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CYA For Bloggers

BlogBoy doesn’t often make political stands when it comes to the online world, but this is one that can’t be ignored.  There isn’t a blogger alive who doesn’t need to consider freedom of speech issues in fact.  In Yahoo news this morning they write about public online spaces not having the same freedom of speech [...]

Must Have WordPress 2.5 Plugins

There were several old combinations that worked well together but since WordPress 2.3 came out many of them stopped working properly or stopped working altogether. Fear not there are replacements out there. Unlike many of the regurgitated idiot lists currently out there, everything I list will work in WordPress 2.5 the only version of the [...]

Don’t Discount LiveJournal for Traffic

Just when I thought my LJ Blog was just a cross post repository for my other blogs so my friends could keep in touch with what I am doing along comes the a surprising number of Google hits to The Other Blog and I find that they are being directed from my LJ which had [...]

Blogging Made Easy… Easier… ish

One of the best tools I have found of recent to help improve our blogging is the ScribeFire extension for the Firefox browser.  It allows you to automatically post to your blog while surfing.  It works for self-hosted WordPress, WordPress.com TypePad.com LiveJournal.com, and a few others.  My hopes were dashed that it wouldn’t recognize [...]

LiveJournal CrossPosting Plugin -WP2.5

I modified the original LiveJournal CrossPosting plugin and have had it sitting on Brad’s Tiny World since the day 2.5 came out.  It is a rather handy tool to have as cross posting your blog entries to your LJ page certainly brings in more traffic without any extra work.  With the move going on at [...]