Blogging

ProBlogger guest author Tony Hung has written an amazingly comprehensive post about marketing your blog in 2007. In it he touches on just about every aspect of what it takes to develop a successful (i.e. popular) blog.

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At last — it appears the feature that was most lacking in Movable Type is finally being developed. Check out the screens over at Movalog. It will be nice for this thorn in my side to finally be removed!

The following is a paid review. I recently joined ReviewMe, a service which enables you to write sponsored reviews about products in return for a payment from advertisers. Read More

I just came across a post by Jack Slocum in which he describes how he built a whole new comments system using the Yahoo! UI.

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Movable Tweak has a “useful article”:http://www.movabletweak.com/templates/easy_templating_with_individua.php for those of us who find themselves rebuilding hundreds of individual entries whenever they make a change to the individual entry archive template.

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Recently I removed the ability to subscribe to comments from this site. I’d been testing out MT Notifier for a while, but although it’s a great plugin it had started to cause me to receive a huge amount of spam. Read More

I find myself referring to the Movable Type user manual a lot, especially the page on date formats. However — much like the rest of the user manual — this page is not very user-friendly. Read More

Recently I’ve noticed a marked increase in the amount of comment spam I’ve been receiving. It got so bad at one point that I could have a hundred or (many) more spam comments to wade through in my inbox.

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