Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Michael, a contract worker for Microsoft, found it humorous that Microsoft had a whole palette of Apple Macintosh computers delivered to his building (presumably for software testing) and took a picture of it and posted it to his blog. His supervisor told him "[I]t’s your site on your own server, you have the right to […]

Halley asks a great question: Out of the 100 Most Influential Bloggers, how many are women? 3? It’s clear that the top male bloggers are not denying women their blogroll inks, for the most part. Still we are almost invisible and I want to know why. What are we doing wrong? Are we not publishing […]

What’s more appealing to a loathsome spammer than a webpage that they can post anything they want to? That’s how they see blogs and their comments they use to promote themselves and vandalize your website. Bloggers have fought back with tools to fight programs that scan the net looking for blogs they can spam comments […]

Matt tells how he turned his obsession with Tivo into a profitable website: Be passionate and write your ass off Don’t start a blog just to turn a buck, because it’s going to be clear to your audience that you don’t really care about the topic if you don’t offer much beyond press releases from […]

Joe Clark has a great info page on debunking the objections registrars have to weblogs receiving International Standard Serial Numbers. Evidently some registering bodies are rejecting bloggers’ applications for ISSNs. This page is part of Joe’s larger resource on blogs and ISSNs: (via Zeldman) For the first time in history, A.J. Liebling’s maxim that freedom […]

How Publishing with Your Own Blog Tool on Your Own Site Works

How Publishing with Blogger to Your Own Host Works

FreeRoller is a free, simple and quick blogging tool powered by the Roller Weblogger tool. Hosting is free as well. FreeRoller homepage · http://www.freeroller.net/ Testing area: How the blog looks to readers · http://www.freeroller.net/page/weblogging101/Weblog Login and edit a default installation of this tool (username: weblogging101, password: pilot) · http://www.freeroller.net/login.jsp

How Publishing with Blogger to Blog*Spot Works

A weblog (or ‘blog’ for short) is an easily, instantly and frequently updated website focused around a topic, industry or personality. A weblog consists of dated entries (called ‘posts’) that highlight captivating and useful stuff that you’ve found online – and your opinion about it. If you can send an email, you can publish a […]