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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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 [...]

Recently, Digg.com, the social networking site, introduced the ability to “Shout” brief comments to friend networks. The idea is that you can type a brief message and then send it to one or more of the people on your friends list. They can then reply, if they feel like it. In many ways it resembles [...]

Recently an earlier post on Nitro Candy made it onto StumbleUpon (thanks, readers!) and this drew quite a few page views. This makes me feel great: I like writing when others are reading. Anyway, my previous statistics provider wasn’t really up to the task of handling more than 500 page views in a 24 hour [...]