Tag: Blogging

  • Scoble switches to WordPress

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    I see Robert Scoble is switching to WordPress as his blogging engine of choice – way to go Robert! His new WordPress-powered blog will be on the hosted WordPress site WordPress.com at the address http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/. Although this site uses WordPress, I haven’t tried the hosted version of WordPress so I can’t comment on how different…

  • The lighter side of blogging

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    The cartoon below by Alex Gregory appeared in the New Yorker on Sept 12th and is now doing the rounds of the blogosphere. Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker and president of the Cartoon Bank service, which is owned by the New Yorker said of this cartoon: While many cartoons on blogs have…

  • Yahoo! tests blog search in Korea

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    I see News.com have a story showing that Yahoo! are beta testing a blog search application in their Korean Yahoo! site. Apparently Yahoo is planning to begin testing the same capabilities for its U.S. blog-publishing service in the coming weeks. This is all very timely considering Dave’s taking me to task for dismissing Yahoo! recently!…

  • 3 Ireland should have a blog – cont'd

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    Michele has written an interesting follow-up to the articles I wrote yesterday on 3 Ireland’s launch here and here. In Michele’s article he compares 3’s launch here with their launch in Italy back in 2002: Prior to the launch in Italy in 2002 the marketing spend was gigantic. Their marketing department had a pre-launch budget…

  • Do you allow comments on your blog?

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    Do you allow comments in your blog? Most bloggers do, but you get the occasional bloggers who don’t, and you have to wonder, why not? What are they afraid of? Receiving feedback from blog readers is a great way to learn from people you might otherwise never come across. A blog without comments is just…

  • Test post from WordPressDash

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    This is a test post from WordPressDash – WordPressDash is a Dashboard widget for Mac OS X 10.4 (a.k.a Tiger) which allows you to create and upload posts for your WordPress blog from the Dashboard. In theory this is very cool – and it looks very cool, but in practice, it lacks a lot of…

  • Podcast using WordPress

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    Chris J Davis has posted a very simple 3 step tutorial on how to Podcast using WordPress. Chris’ first step brought Audacity to my attention for the first time – Audacity is an Open Source Cross-Platform application for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating…

  • Blogging for Business – the review

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    Last night’s Blogging for Business event was a great success according to all the feedback I have received – this despite a number of setbacks: Richard Delevan rang me to tell me that he had been in a car crash, had missed his train and was going to be late for the event (he was…