Category: Blogging

  • Blog training course commences

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    I’m just about to kick off the first of the it@cork blog training events – there are five training sessions between now and October 23rd. Hopefully I won’t totally bore the pants off the attendees and we’ll get some new and interesting blogs emerging from the course!

  • Light posting this week

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    Because I am addressing an internal Microsoft meeting in Switzerland on Wednesday, posting will be light this week. And as I have signed an NDA, there will be no details of the Microsoft meeting posted.

  • Cork blogger meetup

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    Pat Phelan is organising a blogger dinner/meetup to coincide with the visit to Cork of Shel Israel and Rick Segal in October. The dinner is on in the Taste of Thailand restaurant, Bridge Street, Cork on October 17th at 8pm. Leave a comment on Pat’s site if you want to attend. I know I’ll be…

  • Ryder Cup blog

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    I’m delighted to see that all my nagging of my old friend John Prendergast has paid off and he has started a blog! However, I wouldn’t have been more surprised if it was about crochet! I never knew John was a closet golf fan. John’s is the Ryder Cup blog (the Ryder cup is the…

  • Heading off

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    We (my family and I) are heading off to Spain (on a house swap holiday) so there will be no posting to this blog for a couple of weeks (the house we are getting doesn’t have broadband)! Don’t anyone turn off the Internet while I’m gone!!!

  • Speed up posting to WordPress

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    via Pat Phelan comes a nifty WordPress plugin which speeds up posting from WordPress blogs. Called WP-No Ping Wait, the plugin works by waiting until after the post has been posted before alerting the pinging services! Nice one, thanks Pat. UPDATE – this plugin has caused issues on a number of sites I manage so…

  • Bad Behaviour blocks TechMeme

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    Tom Raftery
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    I noticed recently that none of my posts were appearing on TechMeme so I emailed Gabe Rivera, TechMeme’s founder to ask what the problem was. He responded: Your Bad Behavior plugin is blocking me, even though my crawler behavior is rather benign. If you can whitelist my crawler (does BB let you?), it looks like…

  • Awstats vs. Webalizer – lies, damn lies and statistics!

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    Tom Raftery
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    My hosting company is running two different web stats programs on the log files for this site – Webalizer and Awstats. Same log files – you’d think they’d come up with something like similar results – not a chance! In the Webalizer stats I am wildly popular: Ok, maybe not wildly popular but when you…