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If you’re like me, you’ve probably got a range of options for people to subscribe to your blog’s RSS feed.
In addition to your main feed, often via FeedBurner, you might offer little chicklets or links that enable people to get your content via their preferred service such as Yahoo, Netvibes, Bloglines, etc.
I have such [...]

About six months ago, I wrote about PodPress on my tech blog, talking about my mixed experiences with this podcasting plug-in for WordPress.
In spite of those mixed experiences, I still use it as I’ve yet to find an alternative that offers the breadth and depth of functionality that PodPress does, in particular its easy [...]

In episode #373 of the FIR podcast last week, Shel and I discussed what’s wrong with Technorati.
This turned into quite a lengthy discussion, initially prompted by Dan York’s report in that episode in which he talked about what’s wrong with Technorati.
There seems to be a growing feeling that something’s wrong with Technorati.
In my recent [...]

The latest release of WordPress, version 2.6.1, came out a few days ago.
I upgraded this blog yesterday in a process that was painless as it happened literally with one mouse click and didn’t involve the manual upgrade process that’s usual with self-hosted WordPress, and which can be quite daunting for some users.
My hosting service, [...]

I detest pop-ups on websites, especially the ones that so obtrusively steal your mouse whenever you move it across a web page and unexpectedly pop up something in a window.
Ads are the worst although those pop-ups with either RSS text or a screenshot of another website or blog run a close second (I’m thinking [...]

When visiting websites on your mobile device, there’s nothing more frustrating than waiting for a site to load when that site contains huge numbers of images and other graphical paraphernalia.
It gets downright annoying when you’re on a cellular connection and especially if you’re roaming: all you see are currency symbols flashing in front of your [...]

After a pleasant early-morning drive up the M40 and and not getting lost in central Birmingham (thank you, TomTom!), I arrived at WordCamp UK in good time for the start.
So it’s about 45 minutes into Day 2. About 60 people here, I reckon. Quite a few hangover-looking folk so I guess last night’s festivities worked [...]

This is an event I’ve been looking forward to for quite a while - WordCamp UK 2008, the first WordCamp in the UK, takes places in Birmingham during this weekend July 19-20.
There is a packed agenda planned for the two days, offering something for everyone with an interest in WordPress, whatever your knowledge or [...]

It’s a novel ideal - provide an easy way for people who want to pitch you to do so via Twitter.
Imagine - a pitch in 140 characters or less and that comes not via email!
And so we have TwitterPitch, a plugin for WordPress blogs running version 2.5 or later, developed by Aaron Brazell:
[...] The concept [...]

A new version of RSS aggregator FeedDemon was released on Friday which I think is an essential upgrade if you’re an existing user.
While new version 2.7 does include quite a few bug fixes and improvements to some functionality, according to the release notes, the biggest benefit I’ve already noticed is how much faster the [...]