Category: Blogging

  • Bad Behaviour updated

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    Tom Raftery
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    Via James comes news that the anti-spam plugin Bad Behaviour has been updated to version 2.0.4 – if you use this plugin (and you should if you have a php based site) then you need to get the most up-to-date version. You can download Bad Behaviour here.

  • I aspire to goldfish attention!!!

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    I was having an IM conversation with Dennis Howlett the other day and we were discussing how the blogosphere’s echo chamber effect can serve to inflate blogger’s egos. For example, in the offline world how many people do you know who have ever heard of Robert Scoble? Dennis asked me: name me 3 journalists you…

  • Remove this blog from irishblogs

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    Tom Raftery
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    Dear Roger of Irishblogs – I have been having problems with my blog’s listing in search engines wwhich may be due to your practices. please remove this blog from your feed list for irishblogs (and corkblogs) until you: Stop caching content on corkblogs and Until corkblogs and irishblogs uses the original post URLs rather than…

  • Irishblogs.ie wrecking my buzz?

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    I wrote an article on Microsoft’s IE7 earlier today but it didn’t show up in a couple of places I’d have expected to have seen it. Curious, I did a bit of looking around. I searched several search engines and was surprised to find that in Google’s BlogSearch, not alone does my article not appear,…

  • How not to complain

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    Michele Neylon put up a post last night, ostensibly about how not to do PR, but really it was about how some of his competitors are getting legalistic with clients. I think. The post was one of the more cryptic posts I have read in a long time. Seemingly someone somewhere, who may be a…

  • Congratulations Robert

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    Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s most prominent blogger is leaving Microsoft to join John Furrier’s PodTech.net. Robert himself has said that I love Microsoft and Microsoft did not lose me — at least as a supporter and friend. I am not throwing away my Tablet PC or my Xbox or my other Microsoft stuff So his departure…

  • WordPress update to v2.03

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    WordPress have announced that version 2.03 has been released. This version contains Small performance enhancements Movable Type / Typepad importer fix Enclosure (podcasting) fix The aforementioned security enhancements (nonces) I updated this blog a few minutes ago and all seems well! The update was straightforward enough – ftp into the site, delete old files, upload…

  • Automating the backup of your blog

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    Tom Raftery
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    I had a couple of hosting issues a week or so ago which got me to thinking (worrying!) about backing up the content of this blog. Fortunately WordPress 2.x ships with a backup plugin builtin. Unfortunately, I had failed to get the plugin to work previously and hadn’t persevered. Now, I decided, was the time…