CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

I’ve recently been considering moving my last remaining Movable Type blogs over to WordPress 1.5 – however I think I might hold off a little and see what MT 3.2 turns out like. They are in ‘talk it up’ mode at the moment at Six Apart but I have to ...more

Blogs and links are the perfect couple. Of course, everyone knows that. You don't have to be a hopeless romantic or some SEO techie type to figure that one out.

Is your blog set up properly that I can use one click subscription with it? As more and more people start using aggregators to follow their favorite blogs, many of them are using easy services like Bloglines or a tool build into their browser. Yesterday for example, Microsoft showed at ...more

Its a matter of history that I was a member of the Movable Type diaspora when the house that Mena built decided for better or worse to alienate a large number of their loyal user base with MT 3. Its been 12 months, and a lot of the old MT ...more

A few tips on how to use ecto to make your blog more public and profitable.

Have you ever showed off your Alexa rank? Or looked down at someone because their rank was not high enough from your point of view? Unless you really know what those numbers mean, you might want to think again, especially when you plan on acquiring a blog or a web ...more

Yeah, I admit it, I’m a metrics junky.  Which is good, since I am the chief blogger for Elytics.com writing on the web metrics blog.  Regardless, I’m also a huge fan of FeedBurner.  I admit I check my FeedBurner stats throughout the day, especially when one of my articles has ...more

Those of you who are WordPress users might be interested in Secrets of WP Theming: Part 1 and article by Chris J. Davis.

A number of bloggers have recently asked me to write something about statistics packages – particularly to talk about the stats systems that I use and what features in them that I analyse. I’m happy to do so but I’m not sure how unique my opinion will be. Perhaps it ...more