I still think MyBlogLog has potential to be so much more, plenty of people use it, but it just does not have that certain magical ingredient, that I can’t think of right now. I think the interface for a start needs to be updated and redesigned. That would be a good first step.

I have only just recently signed up to Last.fm myself, so if you are a avid user, do get in contact, love to hear from you.

Wordpress Autosave Problem - This is quite common so it would seem and is a very very frustrating one at that. Simply, the Autosave kicks in on a repeated cycle, thus pretty much locking you out of the site. It seems to make repeated Ajax requests which means you cannot do any editing.

So not one to take chances I have waited patiently, then not so patiently when I heard that Technorati would be doing a ‘cease and de exist’ on anything WordPress installations under 2.5. I think this is a rotten thing to do personally, but hey ho.

What makes Ping so useful is that it is so simple to set-up, configure and use. There is only one screen and you do everything from this one screen. So no clicking around here. It’s a true one-stop shop for posting or broadcasting to your Social Network services, MicroBlogs and Blogs. One window to enter your message and that’s it. Enter your message and voila, all the services you have set-up are then updated, and pretty quickly too. Usually within minutes.

Going to the Delicious home page is quite interesting as there are may of the most bookmarked sites which proves to be a cool place to check what is currently hot. Almost like a Stumble or DIGG, but more subtle and less intrusive. It’s just there for you. I like it.

Toluu a service that is fast growing on me. And the important thing is that it will really shine the more people come on board, as there will be a richer store of feeds to measure and match from, thus you will benefit from discovering further feeds based on your own likes.

I was gob smacked by the success of the ‘Eat. Sleep. Tweet.’ Badge. Within one day, it received over 100 views on Flickr. This was originally done for a chap who is printing manic quantities of Twitter shirts. The above slogan is unique to him, so I thought I would do one similar to the [...]

One more chicklet to add to my collection. Obviously it is for the Lifestreaming Social Aggregator Service, Profilactic, which I have been using extensively recently and highly recommend it as a way to manage all your feeds, social networking messages and service profiles.
This image is a bit different to my usual, as it had [...]

Again, another rant, playing Devils advocate, it’s all the same, I’m just moaning.
We hear a lot (I do in any case) about using images to make your post more appealing. These are some of the top suggestions leveled at us as a ‘must do’, ’should do’, ‘ought to’, ‘have to’ by a lot of bloggers [...]

Expanding my Mini-Post idea, and some inspiration from Colin at CK Marketing (aka A Geeks Journey) I have decided to add the following.

The idea is to make your photos work for you and your Blog every time someone views your photos. There is a bit of a gap between how Flickr and your Blogs talk, yes you can link them up to post updates, blog photos from Flickr etc, but it’s still quite disparate.

So Niche is not the answer, it’s an alternative, but don’t get caught up in the general hype that finding a Niche subject will mean a long lasting blog career. It’s more likely to be a short lived career, which could be just the ticket. Depends which way you look at it and what you want out from it.

Feeling you must Blog everyday for the sake of keeping readers is a BIG Blogging myth. As I said previously, frequency is important for Google maybe, but I really feel it’s not important for maintaining true reader loyalty. I subscribe to some top blogs that only post once a week, sometimes once a fortnight. Even then, it may not be of interest to me, but I know that once and while, a top post will be written. That’s enough for me to stay susbcribed.

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