I found time for two long-delayed activities today. The first: A haircut, which I had been postponing for weeks. The second: Updating Adobe Acrobat to version 7.0.8 - a move months late. Neither might seem very important from the outset, but they help more than you might expect in my daily routine.
If simple maintainance works […]

I just realised a couple of hours ago that I started a series on tackling spam for individual blog platforms in early July (via a mix of plugins and/or built-in functions), but never created an index page for it, nor continued past Movable Type and WordPress.
So, this post shall serve as the index for […]

Reviews on individual website traffic statistics packages and comparisons between them are in almost every nook and corner of the blogosphere/web. We have established services like Statcounter, Sitemeter and Mint compared against heavyweight newcomer Google Analytics and a whole host of innovative niche packages like Performancing Metrics for blog-centric tracking and MyBlogLog for click tracking.
But […]

As introduced earlier, we’ll be looking at how to implement microformats in individual blog platforms. We’ll start with WordPress.
There are two approaches you can take. One: Manually pasting relevant microformat code created via microformat creators. Step-by-step instructions are as follows:

Fill in the web forms over at the relevant microformat creators. Here are the main ones:

hCalendar […]

If your blogging life still has room for more structure, you might want to take a look at one of the more hidden trends going on today: Microformats. For those who wish to postpone reading the dedicated wiki on the subject, microformats are, “…a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely […]

Claudio of the WordPress Italy blog recently translated one of my earlier articles in the Using WP as a CMS series into Italian.
Check it out (that is, if you understand Italian :)).
P.S.: It’s really nice to see that despite the rampant scraping that many of us are victims of, there are still those who […]

I’d wager that a substantial percentage of product bloggers have learnt the power of Chitika eMinimalls (aff link) over the past year or so - perhaps even to the extent that their eMinimalls revenue exceeds AdSense on some of their product blogs.
So, it shouldn’t be surprising to find bloggers who want to place multiple […]

This post was written in advance as I’m currently on vacation in Philippines. As such, I will most likely be unable to reply to any comments, emails or IMs during this period - including those on this post. Thanks for understanding.
If there’s any question that’s been weighing on my mind when writing the Using WordPress […]