CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

Six Apart has just announced that they’ve added a new feature to TypePad – ‘Widgets’. I’ll let them explain: What’s a Widget, you ask? It could be a list of your most recent photos, or a topic-oriented search box, or a stats counter, or ads that help you make money, ...more

The Official Google Blog was unavailable a couple of days back. This sent loads of rumors around that perhaps Blogger.com had been hacked. The real story was that they deleted their own blog. If Google can do it – anyone can. Do you have a blog backup strategy? Update – ...more

Blogging tool, ecto, has just released it’s 2.0 beta version at ecto for Windows 2.0 Beta. New features in this version include: WYSIWYG editing. Upload caching and setting presets. Automatic download and installation of .Net Framework during ecto’s installation. Many small UI improvement. I can’t tell you much more than ...more

Regular readers will notice that my email subscription submission form at the top of my left hand menu has changed. This is because I’m beta testing a new email newsletter service called Zookoda which is designed specifically for bloggers wanting to offer their readers a way to subscribe to their ...more

Yet another place for Aussie bloggers to submit their URLs and RSS feeds to at the new Aussie Blog Search at Gnoos.

I’ve been meaning to check out Myspace for myself for the last few months and this weekend I actually took the 10 minutes necessary to set myself up an account at www.myspace.com/darrenrowse. I’m not sure what I was expecting from it but it all seems a little underwhelming so far. ...more

Alexa has just added a new ‘feature’ to it’s service that show ‘other sites owned’ by the same people as the site being featured. So for ProBlogger it shows two other sites – gambling watch and idolblog (see screen cap below). I see two problems with this. Firstly some might ...more

Regan over at the Commonwealth Games Review blog (while I have some blogs at that domain I’m not involved in this one) has developed a Free Medal Table for the Games for bloggers to put on their websites. The top 10 medal winning countries will be updated automatically (expect to ...more

Back at the end of December, I wrote an article for ProBlogger entitled 10 Things You Should Know about WordPress 2.0. Three(ish) months and 2 security/bugfix releases laters, I think WordPress 2.x deserves another look – a follow up, if you will. Importers In December, I raved about the rewriting ...more