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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. […]



WordPress 2.5: Perhaps I was wrong

By AndrewBoyd • Mar 18th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

…and it does totally suck.
The WordPress blog has announced that the “Lite” version that I spoke about in WordPress 2.5 Alpha: It doesn’t totally suck is going to be adopted. Sadly, they seem proud of it.
Here’s what I had to say about it on the Aussie Bloggers Forum:
“We’ve cut the number of navigation options by […]



Show us ya map of Tasmania!

By AndrewBoyd • Mar 17th, 2008 • Category: Australian Odd, Recent posts

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 […]



Thanks Meg

By AndrewBoyd • Mar 10th, 2008 • Category: Current Feature, Recent posts

Meg from Dipping Into The Blogpond has handed me this friendship ball:

It reads:
A ball is a circle, no beginning, no end
It keeps us together like our circle of friends.
But the treasure inside for you to see
is the treasure of friendship you’ve granted to me.
Today I pass the friendship ball to you.
While it might sound a […]



Useful Blog Resources

By AndrewBoyd • Mar 9th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

I’ve started creating a list of useful blog resources - things that I have found helpful.
As I mention on the directory page, the list has a long way to go - I am going back through old posts and adding new things as I come across them - it is a big job, because there […]



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 […]



Polyblogging: Link Self Love (Don’t be embarrassed, everybody does it!)

By AndrewBoyd • Mar 5th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

The following was originally published on Polyblogging: Tips for Managing Multiple Blogs.
 
 

In Polyblogging: Basic principles I talked about sharing the link love with yourself.
Don’t be embarrassed, everybody does it. Despite what your mother told you, it will not make you blind
What do I mean by sharing the link love with yourself?
While some may feel […]