HOW TO: Boost Your Blog Traffic
For old and new bloggers alike, Paul writes a short HOW TO on increasing traffic to your blog. He covers Usability, Content, Technorati, Blog rings, Feedburner and few other tricks.
A Flickr of WordPress.com
Well, I don’t use this but I am sure many would welcome an integration of Flickr with WordPress. This is already functional at WordPress.com.
China reportedly shuts down blog
AP Reports that Chinese authorities have blocked a pro-democracy Web log after it was nominated for a freedom of expression award by a German radio station, a press freedom group said Thursday. The blog, titled Wang Yi’s Microphone, dealt with “sensitive subjects” and was maintained by a teacher from Sichuan province, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said in a statement. Read the full story here …
SK2 + Akismet = Spam Karma 2 Akismet Plugin
Are you currently using SK2 and like me have qualms switching over to the new Akismet? Enter Spam Karm 2 Akismet Plugin by Sebbi You will need to have a WordPress.com API Key for this to work, however you can easily get one by using Flock.
WordPress.com Please give me
Update I missed this, but Donncha has already taken care of this request 🙂 For those new to WordPress, in versions 1.5.x and below a nice feature for creating teasers was available while posting.
Photobucket.com Free Accounts Upgraded
For those who aren’t aware, PhotoBucket is a free image hosting service in the likes of Flickr. They have just upgraded the free services provided to users. You now have a free storage of 50MB and free bandwidth of 2500MB/month which should be more than enough for free users.
Images in your sidebar at WordPress.com
While you still can’t edit your templates here at WordPress.com the WP.com FAQ suggests a good method to add images to the sidebar using the Link Manager.
Web 2.0 Cracks showing…?
I had written a while back about Web 2.0. As with anything new a debate rages on as to how good or bad or effective is the term Web 2.
“Stop Blogging!” says High School
Associated Press reports that a High School has ordered school children to remove their personal blogs to protect themselves from cyberpredators. This ofcourse has raked up a controversy with blogging community crying lack for free speech while others crying protection. Well, like I said before privacy and blogging is all upto you.
Your own domain with WordPress.com?
This FAQ states that in the near future you may use your very own domain with your WordPress.com blog. This will come as a nominal yearly cost.
Flock to WordPress.com?
Have seen a lot of Flock the past few days and decided to investigate. For those who don’t know yet, Flock is a new browser based on Firefox. Wasn’t really into downloading it until I saw Matt’s post which got me interested.
Is Blogging Private?
Lately I’ve come across a lot of persons asking me about the privacy of blogging. Others tell me that they seem to know a lot about me by reading my personal blog even without meeting me. This led me to actually evaluate the privacy of having your own blog.