This is a guest post. While Blondish.net helps more with people using WordPress on self-hosted, WordPress also offers a place for bloggers to start. If you are unsure of starting a website for blogging or to add a blog to your current site, try using the free WordPress.com services first. Note from Nile about Guest
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If you look up the term ‘#1 douchebag‘ in Google, you will find that Micah Baldwin (@micah on Twitter) holds that spot. This is because he asked people to link to him using that term as an anchor link. Some people would probably shake their head, but after hearing his presentation at WordCamp Chicago 2009,
[Continue Reading...]WordPress 2.8 – Baker Available!
As announced by Matt Mullenweg, WordPress 2.8 became available June 10th. The version is named “Baker” after the jazz trumpeteer and vocalist, Chet Baker. As explained by Matt during WordCamp Chicago, each of the versions of WordPress that have come forth are named after jazz musicians because of his love of music, as well as
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I had the awesome opportunity to listen to a presentation from Erin Blaskie (@erinblaskie on Twitter) at WordCamp Chicago 2009. Erin ran an interesting social experiment just by doing something she loved, gaming. She made videos and blogs, and even twittered her activities… and became a success in a few months. Having a successful blog
[Continue Reading...]Tweetmeme: The Next Step in Social Bookmarking
During WordCamp Chicago, David Dalka, one of the speakers treaded upon the topic of Tweetmeme. First he asked, “What is the most popular social media site launched in 2009?” I am sure as you all read that, you thought it was Twitter. Nope! It is Tweetmeme. Tweetmeme is a site that people can tweet through
[Continue Reading...]Chatcatcher: Hit and Miss Plug-in
ChatCatcher is not just a plugin for WordPress blogs, but other types of blog systems. It is suppose to catch your messages at various places. One of them is Twitter. The script is great in getting trackbacks, but it does not catch everything. Understandable… nothing is perfect. However, how can ChatCatcher improve upon this. I
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