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Make a Facebook Fan Page

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November 14th, 2007
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Blogging News, Business of Blogging, WordPress

Why You Need to Make a Facebook Fan Page for Your Website NOW!: An interesting bunch of reasons why you should have a Facebook page for your blog or website. Sadly, I get addicted easily and once I got into Facebook, I could not stop. I created a page for this blog, created my profile and then started looking at their API which is incredible. It is a lot of fun to dabble in Facebook apps. Also, while I am at it, I apologize to the people that received a friend request (and either did not want to add me or were surprised by the request). My address book import did not go so well. Please ignore the request if you like. If you have a Facebook page and would like some exposure, please leave a comment here or on the Facebook page for Weblog Tools Collection. Do you have […]

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Ten Reasons to choose WordPress

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November 11th, 2007
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Blogging, WordPress

I cherish the ability to communicate and I try to praise and imitate those who have the ability to communicate ideas lucidly and with alacrity. With that intent in mind, here are the Ten Reasons to choose WordPress. Aimed at the non-technical, could-be blogger, I could not have created a more succinct and convincing list myself. I first found WordPress back when b2 was still alive, and had the WordPress bug bite me the minute I downloaded the zip file. I have not looked back since. What are your reasons for using WordPress?

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OS X WordPress Comment Moderation Notifier

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WordPress Comment Moderation Notifier for OS X: After Matt made the post about the Windows system tray based comment moderation notifier for WordPress, Edward Dale wrote up a Python script to the same effect and used Growl to notify the user. There are instructions in the download.

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Blogstheme.com WARNING

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I would like to warn readers and WordPress users to NOT download themes from sites that have not developed the themes themselves. I urge news sites to link back to the original theme author’s download to keep things safe and consistent. There are too many sites out there distributing “premium WordPress themes for free” and their intentions are not good. This particular warning is thanks to an astute reader who pointed out another such site called blogstheme.com. They also provide “premium WordPress themes for free” but have modified the footer to suit themselves. The “WordPress” link in the footer of every theme distributed by that site links back to blogstheme.com and the downloads are not pristine as intended by the designers of the themes. The footers are also tainted with sponsored links that the original authors did not put there. I see a whole bunch of Small Potato’s themes on […]

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WordPress powers 0.8% of the Web

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November 8th, 2007
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Blogging News, LinkyLoo, WordPress

WordPress founder looks into blogging’s future at BlogWorld Las Vegas: He recently saw a survey from Google, in which the search giant examined all of the http headers of Web. He found that .8 percent of those pages were powered by WordPress. Writeup on Matt’s opening keynote at the BlogWorld Expo at Las Vegas this morning.

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Defensio Comment Spam Prevention

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November 7th, 2007
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Blogging News, WordPress Plugins

Defensio Comment Spam Prevention: TechCrunch had a writeup on Defensio this morning and it is mostly an unbiased review of the features, benefits and weaknesses of Defensio as it stacks up beside Akismet. I had to check it out for myself. Here are some thoughts. Defensio is a spam prevention tool much like Akismet that seems to be aimed directly at the Akismet audience. Even the back end of the WordPress plugin seems to be Akismet-esque with the requirements of an API password for use. You sign up for the service, wait for an email, download the plugin, install, activate, add API key and then sit back. The major benefits touted over Akismet was a more streamlined ability to moderate comments by spamminess rather than date, and an open API that much like Akismet, can be used to check spamminess of any commenting system. The service also (apparently) adapts itself […]

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Simplified AdSense Management

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November 6th, 2007
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Blogging News, LinkyLoo

Simplified ad management is rolling out now: The AdSense team had given everyone a sneak peek into their new AdSense management interface with which a publisher could tweak some of the parameters of an AdSense block without having to change the code. It is relatively simple to import your AdSense code from existing blocks and then tweak the settings. Changes take upto a minute to display and you cannot change the size of the block through this new interface. Look for it under the “Manage Ads” menu at the top when you are logged into AdSense. Have you used it yet? Do you like it?

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Saturday Subscriber Count Drop?

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November 4th, 2007
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Blogging News, LinkyLoo

Saturday Subscriber Count Drop?: If you were wondering what caused a huge drop in your subscriber count this morning in the Feedburner chicklet, their blog has an explanation. I figured Google was not returning their numbers correctly since subscriber details showed none from Google. The whole Feedburner chicklet thing is a little very narcissistic and might be less valuable/reliable than most of us would like to believe, but I am a sucker for stats. PS: Mr. Cashmore, you need a search form that is easy to find.

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Be More Than a Blip in the Blogosphere

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November 3rd, 2007
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HOW-TO, LinkyLoo

The Washington Post has an article called Be More Than a Blip in the Blogosphere which is on how to make your blog more popular. I used to like linking to a couple of these in a month but lately “write a better blog” articles have turned into “how to make affiliate money online”. This one from the Washington Post however, is down to earth and easy to read and follow, which are important qualities in How To articles.

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