Category Archives: Blogging

“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 [...]

Sponsored themes are a bad experience

Sponsored WordPress themes are lame because they are a bad user experience. End of discussion.
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Missing Ingredient in WordCamp Secret Sauce Found

Lorelle.
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WordCamp 2007 Videos on UHF

I have had the pleasure of spending some of my time sitting with John “One Man’s Blog, Specialization is for Insects” Pozadzides today. He is the person of the hour, or will be, recording WordCamp 2007.
July 23rd Update: the brilliant Colin Devroe feeling better on day 2 has posted a few videos from WordCamp:

WordCamp 07: [...]

Ann Coulter on my Blog!

If you are a friend of mine and you use Google Adsense on your blog, you probably want to add humanevents.com to “Competitive Ad Filter”.
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Aggravating “Outdated and Disturbing”

ReputationDefender founder Michael Fertik doesn’t seem to understand the jungle he is in.
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Marc Andreessen is on Fire!

Whatever you think about what the browser boy wonder has done since Netscape, you have to appreciate the communication, collaboration, and participation that he has been doing since the beginning of this month at blog.pmarca.com!
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