Tag Archives: Blogging

Posts about blogging, running a blog, various blog post writing styles and methods for running a blog.

Are WordPress.org users missing out?

For whatever reason you began blog­ging, be it per­sonal or oth­er­wise, one aspect of blog­ging tran­scends blog type: com­ments and com­ment­ing. Whether you’re blog­ging about your most recent hol­i­day or about the latest piece of tech­no­logy, it’s always a nice feel­ing to receive a com­ment on your post. A large part of receiv­ing com­ments on blog posts is, […]

A change of scenery and why I try not to write draft posts

Okay, lately I’ve been blog­ging a lot about WordPress, Magento and cod­ing in gen­eral. Time for a breather, folks. No techie stuff in this blog post, just a fun, relax­ing read about a change of scenery, stream-​​​​of-​​​​conscious writ­ing and why I prefer it to writ­ing draft blog posts. Okay, just a little bit of techie stuff (let’s get it over with, shall […]

The discovery of blogging

I find blog­ging to be such a unique and inter­est­ing medium for com­mu­nic­a­tion. Share news, thoughts and inform­a­tion with the world and inter­act with those who com­ment on your writ­ings. This, on the sur­face, seems like a some­what well-​​​​known concept. The ques­tion is, is it?

Blogging techniques– Daily Blogging

Wow, it’s already approx­im­ately half way through 2009. That’s incred­ible. This June, I decided to try a blog­ging “style” I had yet to try: daily blog­ging. I decided that, given the mid-​​​​year nature of the month, it was time to try some­thing fresh and new to me. I made a con­scious point of blog­ging daily about whatever I thought about. Whether it […]

BlogSpot Rugby — New rugby blog online

Hey every­one, Just a quick shout out to say that BlogSpot Rugby,  a new rugby blog based in South Africa, has just gone live. The con­tent and lay­out look really awe­some. I look for­ward to read­ing this blog, as will many rugby fans. Nice one @AMyburgh and co.

An update on my 31DBBB progress

Hey every­one, I just thought I’d update you all on how things are going with the 31DBBB (31 Days to Building a Better Blog) Challenge. I’m roughly half way through the chal­lenge now and things are going really well. Every day, I receive an email from Darren Rowse at ProBlogger with a tip of the day and a link to […]

How do you browse through a blog?

Blogs in gen­eral seem to cater for sim­ilar func­tion­al­ity: tag clouds, cat­egor­ies, post tag­ging, search func­tion­al­ity, etc. My ques­tion here is, which brows­ing method works best for you when brows­ing a blog? I’ve been con­sid­er­ing adding “related posts” into this blog’s cur­rent design. I’m just won­der­ing, do users in gen­eral find a related posts block to be […]

The 31DBBB Challenge

A few days ago, while read­ing through my Twitter stream, I came across a link to the “31DBBB Challenge”. Having seen “31DBBB” in a few tweets by vari­ous blog­gers, I thought I’d see what it’s all about. The 31 Days to Build a Better Blog chal­lenge is a pro­gramme run by Darren Rowse of problogger.net, that aims to assist blog­gers  in building […]