Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

BlogCharm: Free Blog Host With Pay-Per-Impression

I no longer log in much to BlogExplosion, probably due to the lack of time recently. But exactly 3 and a half hours ago, I received an email from BE with details of BlogCharm - BE’s very own free blog hosting service. With a free trafic exchange system, a free traffic counter service, and a […]

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

YPN And Adsense: Wishful Thinking?

Over at ProBlogger, Darren announces his switch back to Adsense adverts after a trial with Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN) ads. While the post includes many interesting points that could be relevant to this blog as well, I find myself resonating to his last paragraph:
Hopefully the YPN beta test will be widened in the coming months […]

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Big Blog Succumbs to Comment Closure

Via Geek News Central, there’s news that the Washington Post blogs have their comments shut down temporarily until a better discussion format (or a better implementation of comments) comes up. According to the official Washington Post blog post, hate speech, personal attacks and profanity were the cause of this move.
In my opinion, it is a […]

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Blogging for ZDNet

An example of one of the big boys looking to expand its presence in the blogosphere is probably ZDNet. Their Jan 5 advert for tech bloggers:
Do you have a passion for technology? Want to share your from-the-trenches perspective with ZDNet’s readers? ZDNet is expanding its coverage with a series of new blogs on a variety […]

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Severe Downtime

blogHelper recently experienced severe downtime (more than 24 hours) due to hardware problems on the host’s side. However, I hope I can say that the problem has been resolved and that this should not reoccur anytime soon.
Hopefully, the downtime did not inconvenience regular readers too much. I would like to say sorry for the downtime […]

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Kiwi Theme: Featured Posts Not Working in WordPress 2.0

Darn, and I wanted to play with that Featured Posts plugin too. It seems even the Kiwi Plugin does not work completely with WordPress 2.0.
While the admin interface for the Featured Posts plugin seems okay, i.e. it is possible to make your posts into featured posts, they never show up on the index page. […]

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Hello!

Welcome to blogHelper! I know no one is going to read this, but still, I might as well state what I want to do with this blog. For one, I have finally decided that I want to play with the Kiwi theme. It looks cool, but I’m not too sure about the its functionality […]