CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

Last week I asked readers to submit to our poll the blog platform that they use. The results were similar to last time we ran it with WordPress.org (36%) a clear winner, Blogger.com (25%) coming in second and WordPress.com (15%) coming in third. That these three platforms take up 76% ...more

This is just a short note to withdraw a recommendation that I made a year or two ago about the Zookoda email service. When they first came out Zookoda was a dream come true for me – a free service that enabled bloggers to built a newsletter subscriber base, convert ...more

SixApart (the company behind Movable Type) has announced a new product that extends MT4 called Movable Type Community Solution. This new product looks like it takes MT into a social networking kind of direction and incorporates a long list of features including: Member Profiles: Registered members of your community can ...more

I’ve written previously about my love for the Comment Spam plugin Akismet (and how it’s literally saved me months of work). Of course it’s not perfect and does let some spam through – so today when I read on the Akismet blog that they’ve got a competitor launching (Defensio) I ...more

Has Technorati stopped indexing blogs? I just logged in and don’t see any of my favorites having updated in 23 hours. Not only that I can’t see any blogs having updated in 23 hours – even blogs who post heaps – like Engadget. In fact none of the blogs in ...more

I bought Apple Mac OS X Version 10.5 aka Leopard today and am in updating mode. I’ve got it up and running reasonably smoothly – although it’s going to take a little while to get used to it all. Two issues/problems have surfaced so far: 1. Mail.app isn’t working on ...more

The Google Analytics team posted about some upcoming Announcements on their blog today. New features are coming to Google Analytics including: tracking of site search – ‘find out what people search for on your site and where these searches lead’ Event Tracking capability – reports ‘designed to help you understand ...more

The biggest single time saver in my blogging is a plugin that many of us take for granted – but which has literally saved me days and days of time. What it’s done for me can be summed up in this little screen capture taken from the back end of ...more

A quick question for WordPress users: WordPress Plugins – which ones do you use? 18 months ago in a post titled (I’ll show you mine if you show me yours) I shared the WP Plugins I used and asked readers to tell us which WordPress plugins they used. The response ...more