One of the most wonderful things of being a blogger among wonderful bloggers is our ability to ask other bloggers for help, and their amazing willingness to help - even total strangers. All because we have blogging in common.
When I spent a long month last year writing about WordPress Plugins, I also asked readers [...]
My laptop has reached the four year birthday and I’m ready for a new one. Every computer and laptop I’ve owned I’ve pushed beyond it’s capabilities from day one. I will never forget the first computer my husband and I bought “together”. Within three days, I’d filled the 2 gig hard drive, the largest one [...]
January 26, 2008 – 1:56 pm
I don’t like rumors. I don’t like conspiracies. I like facts. And here is one that has me shaking my knees from CNet, “IE7 coming at you (whether you like it or not)” which says:
With its February 12, 2008, Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft has decided, for security reasons, to push out Internet Explorer 7, even [...]
December 18, 2007 – 4:13 am
It’s almost time for my annual Things I Want Gone from the Web post.
I had quite a list last year, and I’ve been collecting whines, rants, and nags over the past year, but this year, I want to know what you want gone from the web.
Let’s make this a community whine, rant, and nag.
So [...]
October 30, 2007 – 4:23 am
Social Networking Safety Tips by DygiScape is a thought-provoking look at staying safe while participating in social networking services.
It’s no question that social networking Web sites are growing rapidly everyday. This growing trend of sharing yourself more and more online; safety is often overlooked. Setting forth some safety guidelines will benefit the users of social [...]
August 29, 2007 – 6:16 am
by engtech of Internet Duct Tape
Sometimes blogging applications like WordPress and Blogger are too much for what you want — they really are content management systems. Writing long-form content might not be your goal: perhaps you want to communicate with friends, or share links? Blogging has evolved into a culture of long-form articles. Sometimes [...]
August 12, 2007 – 4:05 pm
by engtech of Internet Duct Tape
Having a background in computer engineering has been a great boon to me when it comes to blogging. While I might not be the best at writing, web design, or being on top of the breaking news, I have had an edge from being genuinely interested in the technology [...]
A Content Theft Tale by Jonathan Bailey on the Blog Herald is a brilliant read for those concerned about content theft.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Over here at the Blog Herald, my latest post about the twenty best free anti-plagiarism tools was going over very well. With hundreds of [...]
According to the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) Contract Watch, public features are misusing the DMCA, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which is designed to protect copyrights on the web.
The announcement references a recent Electronic Frontier Foundation press release about a suit brought against a defendant which used the DMCA to request [...]
In case you missed the news, Google’s Webmaster Central announced that in accordance with the new Sitemap.org, you do not have to submit your XML sitemap to Google or other search engines any more. Instead, you can make your sitemap “autodiscoverable” by directing the visiting web crawler to the location of the sitemap.
A sitemap is [...]
Affilitate Tips Site is one of the many abusers and misusers of tags I’ve found. Among the “tags” listed at the very top of the article are:
Tag(s);2007, adsense, american idol, bebo, blog, blogger, blogging, blogging kit, blogging kits, britney spears, bush, current events, digg, foto, galilea montijo, hd dvd, ieia, igoogle, in the news, joost, [...]
Feed are changing how we write links in our blog posts. Have you noticed?
There are two types of links. Absolute links are the most commonly found links in web pages today. They go directly to the source such as:
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/monetizing-wordpress-plugins/
A relative link is one that links relative to the page without the full address, such as [...]
In honor of the Blog Day of Silence, in which I will personally honor victims of needless violence around the world, tomorrow, April 30th, 2007, this blog will be silent.
For information on why I’m doing this, read April 30: A Day of Silence on the Blogosphere and especially Silence is a Memoriam, Not a Reason [...]
Have you gotten more than your fill of all the social bookmarking and networking services around? If not, or you are looking for social networking services beyond the most popular, check out 3 Spots’s All Social That Can Bookmark. It has a weird title but it lists several hundred different types and kinds of social [...]
This should probably be more correctly titled “How to Remove Your Blog Content From Google and Prevent It From Getting There in the First Place”, but that’s a bit long.
Google Webmaster Central offers a variety of techniques to remove your blog content from the Google database and index.
It covers how to use the webmaster [...]
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