CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

Max Limpag shares part of his blogging workflow and how he uses Wridea to help him take blog posts from an idea stage to a ‘publish’ stage. His style is to work on a post over time and so finds Wridea useful to keep track of where he’s up to. ...more

I’m a big fan of Mike Rundle’s writing and his latest work at Business Logs is a good example of his common sense approach to blogging. Today he’s written about Coattail Riding Instructions For YouTube and gives 3 “Don’ts” and 3 “Do’s” for adding video to a blog. Here’s his ...more

LifeHacker ran a reader poll last week on what desktop blog editors bloggers are using. The results showed that just over 60% don’t use any. It was a close race after that with Performancing’s Firefox extension winning out with 11.7% and w.bloggar coming in second at 10.2%. Ecto, Qumana (I ...more

One of the things you find when you use a tool like 103bees to check your incoming search engine traffic is that some people find your blog as a result of both them and you misspelling words. I remember early in my blogging that I had one post that was ...more

Is anyone else using the Akismet comment spam filter getting hit big time by spam today? I’m not sure if it’s down, whether someone’s found a way past it or whether I’m just getting a massive attack and the normal small % of spam is getting through – but for ...more

103bees is a free tool for analyzing inbound search engine traffic. As with most tools of this nature you use it by adding a small piece of javascript code to your template and it then goes to work analyzing what SE the traffic is from, what keywords they come to ...more

Dr Dave has written a warning for WordPress users regarding a possible security problem. He doesn’t go into details (probably a good thing) but warns people to turn off the ‘Anyone can Register’ option on your WP blog and delete any guests that you’re unsure of. He writes: “Leaving it ...more

Ooh – looks like Apple have just announced a new Bluetooth Wireless Mighty Mouse. I’ve been waiting for this one for a while to add to my blogging head quarters.

coComment has announced an update to their blog comment tracking system. The improvements include: The cocoCrawler – keeps an eye on your conversations for you Track This Conversation – track conversations even if you don’t participate in them Meta Conversation – Lets you comment on a web page that has ...more