Archive for the 'Blogging' Category

Top 5 Biggest Spelling Peeves

Here are the most annoying mistakes to come across in a post. I love reading articles on the net, but sometimes I read things that just grate my cheese. Here are five of the all-time biggest peeves.
1. “Loose” v. “Lose”
You’ll often see this one written in the context of losing an argument or position (e.g. [...]

Dealing with Blog Spam

When I started this blog I made a rule that I wasn’t going to get involved in posting about the minutiae of running a weblog, because no one wants to read about that kind of bumpf. So I’ll just say this. I’m officially sick of spam. Depressingly, the Akismet ZeitGeist says more than 92% of [...]

12 Ways to Thank a Blogger

OK, OK, so everybody’s doing it. But that doesn’t mean blogging isn’t a thankless task. I’d rather be weeding the garden but Lord knows I have to do this. If you did want to thank a blogger, especially around Christmas time, here are twelve ways to do it.

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Managing Comments in Wordpress

I’ve just installed a new plugin for managing comments in Wordpress. Now, Wordpress is meant to be a strong core tool to handle blogging. It’s extensible, so you can add plugins to manage additional functionality. However I do think that comment handling is severely lacking, even in the core install. As it stands, administrators need [...]