Posts Tagged ‘blogger’
June 21st, 2010
Blogging takes time. Wouldn’t it be great to speed up the time it takes to post articles? Well, thanks to Microsoft’s ‘Windows Live Writer’, posting is a whole lot quicker. And, best of all, this great Blogging tool is free to download and use.
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I have many WordPress Blogs and logging in to each Blog to post takes time. Of course it is possible to paste from a Word document into a new post but this still takes time especially when including an image or video. I have also tried to setup Word 2007 to Blog but the whole ‘Picture Options’ settings (i.e. ‘Upload URL’ and ‘Source URL’) is one of the greatest mysteries known to mankind it seems.
I use the awesome ‘Windows live Mail’ as my default email application and love it for it’s ease of use and ability to manage multiple email accounts so decided to give its cousin, ‘Windows Live Writer’, a go for posting to my various Blogs. Well, I am happy to say that ‘Windows Live Writer’ makes posting a whole lot quicker especially if you have multiple Blogs. All one does is author the post/article and then publish to any number of pre-defined Blogs (and defining the blogs is made very simple). Just remember to enable ‘Atom Publishing Protocol’ and ‘XML-RPC’ in your WordPress install.
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June 4th, 2009
Nielsen this week released comparisons showing the enormous growth in the amount of time spent on the most visited Social Media sites from April 2008 to April 2009. The numbers are truly astounding.
The Social Media / Social Bookmarking / Sharing industry is still in its infancy. We’ll definitely be seeing consolidation and / or functionality expansion in the industry over the next few years. As an example, there are so many Social Bookmarking sites with very few distinguishing features (product differentiation). Think of Delicious, Mister Wong and Backflip; what advantages does one really Read the rest of this entry »
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May 29th, 2009
Almost everyone is affected with email spam. Spam detectors / email filters have improved substantially over the past few years but unfortunately the skills of the spammers have also improved. It is not just businesses involved in the fight against spammers but also governments; The Australian government, for example, is taking spamming and the negative consequences very seriously.
What? Spam isn’t exclusive to Email?
Beyond email there is another very relevant form of spamming; comment and trackback spamming. This form of spamming affects the millions of blogs on the Internet. Most blog posts are open for comments. This means that people are able to comment on the content of the post (look below this post and post a comment if you so wish). Whether using Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, TypePad, Blogger or Read the rest of this entry »
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April 27th, 2009
Sun Microsystems has been acquired by Oracle Corporation (after it looked like Sun would be part of the IBM stable). Of particular interest to many bloggers and corporate Internet Application developers is what will happen with MySQL, the GNU General Public License (GPL) database engine.
A Bit about MySQL
MySQL was acquired by Sun in February 2008 which basically gave the rights of MySQL intellectual property (e.g. documentation) to Sun (which has now been procured by Oracle). MySQL is distribute under GPL therefore is available to download, install and use without financial cost.
MySQL is very widely used particularly for Internet Applications including search engines, content management systems and blogging platforms. High-traffic sites such as WordPress, Google, Wikipedia and Read the rest of this entry »
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January 15th, 2009
A Blog is typically a web page containing articles (often called ‘posts’). Articles are added periodically and most Blogs encourage viewers to comment on the article. The vast majority of Blogs are maintained by individuals (such as this Blog). Blogs are part of what is known as Web 2.0 or Social Media.
Who Reads Blogs?
You read Blogs (this is a Blog post you are reading right now) as well as the majority of people who access the Internet. There are well over 200 million Blogs out there and this number is growing rapidly! Although Blogs started ‘life’ as informal and often very personal, that has changed with major media outlets (e.g. CNN) recognising the benefits of Blogging (see this post for more about mainstream media and Social Media). WordPress.com (who host only approximately 3 million active Blogs) received nine and a half billion pageviews in 2008 (that’s 18,000 pageviews a minute!!!).
How Do I Search for Blogs?
If you search the Web using Google, Live, Yahoo or any other search engine you are already searching Blogs (as well as ‘static’ web pages). There are a number of Blog directories which only return search results from Blogs e.g. icerocket.com and technorati.com.
Who Writes Blogs?
As noted previously, most Blogs are written and maintained by individuals. Some Blogs which started with individuals publishing posts have become extremely popular (e.g. perezhilton.com) and the value of Blogs is increasingly being recognised by large corporates. Blogs are being seen as a formidable Public Relations tool as well as a great means of engaging consumers (some companies even use Blogs to do market research). Dell has been extremely effective in raising its corporate image through it’s Blogging as has the Royal Navy in engaging potential recruits.
How Do I Set Up a Blog?
Blogs are simple and inexpensive to set-up. Common blogging platforms include WordPress (free hosting at wordpress.com), Typepad and Blogger (comparing the various Platforms needs a whole new post so won’t be covered here). The great thing about blogging is that it doesn’t have to be ‘right’ from the start. If you are an individual you can always change your Blog (obviously if you are a corporate you must get it right the first time!!).