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Poor “Related” Links Ruin Posts

I was reading a great post by Ricky Gervais on Time Magazine’s site today about the difference between American and British humor, when it struck me just how intrusive their in post “related posts”...

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Bad Choice of Words Automattic

If you haven’t already heard WordPress.com users will soon be able to monetize their blogs as Automattic has formed an advertising partnership with Federated Media which they are pimping as WordAds.No...

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Facebook fb_xd_fragment Problem – .htaccess Solution

Sara was trawling through Google Analytics for our sites and noted that a number of posts showed their URL’s with an appended “?fb_xd_fragment=” like...

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Remember When Blogging Used To Be Fun?

In the not so distant past blogging used to be something that I enjoyed. It used to be something that I did everyday, sometimes multiple times a day, as well as podcast, develop and find content for...

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Blogging Without A Contact Form = You Miss Out

I’ve said it before, and I’ll damn well say it again – “If you don’t have a contact form on your blog or site, you’re not worth my time following”.Having spent a large part of this morning building a...

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Have You Gone Static?

It was remarkably fitting that I just had to perform 2 theme updates on this blog – 1 automatic and 1 manual – for Genesis, and still had to disable minification of CSS to make things look right.You...

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Do You Disclose Sponsored Posts?

Do you disclose sponsored posts? You really should, you know!Disclosure isn’t something I’ve seen talked about a lot on the web lately, unless it’s people complaining about TechCrunch, or TechCrunch a...

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How Not To Apply To Guest Post (And 5 Tips To Avoid The Circular Filing Cabinet)

I received the above application to guest post on my blog this morning, which set my teeth on edge.Everything about this generic, impersonal, templated application is an insult to the owner of any blog...

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Poor “Related” Links Ruin Posts

I was reading a great post by Ricky Gervais on Time Magazine’s site today about the difference between American and British humor, when it struck me just how intrusive their in post “related posts”...

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Bad Choice of Words Automattic

If you haven’t already heard WordPress.com users will soon be able to monetize their blogs as Automattic has formed an advertising partnership with Federated Media which they are pimping as WordAds.No...

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Facebook fb_xd_fragment Problem – .htaccess Solution

Sara was trawling through Google Analytics for our sites and noted that a number of posts showed their URL’s with an appended “?fb_xd_fragment=” like...

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Remember When Blogging Used To Be Fun?

In the not so distant past blogging used to be something that I enjoyed. It used to be something that I did everyday, sometimes multiple times a day, as well as podcast, develop and find content for...

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Have You Gone Static?

It was remarkably fitting that I just had to perform 2 theme updates on this blog – 1 automatic and 1 manual – for Genesis, and still had to disable minification of CSS to make things look right.You...

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Do You Disclose Sponsored Posts?

Do you disclose sponsored posts? You really should, you know!Disclosure isn’t something I’ve seen talked about a lot on the web lately, unless it’s people complaining about TechCrunch, or TechCrunch a...

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How Not To Apply To Guest Post (And 5 Tips To Avoid The Circular Filing Cabinet)

I received the above application to guest post on my blog this morning, which set my teeth on edge.Everything about this generic, impersonal, templated application is an insult to the owner of any blog...

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Bloggers What Do You Do With Your Old Drafts?

Sometimes I get an idea and start bashing the keys faster than an epileptic tap-dancer having a fit and churn out post after post. Other times it’s a slow laborious process that could best be compared...

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Bloggers You’ve Got 10 Years

According to this graph the death of blogging is predicted for 2020. That only give you 10 years to become a multi blogging squillionaire! You’d better hurry! The chart is tongue in cheek but I wonder...

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Towing Company Sues Student For $750000 Over Facebook Page – Cease Your...

Stop complaining, stop shouting and take some pills for that blood pressure before that big red head of yours explodes. This is a non story, but is an interesting and cautionary tale about publishing...

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I Hate The Regurgitation And You Should Too

Regurgitation of content is a fact of life within the tech blogosphere. Steven Hodson wrote about how being doomed to see the same content on site after site  it is simply a fact of life especially...

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Would We Be Better Bloggers Without Statistics?

I was listening to TWiT episode 246 a few moments ago and Dwight Silverman said something that really resonated with me while they were discussing Nick Denton, Gawker and the whole “stolen iPhone /...

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