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I’m still alive

By AndrewBoyd • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: About, Life, Recent posts

…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 […]



Recent posts

By AndrewBoyd • Apr 6th, 2008 • Category: About, Recent posts

Sue sent me a message this morning - she was concerned that she might be missing some recent posts and suggested that there be a list of them.
I couldn’t agree more
I am pleased to announce that the recently popular category has now become recent posts. You can find them underneath the current feature […]



ReviewMe: Review This!

By AndrewBoyd • Mar 6th, 2008 • Category: About, Recent posts

I received this email from the ReviewMe crew yesterday, a couple of weeks after submitting this blog to their program:
Hello Andrew Boyd,
We are sorry but the website you have suggested http://onblogging.com.au has been declined at this time. The main reasons a website is declined are:
- The website is a suspected fake.
- The website does not […]



A farewell to the old theme…

By AndrewBoyd • Jan 31st, 2008 • Category: About, Recent posts

…and welcome to the new!
The old K2 theme served On Blogging Australia faithfully for the last five months.

The time has come to try something different - welcome to the new look
I’ll write about how I did this the easy way as soon as I can. In the mean while, please enjoy, and […]



On Blogging Australia - The MindMap

By AndrewBoyd • Jan 19th, 2008 • Category: About, Blogging tips

I’ve been trying to keep within my niche here without really defining it past “Aussie bloggers and Aussie blogs”. I thought it might be worth thinking about it in a little more detail.
I use mindmaps a lot in my consulting work - they are a good way of illustrating hierarchical things like information structures and […]



Merry Christmas all

By AndrewBoyd • Dec 25th, 2007 • Category: About

…9AM and we’re into the bubbly already here - Donna made Potato Rosti with Smoked Salmon and Mustard Dressing for breakfast, I’ll put a full roundup of the day’s indulgences on my personal blog when the day is done.
Wishing you all a safe and happy holiday season - watch the traffic and the drink/drivers […]



Hello Cayman Islands!

By AndrewBoyd • Oct 31st, 2007 • Category: About

Here’s a weird thing. According to Alexa, my highest traffic rank is not from Australia, but from the Cayman Islands.
You can see this for yourself - go to Alexa.com and do a search on traffic rankings for onblogging.com.au. Down the bottom of this screen are national traffic rankings - here is what I am this […]



Despite my best efforts…

By AndrewBoyd • Oct 30th, 2007 • Category: About, Blogging tips

…to blog hardly at all owing to the personal stuff, my RSS readership is growing, as is my pagerank and Technorati rank.
Why is this so? Is the cult of daily posting wrong? Or do I just have lots of friends that visit my blog regardless?
I think that the answer is a little of both. I […]



Blogging the personal stuff

By AndrewBoyd • Oct 24th, 2007 • Category: About, Blogging tips

I haven’t posted a lot lately. Work has been busy, and, well, there’s been some personal stuff going on.
Over the last few months I’ve seen a lot of brave Australian Blogs Community members discuss some very personal things - mental issues, physical and emotional abuse they suffered as a child, the deaths of close relatives, […]



Hello Australia!

By AndrewBoyd • Aug 6th, 2007 • Category: About

I’ve just had a big weekend.
Stuck at home with a nasty cold, I found the Australian Blogs Community at BUMPzee, Meg’s Top 100 Australian Blogs (and her BlogPond blog), and the long-running RiotACT community (running for seven years right here in Canberra). I also discovered Laurel Papworth’s Bloggerati.com.au ranking site.
This inspired me to look at […]