Weblogs

If you’ve ever been hit with a virus on your computer, you know how difficult it can be to thoroughly clean the machine, even when you have security software that does all the heavy work. Take that picture and apply it to your blog and you have a migraine-inducing situation, precisely what I’ve experienced during [...]

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Trust is key to avoiding a bad WordPress theme

Published on January 16, 2011 · 6:22 pm UK · 4 comments

in Software, Technology, Weblogs

A red flag waving is how I saw Siobhan Ambrose’s post a few days ago on why you should never search for free WordPress themes in Google or anywhere else. What Ambrose presents in her post is the result of some credible and compelling research she carried out into what could be going on behind [...]

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There’s been a bit of commentary and opinion in recent weeks that blogging (meaning, written content longer than just a paragraph or two) as we know it is dying or even already dead when compared to the rise of Facebook and Twitter (meaning, very short content like the 140-character posts of Twitter). It started last [...]

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The other day, I noticed that the copyright notice I display in the footer of this blog still said ’2010.’ So I dived into the code in the footer template in the WordPress theme I use and made the change so that the copyright year now correctly states ’2011.’ Then I tweeted it as I’ve [...]

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The start of a new month as well as a new year, and time for a preview look at the latest monthly ranking of technology blogs in the UK. As usual, my friends at European search engine and news portal Wikio have given me a sneak peek at the top 20 tech blogs from the [...]

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Tomorrow, December 5, European search engine and news portal Wikio will be publishing the latest monthly ranking of technology blogs in the UK. As has been the case nearly every month during the past two years, they’ve given me a sneak peek ahead of publication at the top 20 from the full list of the [...]

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Cision UK has published an updated list of what the business intelligence and communication firm ranks as the top ten PR blogs in the UK: NevilleHobson.com Drew B’s take on Tech PR Wadd’s PR and Media blog A PR Guy’s Musings – Stuart Bruce PR Studies PR Media Blog The Red Rocket Mediations SimonWakeman IanGreen.com [...]

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Who has the top blogs in the the UK that cover technology and online marketing, two categories of blogs that typically interest many readers of this blog? ‘Top’ can be a subjective word and there are plenty of classifications out there. In this case, I’m talking about the rankings published each month by search engine [...]

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Figuring out the state of the blogosphere

Published on September 27, 2010 · 7:21 am UK · 12 comments

in Blogging, Social Media, Trends, Weblogs

At one time, in the early days of social media when it was simply known as ‘blogging,’ the only service you gave any really serious attention to was Technorati. If you wanted to know who was who in blogging, you checked Technorati. A blogger’s rank and/or authority? Technorati. Where a blog sits in the blogosphere’s [...]

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Another sneak peek at who’s who in the technology blogosphere in the UK from my friends at Wikio, the European search engine and news portal. This top-20 list is a subset from the top 100 tech blogs ranking published each month by Wikio. September’s complete list will be online at Wikio in the next day [...]

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