Category Archives: blogging

publishing for the future

Let’s say, I need to publish content that should be accessible in 10 or 20 years, or more. A good example might be a kid’s blog, created by its parents: they probably want to share the content with a couple … read more →

why blog pagination URL structure needs restructuring

The most popular convention on how to represent a blog pagination URL is that the home page is page 1. These are the latest, let’s say, 10 articles. Then you have page 2, where the next 10 most recent articles … read more →

Google CSE in blogger.com

Well, it turns out that my idea is old news Google Custom Search Blog explains to add a CSE box in blogger.com. I’m working on the WP plugin.

Google intergates FeedBurner in Blogspot

Blogger feeds can now be transparently redirected to FeedBurner. That was an easy one, not something spectacular, but definitely useful. Still… – waiting for FeedBurner and Google Analytics integration – waiting for FeedBurner and AdSense integration BTW, shouldn’t WordPress.com provide … read more →

blogging platforms + OpenID

I like the fact you can log in to LiveJournal.com using OpenID but most of all I love that you can leave comments using OpenID. OpenID is so far the best way to “sign” your comments, to prove that a … read more →

The Law of Blog Comments

Here is an interesting Law for Blog Comments as described at gr.yet.anotherblog.net. Since the law is expressed in Greek, I will try to translate: As the number of comments N to a (blog) post increases, the possibility that the subset … read more →

On Blogosphere Growth

The Technorati Weblog has an interesting article On Blogosphere Growth. It looks like Technorati’s index is doubling in size every 5.5 months! An other interesting mesure is the number of posts: … about 50.000 per hour. An other interesting point … read more →

A-blogging: It’s not (just) what you know, it’s who you know

Newsome.org has a great article on why making it in the blogosphere is really hard nowdays: Unfortunately, like the real world, sometimes the blogosphere is about who you know as much as what you know. Read the full article. This … read more →

Yahoo! WordPress hosting

According to this, Yahoo! Small Business, Yahoo! now offers WP hosting. Their prices look nice. I was just wondering, could someone who is already using the service tell me how much freedom you get? I mean, can I add my … read more →

Structured Blogging

Here is a nice idea: Structured Blogging. It looks like microformats or something, but with a couple of plugins already available for Typead and WordPress. Paul Kedrosky says that Structured Blogging Will Flop, the reason is simple, people are too … read more →