Archive for October, 2007
Wordpress Parent Acquires Gravatar
Automattic, the company that is behind Wordpress the the popular spam control tool Akismet, has announced their decision to purchase Gravatar, a start-up that creates an avatar for users that appears on all blogs with Gravatar installed when that user makes a comment. With Wordpress purchase of the company, we can expect to see the technology […]
125×125 Ads Right for Your Blog?
Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger.net wrote a great post today about 125×125 pixel ads. As he points out, hundreds of blogs are using this ad format in their sidebar and many are having a lot of success with it. The article covers a lot of the Pros and Cons of this ad form and is […]
BlogAction Day 2007
Today, October 15th, 2007, is BlogAction Day, a day when thousands of bloggers take some time to post about the environment. Earlier today, I read an article about how Richard Branson and his Virgin Group are looking to use biofuels soon on their airplanes. They plan to start testing next year and expand from there. This […]
Wordpress Themes - Smashing
I love new Wordpress Themes so every now and then I will post about a great new theme. That being said if you have created a theme or really like a theme, let us know using our contact page. In the main time, today’s theme is the new Smashing Theme. Created by Design Disease, the […]
41 Common Blogging Mistakes from Performancing
Performancing has a great post today entitled 41 Reasons Why Your Blog Probably Sucks. The article is a huge list of common mistakes that many bloggers make. These mistakes are classified into categories such as Blog Design and Architecture, Content+Schedule, Planning, Promotion, and others. It is definetely an article worth bookmarking and one that nmew […]
Spell Check Your Posts - Google Toolbar
Here is just a quick friendly tip for all bloggers - use spell check. A lot of times, bloggers rush to be the first to publish a post (especially with news stories) and don’t take the time to spellcheck their post, ending up with many spelling and grammar errors.
SO, if you do not currently spell […]
Video AdSense is Here
There is a post today on the Inside AdSense blog talking about AdSense video and its integration with YouTube. AdSense has teamed up with a number of different video content providers and will serve videos related to your blog’s niche wherever you embed the video ad code. The ad units will appear as YouTube videos […]
The Most Important Wordpress Plug-In….Ever
You want to know what Wordpress plug-in is so vital it should be installed on every blog? A plug-in that can save you MONTHS of work? A plug-in that already comes installed with Wordpress?
Akismet Spam Control.
Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger.net made a post today of how this plug-in has caught over 2,000,000 spam comments on […]
