Category Archives: Blogging

Don Dodge, Marketer Extraordinaire!

I have read every post Don Dodge has written in the last eight months. He is an excellent writer and every post highlights Microsoft’s successes and its competitions’ weaknesses.

Canonical Web Addresses

Although, I had often heard the word, I didn’t really know what canonical meant until recently. I am starting to understand now after working for Automattic on WordPress.

Coastal Vacations

 

The well known Spanish pyramid spammers — aka Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) *sic.
Oh, the pleasures of working on WordPress.com .

Making Life Better

I imagine there are few feelings that top when people tell you that the software that you contribute to makes their lives better. WordPress, thanks Matt and everyone that have made WordPress!

Logging Conference

At the “logging” conference being held at the Forestry Sciences Centre at UBC.

The Moose Converse Again

Northern Voice: the annual blogging conference for everyone held in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
It is sold-out, starts tonight with a fantastic feast, and runs through Satursday. Tomorrow is the unconference Moose Camp and Saturday is the “formal presentations“.
One more sleep for me. Julia and I will take the ferry over first thing in the morning.
If you [...]

Do Follow WordPress

WordPress’ Dougal Campbell reminds all us WordPress bloggers to Do Follow.
I consider this a must install WordPress plugin, essential for free culture to collaborate. Basically, what Kimmo Suominen’s dofollow plugin does is make your blog tell search engines that you think the links that commenters leave are important and part of a healthy Web.
Is there [...]

500,000 WordPress.com blogs

Wow. Fantastic celebratory graphic on WordPress.com’s home page!
Some of the blogs that I remember finding “interesting”:

Consistently I really enjoy the content at //engtech about computing and computer culture
Two very different Mark Kay communities: Mary Kay Voices and Pink Truth
Mark [Jaquith] on WordPress blog
The Disembodied Head of Dick Devos is about American politics I don’t understand, [...]

How do I get more views and traffic?

Matt has added a sincere and detailed answer to this frquently asked question (FAQ) at WordPress.com

My WordPress Secret

Currently, I do most of my blog writing in a private blog on WordPress.com then copy the post to foolswisdom.com .