CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

Six Apart (the creators of TypePad and Movable Type) have today announced two new business oriented blogging products – ‘TypePad Business Class’ (a hosted service aimed at companies with high-traffic Web sites) and ‘Movable Type Enterprise’. Their press release explains further: ‘According to Six Apart, TypePad Business Class offers advanced ...more

A few months back I installed a WordPress plugin that allowed readers to tick a box when leaving a comment to be notified via email when more comments on that post came in. The idea behind the plugin is a great one – it extends the conversation on posts beyond ...more

Ether is a start up that I think will interest many Pro Bloggers – especially those looking for a way to do consulting online. It has a range of services (remember it’s in beta) available but the one that interests me most is the ability to sign up and get ...more

Yesterday at the conference I was attending I was speaking with a blogger about his blog’s workflow and we were talking about the temptation to check the many different types of blog stats all day long and what a time waster it can be. Off the cuff in the middle ...more

Speaking of Technorati – they now have a ‘most Favorited’ Top100 list which is made up of the blogs that have the highest number of users adding the blog as a favorite. Looking at the numbers involved I’d say that the favorites feature is perhaps not the most used feature ...more

Those readers who have been following my Technorati problems posts (here, here and here) might be interested to know that it seems that all of the problems that I’d mentioned have been resolved. After a fairly longish email discussion I seem to have convinced the ‘powers that be’ that my ...more

TechCrunch reports that Feedburner are about to roll out new statistics that will take their service into some interesting new directions. What interests me most about what they are doing is that they are adding a service that will identify where your feed is being used. This will help to ...more

This week has illustrated to me that there are many aspects of my blogging workflow and tools that I take for granted. Firstly I’ve been taking my broadband internet connection at home for granted. You see this week we’ve actually been house sitting a friend’s house while ours gets painted. ...more

David Sifry announces a new feature at technorati – Technorati Favorites which allows people to keep track of their favorite blogs on one page. You can add up to 50 blogs and then follow them via a single RSS stream. This sounds like a very useful tool – BUT… Of ...more