Category: Blogging

  • Irish Blog Awards nominations

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    Tom Raftery
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    I’m both deeply honoured and humbled to have been nominated for several Irish Blog Awards. The competition is stiff and I am up against many more deserving blogs/podcasts than my own. Judge for yourself – listed below are the categories in which I have been nominated (twice in the best podcast category). I have italicised…

  • Twenty Major exposes himself?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Looks like Twenty Major has moved over to WordPress as his blogging platform. Good move Twenty! Wonder what Donncha thinks? One thing though – on Blogspot (Twenty’s old blog host) wouldn’t it be easier for Twenty to maintain his anonymity? Although I see the crafty old bugger has gone through Domains by Proxy!

  • Akismet 2.0 is a life (and comment) saver

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    Tom Raftery
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    Akismet is the default anti-spam plugin which comes with WordPress and it has saved me from literally hundreds of thousnads of comment spam messages (124,200 last time I looked). A new version (Akismet 2.0) was released the same time as WordPress 2.1’s release so it’s release was kind of drowned out in the hoopla. To…

  • Why do I blog?

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    Tom Raftery
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    That is the question Darren Barefoot is trying to get answered in his short 16 question survey. There are prizes for participating in the survey and even more prizes for mentioning the survey in your blog (ahem!). I’m not 100% sure why I do it but I imagine there’s a 12 step program… Via Eoin

  • Welcome Eoin

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    Tom Raftery
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    Noted Trinity law lecturer and sometime radio pundit on all things legal, Eoin O’Dell has taken the wrappings off his blog finally! Eoin has been blogging on a private blog for the last several months now but on Friday Eoin took the username and password off his blog and now everyone can read his thoughts…

  • Trying out WordPress 2.1

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    Tom Raftery
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    I upgraded to WordPress 2.1 this morning and the whole process was remarkably painless. The entire process took about ten minutes – the majority of that time was spent on backing up the previous version and FTP’ing the new files into place. Of course, if you are a client of mine and I maintain your…

  • WordPress 2.1 released

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    Tom Raftery
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    WordPress 2.1 has been released. The major features according to the WordPress.org site are: * Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again. * Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post. * The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you…

  • WordPress 2.1 due out later today

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    Tom Raftery
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    The next version of WordPress – version 2.1 is to be released later today and Aaron Brazell has a good post outlining 10 features of WordPress 2.1 you should be aware of. One that I love is the AutoSave feature. I have lost several posts during writing which I wouldn’t have lost if I had…