CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

Jeremy Zawodny writes on the Future of WordPress and MovableType and writes: ‘WordPress will come to be the de-facto choice in the world of self-hosted personal weblogs and low-end webhosting “value added” package. MovableType will be the blogware of choice in the corporate blogging world, both for internal weblogs and ...more

Balay ni Bambit has a great comparative analysis of Blogger vs WordPress for those of your who are still at the stage of choosing a back end client for your blogging. She ends up coming down on the side of WordPress (as I think most serious bloggers would – I ...more

Migs Paraz asked me a question that I thought I’d open up for us all to have a go at answering. He writes: ‘I’m a software developer. What tools can I write to help probloggers to be more successful?’ So there’s a question for you. If you could have some ...more

Jesse Ruderman has a great post on Switching from Movable Type to WordPress for those contemplating the switch. The article goes through some of the advantages and disadvantages of WordPress over Moveable type and talks you through some of the problems encountered in the move (along with some solutions and ...more

Is anyone else having issues with Bloglines today? I logged on this morning only to find that I could not access it at all. I thought maybe they were having issues and waited an hour or two only to find it still timing out. Now 10 hours later I’m still ...more

I welcome the new customizable Google News – but have to admit that I’m not as excited about it as I first was when I heard about it. The changes that they’ve made don’t really change the way I’ll use the service. It all seems a little cosmetic to me ...more

A couple of days ago I interviewed Interviewed web entrepreneur Joel Comm who authored the e-book What Google Never Told You About Making Money with Adsense (affiliate link). Since that time I’ve had a number of emails from people asking for my opinion of the book as they are considering ...more

For all you Windows users – can I suggest you check out the new version of ecto for Windows 1.5. I won’t rave on about ecto again because I have many times before – but I would highly recommend it. If its anywhere near as good as the Mac version ...more

I’m still following the stats that MyBlogLog.com after signing up for it last night. I actually decided to send them an email to ask a few questions and thought I’d share their answers here as they are not addressed on their General Questions page. Eric from MyBlogLog emailed back the ...more