Monday, September 11th, 2006

Blog Spring Cleaning: 5 Baby Steps

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 […]

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Split Testing for Bloggers: A Primer

If you read Google’s official guide on performing A/B testing for your AdSense ads earlier this month, you’d probably already have a strong sense of what split testing is. But if that has been your only exposure to it, then I’m afraid that there’s a chance you might have been fooled to believe that split […]

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Crazy Egg = Click Tracking + Heat Maps for Your Blog

Crazy Egg - a click tracking service with all the fluffy features demanding publishers will love - just launched today. It isn’t the first entry in this space, with a (completely or very much) similar service in clickdensity (available to the public since June), plus semi-similar services in Google Analytics (has a Site Overlay feature, […]

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

First Post with Pocket SharpMT

If there is one thing I’ve never (yet) tried to do with my blogs, it is to post to them using a PDA. But that ends today.
With my newly purchased Windows Mobile-powered Dell Axim x51v :), you’re looking at my very first post using Pocket SharpMT - a blogging tool originally created to post […]

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

Backup Your Web-Based Blogging Tools

Like many, many, many others, I’ve been affected by Bloglines’ recent problems - where not only are new feed items not showing up, but older “bookmarked” or in Bloglines terms, “Kept New” items have also disappeared.
It would be an understatement to say that it has affected my blogging, but the only party to blame is […]

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

Blummy - A Useful Blogging Tool

I’ve been using Blummy for quite a few months now, but have never thought about blogging about it until Steve Rubel made the plunge earlier this month. For those who’ve never heard of it, Blummy is literally a bookmarlet on steroids, which allows you to combine multiple bookmarklets (and even create custom ones) into a […]

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

Competition Rules!

Recently, two pieces of good news arrived at my “doorstep” - Bloglines (my first-choice feed reader), that is. As a Malaysian, it was great that:

Commission Junction (CJ) was now accepting Malaysians again, and
Paypal was setting up a regional office in Singapore, which could possibly lead to Malaysians being allowed to withdraw Paypal funds officially.

One wonders […]

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

b5media, Akismet and Spam Karma 2

b5media - a Wordpress-powered consumer blog network - recently announced that it would be using Akismet for its anti-spam efforts through an Akismet Enterprise License.
The news itself is pretty insignificant, relatively that is. But it is interesting to see b5media opt for the pay-for Akismet vs. the absolutely free Spam Karma 2, which […]