blogging 102

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Don’t get stressed about not getting comments. Like many other bloggers I too was wondering if this was worth doing several times this week. I am putting money, time, and effort into maintain a blog that doesn’t get very many comments. I am sure some of you have felt that way too. Well I gave myself a year for each blog to start turning a profit and I am actually ahead for the gross on all four of them so I am not fretting. I still am left with the time and effort questions. There are plenty of other blogs out there talking about blogging, but frankly I might be the only one who dares to say “fuck” in their blog. I thought about changing that strategy and decided against it, because blogging is frustrating and sometimes saying “fuck” in a post takes some of that away, and frankly if you want to read “fuck” free posts there are other blogs out there who cater to every corner of politically correct behavior. convey_source = "English"; Read More →

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes We all know it and we all hate it, and believe it or not we have all participated in it to some degree as internet noobs. There are several ways to deter spam on a blog. First is the use of plugins, I like Askimet WordPress. it works really well and used by most of the big name bloggers so that is good enough for me. The second place to deter spam is with email. if you are a pro blogger you need to have your contact information out there. It is your internet business card and people need to access it. There are some nice forms that will do, but those are only a partial solution, because unless you are able to program it to accept attachments, links, etc it doesn’t have the functional range of email. Posting your email address openly though is a call for spammers, and while many companies like Yahoo and Google do a good job at filtering it for you others don’t. I have found the javascript code below however works very well and keeps bots...