CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

37 Signals is launching their latest project – Backpack on Tuesday. Whilst the main site doesn’t seem to have gone live yet a number of previews of this new program have been written which you should check out. I been given a bit of an inside look at it by ...more

Three tools that you might like to use to analyze how well your blog is going are over at Marketleap. They are: Search Engine Placement Check – gives you a ranking for a particular keyword in 7 search engines. Search Engine Index Check – gives an indication of how well ...more

Last night I was in town and treated myself to the new OSX – Tiger. This afternoon I’ve installed it and have been playing around with it – asking myself how it will improve my blogging. Here are a few initial reflections: Dashboard – one of the main things that ...more

I was speaking with someone yesterday via MSN and they asked me about how I could possibly follow so many trains of thought to keep 20 blogs on such a variety of topics updated. My answer was quite simple – Bloglines and the RSS feeds that I track there are ...more

The word on the street from those who watch such things is that Google are currently doing a Page Rank update. These things tend to take a day or two to sort themselves out but there are a few tools that can help you work out what your page rank ...more

In the comments of my previous post on the FeedBurner service Duncan, a representative of Feedburner, left the following comment which has a few interesting revelations in it for Feedburner users about upcoming features. Hi Darren, You can always tell if your FeedBurner feed is in synch and up to ...more

Scrivs has just posted a review of the RSS Feed Management tool Feedburner. I’ve used it on two of my blogs for a few months now and have not really had any big problems with it. I love the stats feature which shows how many of your are accessing this ...more

Six Apart has just released an upgrade to Movable Type – Movable Type 3.16. The upgrade includes:

Dave (a ProBlogger reader) asks: I am trying to decide what software to use for a new blog. I have a little experience with blogger, but have looked a lot at WordPress and Moveable Type. But, I sure would appreciate what you think are the pros and cons and even ...more