On Blogging Australia

Promoting Australian Blogs

This post is part of my lessons learned alphabetical series and follows on from D is for Design.
So… you think you are pretty hot. You’ve got 30 followers on Twitter, FeedBurner tells you that more than a dozen people read every post you write, and your Analytics figures are on an upwards trend.
So you decide […]

Blogging tips

This post is part of my lessons learned alphabetical series and follows on from F is for Friends, G is for Greatness, and H is for Hosting Options.
Inspiration - it is very hard to fake, and without it your blogging days are over. It’s that simple You can fake sincerity with some of the […]

Aussie Blogger

Ben Barden announced the other day that Injader (formerly Majestic) is now Open Source under the GPL license.
While Ben is from the UK (through no fault of his own ), he does now reside in Australia. After three years of closed development, he has decided to open up Injader to a wider audience.
I am […]

Australian Odd

Sometimes, I am not sure that we “North Island” people are fair to the Tasmanians. We joke about inbreeding and closer-than-legal family relationships.
There is a tendency for people to drop Tassie off the map because it spoils the neat rectangular shape of Australia. Case in point, the Aussie Bloggers Forum logo:

I can understand - when […]

Life

I’m doing Movember this year to help battle some nasty men’s health issues - prostate cancer and depression. I just sent this appeal letter out to, well, a lot of people. If you didn’t receive it, it was probably because I didn’t have your email address or didn’t think I knew you well enough.
Dear friend, […]

About

…just going through a weird patch in my life at the moment - the new job that nominally gives me more after-hours space for blogging has been fairly intense. So I have more downtime but less motivation to blog somehow
C is for Content (the third in the alphabet series) has been half-written for […]