Category Archives: Blogging

TypePad SEO Blows…

There are so many possible places to start in supporting Michael Krotscheck’s statements and pointing out Six Apart VP Anil Dash mistakes. Here is an easy one:
And TypePad simply blows WordPress.com away on SEO when it comes to search engine indexing. TypePad delivers your blog posts directly to Google Reader and My Yahoo and Blogline.
Are [...]

BattleStar Blogger, Darth Mojo

I found a gem of a blog the other day, Darth Mojo. It is written by BattleStar Galactica Visual Effects Designer, Adam “Mojo” Lebowitz. The blog’s tag line is “the dark chocolate side of the force”. As well as in depth BSG insider info, he geeks out on Star Trek, Star Wars, and all [...]

Greta Van Susteren, Open Thread, Blog Away

Greta Van Susteren’s, the host of Fox News On the Record, GretaWire is a fantastic combination of blogging and social media.

WordPress and your Problems at MooseCamp!

Bloggers and problems enter, only bloggers exit!
Friday, Feb 22, day 1 of the 4th annual Northern Voice including an “internet bootcamp” for people new to blogging, Facebook, podcasting, wikis, and more. It is an awesome logging conference being held again at the Forestry Sciences Centre at UBC! It’s Tim Bray’s “favorite little blogger conclave.” This [...]

Movable Type to support Pingback!

I just read with interest Movable Type Product Manager, the fantastic Byrne Reese’s “Implementing Ping Back for Movable Type“. This is fantastic and long overdue!
This is good news for all bloggers. Someday soon trackbacks can be retired.

Matt Mullenweg Keynoting at Northern Voice!

My boss, the Ma.tt in Matt is keynoting Northern Voice in Vancouver, Saturday February 23th! The title of his talk is “Blogging & Social Media: Where do we go from here?”

“So we asked some bloggers”

I really enjoyed seeing in 2007 an ever increasing number of people self-identify as bloggers and giving their own meaning to the term. I’m looking forward to even more diverse and expressive uses of blog, blogging, and blogger in 2008.
This is an amazing video put together by rbloggers4peace with bloggers showing their appreciation for Rosie [...]

WordPress.com Happiness Engineer For Hire

Matt linked to our Happiness Engineer job posting:
Our software and services are far from perfect, and when things go wrong people aren’t shy about contacting us asking for help. We consider the support side of the user experience to be vitally important because it’s the person who interacts with our customers most and makes the [...]

Allow people to delete their comments?

There has been an interesting discussion on WordPress.com about whether people should be allowed to delete comments they have left.

Why does WordPress treat spam comments nicer than other moderated comments?

I think I just accidentally deleted a comment in WordPress moderation. The irony struck me, that if I had accidentally marked it as spam, then I could have rescued it from the Spam queue.
WordPress lead developer Mark Jaquith has proposed adding Undo functionality which I think is very important!
Mark says this idea was inspired by [...]

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