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C is for Content

By AndrewBoyd • Jun 8th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

Following on the trail of A is for Akismet and B is for Blogging Platform, here are my thoughts on what I’ve learned over the last 12 months about writing blog Content.
What it all comes down to is this - no matter how cool your theme is, or how great your advertising strategy is, or […]



WordPress 2.3 is falling to bits

By AndrewBoyd • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

I’ve written a fair bit lately about WordPress 2.5. Whatever the issues are, I think it is fair to say that some people just don’t like it.
A lot of these same people are staying with WordPress 2.3.3 while they wait for version 2.6 to come out.
There is a cost to staying with WordPress 2.3.3 or […]



Injader: An Australian Open Source Blog Platform

By AndrewBoyd • Jun 1st, 2008 • Category: Aussie Blogger, Recent posts

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 […]



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 […]



B is for Blogging Platform

By AndrewBoyd • Apr 26th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

Following on from A is for Akismet, I thought I would look at blogging platforms.
I wrote a rough guide to different blogging platforms in Get a real blog: Finding the right blogging platform - things have changed a little since November 2007.
This article contains some of the changes to existing platforms and also covers some […]



A is for Akismet

By AndrewBoyd • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

The blogiversary for Facibus Reviews has come and gone, and I am reflecting on lessons learned after a year of fairly intense blogging.
I’m starting a new series today to pass on some of the things I’ve noticed from the wonderful world of blogging: an A-Z of blog tips.
A is for Akismet.

While I’ve not been a […]



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 […]



WordPress 2.5: Broken under OSX

By AndrewBoyd • Mar 31st, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

…I wasn’t making it up at all.
Like a good web citizen, I reported the issues I was having with WordPress 2.5 (as discussed in WordPress 2.5: Its here, its queer, it wants another beer!) to the WordPress forums in the thread Visual Editor in 2.5.
This is the reply I got from Otto42, one of the […]



WordPress 2.5: Its here, its queer, it wants another beer!

By AndrewBoyd • Mar 30th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

…or something like that.
Those of you who follow my blog know that I am not a huge fan of the admin interface changes in WordPress 2.5. In WordPress 2.5: Perhaps I was wrong I even got a little abusive. So today, when I learned that it was out, I upgraded a couple of my blogs […]



Categorisation 101 for Bloggers

By AndrewBoyd • Mar 23rd, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

There has been a bit of discussion lately on the Aussie Bloggers Forum about categories and tags: when to use categories as opposed to tags, and how to make each of them useful.

Categorisation: a basic human need
People are categorisation engines - we categorise experiences so that we can learn from them and deal with them. […]