The Word Press forums have an interesting thread running with a warning NOT to use Google’s new Web Accelerator with Word Press. In it they link to an article over at O’Reilly Radar which is a little frightening: ‘Some users of 37 Signals’s new Backpack web application started noticing yesterday ...more

WordPress have been coming under a little scrutiny in the past 24 hours by Waxy.org who have questioned their hosting of 120,000 articles on their site on a variety of topics provided by a third party on some high paying keywords. You can check out some examples of these pages ...more

Michael Moncur is one of those web entrepreneurs that you talk to and realize that you’re just a baby when it comes to making money online. A few months ago Michael left a comment on one of my posts and I knew instantly that this was a guy with some ...more

Jeremy Zawodny writes on the Future of WordPress and MovableType and writes: ‘WordPress will come to be the de-facto choice in the world of self-hosted personal weblogs and low-end webhosting “value added” package. MovableType will be the blogware of choice in the corporate blogging world, both for internal weblogs and ...more

World Press users might like to upgrade to the latest stable release of WP 1.5.

Weblog Tools Collection has a good review of the soon to be released (I hope) WordPress version 1.5. The review is glowing and leaves me hanging to see what it is like for myself. I’ve recently moved a number of my blogs (including this one) to WordPress (1.2) and found ...more

Note: check out our more recent article on how to start a blog. So what is a Blog anyway? I am asked every week via emails, conversation and Instant Messaging chats to define: ‘what is a blog’. If you’re reading this you may well be asking the same question. There ...more

Is Google’s latest attack on Comment Spam going to hurt Bloggers as much or even more than the Spammers themselves? As I mentioned a few days ago, Google have announced a strategy for eliminating comment spam on blogs by implementing a ‘rel=”nofollow”’ tag which would cause links using the attribute ...more

I’m really pleased to announce a new blogging project that I’ve been working on for the past few days – Depression News – a blog that will report the latest news and information about the symptoms and treatment of Depression. It is still in beta but is at a stage ...more