WordPress 3.0 was released three weeks ago on June 17, 2010 after much anticipation from the blogging community. The WordPress team made over 150 changes to the new release and most of those were to clean up code and the back-end user interface. Everyone has their favorite features of the…
The best way to achieve a consistent audience for your blog is to practice consistency yourself. To become a more dedicated blogger, set a blogging schedule and do your best to stick to it.
If you can post every day (or every weekday), do so. But 3 times a week,…
Lately I’ve been working on creating a convenient system that I can use to effectively keep track of where I’ve found the images that I’m using on this blog. The main reason I care to remember where I’ve found an image is that I want to be able to credit the…
As a soldier in the United States Army, I find that the fourth of July carries an incredibly special meaning. The fourth of July is the celebration of our nation’s freedom and strength. We look back at the document signed 234 years ago and as we do we have to…
Post titles are drastically under rated. Most bloggers fail to realize that their post title is the number one advertisements for each of their articles. An article’s title has to put on the gloves and go head-to-head with dozens of other post titles in people’s RSS readers,
WordPress has teamed up with Twilio, a communications and voice application, to create Phone In Your Blog. This new feature gives WordPress.com users yet another means of posting a blog.
Previously, users were able to submit their blogs via their WP dashboard, email and…
Google developers are once again hard at work with the “New” Google News. Google News introduced in 2002 categorized news stories by topic with Top Stories remaining in the spotlight. The new Google News has been redesigned to emphasize personalization by allowing you to choose what you want to display and…
Google Buzz has gone social … social search that is. In October 2009, Google beta-tested and rolled out a full launch in January 2010, social search.
Social search took search queries a bit further by crawling the web to find and feature public content from your friends and connections via your…
Dating is never easy, and all of us have to kiss a few frogs before we find a prince or princess. It’s hard work!
Sometimes that special someone who caught your eye and asked you if you’d like to go for a coffee, turns out to be really boring. Maybe…