CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

Rachel’s done a fascinating little comparison between 5 blog platforms using the new Google Trends tool. The following graph plots the amount of people searching for each platform in Google since 2004. See if you can work out which platform is which before you head over to Rachel’s blog to ...more

Does anyone have any suggestions about services to manage the sale of e-products. I’ve had a number of people recommend Ultimate Affiliate Manager which I’m toying with the idea of trying out but I’m interested to see what others have used. Ultimately I’m in the market for a product that ...more

One of the new tools released by Google yesterday was Google Trends which opens up their Zeitgeist service to enable users to graph the search trends for different keywords since January 2004. I’m sure this will be a tool used by bloggers quite a bit as it will enable to ...more

This post has been submitted by regular contributor – Aaron Brazell For the most part, when people talk about blogging they are talking about a very conventional style of communication which describes what most of us are used to – a top-down, linear mostly text medium. While this is the ...more

Mike’s post at Business Logs announcing their latest design project (a redesign of A Socialite’s Life) has an interesting commentary comparing Movable Type and WordPress – specifically with the dynamic nature of WP and the need to ‘rebuild’ MT. ‘I now realize why larger weblogs are switching to WordPress — ...more

Zookoda (the Australian RSS to email system that I use for my newsletter) has been working over the last few weeks on a new version of it’s service which it’s releasing today – Zookoda 2.0. Tech Crunch has the announcement here (although doesn’t really mention any of the new features ...more

Jonic writes a post well worth reading, especially for new bloggers, at Are you skewing your own website stats?: ‘Almost everyone who has their own website loves checking their stats to find out how it’s doing, especially those of us who are in the business of blogging. For some it ...more

I’m a very big fan of FeedBurner (I’m using a variety of their services on multiple blogs) but fivecentnickel has shared a story today that it’s probably worth sharing as a precaution in a post titled FeedBurner Leaked my Sensitive Personal Information. Knowing some of the FB team I know ...more

TypePad Hacks reports that TypePad have updated their comment spam protection to allow bloggers to ban specific words and URLS. This is an update of the previous version of this feature which had problems because if you entered words that were part of other words it was a little over ...more