Tag: Blogging
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A-list blogger
It appears I am an A-List blogger! Just goes to show they haven’t set the bar very high, have they?!!! Via the blog friends I met at the Brussels blogger’s dinner. I see Pat Phelan blogged about this too.
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Busy couple of days
I have a busy couple of days ahead – expect light posting. – today I have a couple of CIX-related sales meetings – I have an it@cork pre-conference podcast with Eddie Hobbs to edit and publish – tomorrow I have several meetings in Dublin followed by the Netvisionary Awards night – Friday I have an…
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Your top Web 2.0 apps?
If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most? I use: my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress) my Flickr account…
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How to speed up WordPress
In my last post, I was wondering how to fix the issues people were having leaving comments on this site. Attempts to leave comments were timing out and the comments were not being posted. Fortunately I had lots of great suggestions from readers on how to resolve the issues and I think it is now…
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Commenting problems on this site
I have had several reports from people who have had issues trying to leave comments on this site and it concerns me greatly. Conor made six attempts to leave a comment this afternoon (fair dues to his persistence) I initially thought it had to do with the number of comments in my Akismet queue but…
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Arguments against business blogging?
A couple of commenters on a recent post raised issues I hear time and again when I discuss the advantages of blogs for businesses: Blogging has a poor perception Blogging takes too much time Blogging allows people to make negative comments on your site Let’s deal with each of these points: 1. Blogging has a…
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Can Google Reader scale the Great Firewall of China?
Jeremiah Owyang is on a trip to China at the moment. He put up a post on his blog the other day saying he couldn’t access Robert Scoble’s blog from inside China – it seems to be blocked by the Great Firewall of China for some reason. I don’t know if this applies to all…
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Where are the Irish Business Blogs?
In my excitement at being shortlisted for the Netvisionary awards and in coming quite high in Justin’s Technorati-ranked Top 100 Irish blogs, I missed something fundamental – the fact that I am doing well is a very poor reflection on the state of business blogging in Ireland. What do I mean? Well, one of the…