CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

I’ve had an increasing number of emails from readers over the past few months telling me about problems that they have with Technorati. Now I’m not wanting this to turn into a bitch session – I personally have a lot of time for the Technorati team who have developed a ...more

This post has been submitted by Croak from The Bavarian Falcon. Technorati is getting a lot of attention these days, good and bad. But as a portal into the blogosphere, it is fairly prominent, and more and more readers are coming to rely on it, especially for its tag search ...more

Aaron Brazell is from Baltimore, Maryland and leverages his influence as a blogger at various blogs to develop his (sometimes) convoluted opinions. He writes about Web 2.0 topics at Emerging Earth and keeps a personal and political blog at Technosailor.com If you’ve been seriously blogging for any bit of time ...more

WordPress 2.0 is almost ready to go live after it’s successful beta testing. The official release is set for December 26 (put back a couple of days to ensure there’s enough support due to the holidays). I’ve had a play with the beta and it’s looking good. Look out for ...more

Kinja has relaunched. It’s a Gawker service that incorporates elements of an RSS reader with some other interesting web tools. In a sense it’s also a blog directory. I’ve never been a big user of it because I have other tools which do everything it does and to be honest ...more

Looks like Yahoo are opening up even more options for bloggers and are now offering WordPress on their hosting packages in addition to MT. Read what Matt has to say about it at the WordPress Development Blog › WordPress on Yahoo

Adriaan over at ecto has announced a Special Christmas discount of 20% off ecto purchases between 23 – 26 December. I use the Mac version to run all my blogs and it’s probably the best $17.95 I ever spent. I can’t vouch for the Windows version but the Mac one ...more

David Sifry has announced a few new interesting features over at Technorati including charts to help you track the interest in keywords, improved extracts, scoped search based on related tags and enhanced profile information. There’s some helpful little updates there that will make Technorati more useable and useful.

Christopher Carfi has information that I’m sure many TypePad users are looking for today – How To Export And Back Up Your TypePad Blog.