Category: blogs

  • WordPress/FeedBurner lose my subscribers

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    Tom Raftery
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    Really odd but since I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 the number of subscribers to my blog has roughly halved. Today it is reading 632. It hasn’t been below 1,000 in at least 6 months never mind down at the 600 mark. I realise that this is likely due to my moving to the newer FeedBurner…

  • WordPress 2.3 upgrade breaks RSS feed

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    Tom Raftery
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    Sean McNamara alerted me via the comments on this blog that my RSS feed was broken (thanks a million Sean). I sorted that out this morning so it should be good again and Google Reader is certainly having no problem seeing my posts now. So what happened? To be honest, I’m not entirely sure (!)…

  • WordPress 2.3 gotchas (or got me's!)

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    Tom Raftery
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    Phew! Finally done with that install – ouch! I wouldn’t want to go through that again in a hurry. I hit several speed bumps in my upgrading of this blog from WordPress 2.2 to 2.3 – many of those could have been avoided if I had followed the instructions on the Extended Upgrade page instead…

  • Donncha in Photo exhibition

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    Tom Raftery
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    Mallow Camera Club are holding an exhibition of photographs in Mallow Town Library for charity for the next three weeks and fellow blogger, photo blogger and WordPress lead developer, Donncha O’Caoimh will have one of his photos in the exhibition for sale – well done Donncha. Head along if you get a chance, it is…

  • Adblock – love it or hate it?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I wrote a post the other day talking about a blogger who stopped all Firefox users from visiting his site because they may have the Adblock plugin installed! Adblock is a plug-in for Firefox which allows you to view sites on the Internet but avoid seeing the ads they display. I am a big fan…

  • Site owner blocks Firefox users!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I saw this story on Techmeme this morning and I simply couldn’t believe it – but it is true! A guy called Danny Carlton has decided to block ALL Firefox users from his site because: The Mozilla Foundation and its Commercial arm, the Mozilla Corporation, has allowed and endorsed Ad Block Plus, a plug-in that…

  • Google Reader quick comments

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have now completely moved over to using Google Reader as my primary RSS reader. And it appears I am in good company! I started using it regularly while on holidays on my phone and I grew to like it – particularly the ability to Star and Share posts. Now I’m using it full-time, not…

  • BlogTalk 2008 to be held in Cork?

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    Tom Raftery
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    BlogTalk is a big international conference around the Social Media space. The last BlogTalk conference was in Vienna and featured speakers such as Danah Boyd, Suw Charman, and Matt Mullenweg. Thomas Burg, John Breslin and I are going to see if we can organise the next BlogTalk conference for Early March 2008 in Cork. All…