A web host has conducted research on how many wordpress blogs they host and what are the most popular plugins are. The top most used are not surprising, but it’s always useful to see what people are using to see if a certain plugin can solve a specific problem. Source, webhost Dreamhost

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It’s a bitter moment when your peers tell you to f**k off. But this is what happened to a big cheese in the game publising industry called Mark Rein of Epic games. Go read it, if you like to see the Indie kid take down the big business behemoth you will love it. I love [...]

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Some people over complicate things. Blogging is simply a communications tool. Once the piece of information you want to communicate is acheived, its purpose is done. Therefore the length of the blog is merely something for the aesthetic. Of course it could be argued that a blog is also an “emotional delivery machine”, or an [...]

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Is it better to be the consumer? Or the creator of the consumed? Are truly successful bloggers both?

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For one reason or another I stopped blogging, stopped writing. Which is a shame as I really like the process and it’s something I do well (haven’t the time to be modest this morning). Most of the problem is simple distraction, too much going on, too many possibilities, even too much success. Sometimes you have [...]

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It’s always the same, on the eve of a product launch the server decides to get all emotional. The chaps at Dreamhost are working on it, although nothing is obviously wrong. It sounds like an errant script is deciding to loop and hogging the data. Server management is always one of those things that I [...]

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Aaron Wall has a certain style of blogging, one that is highly readable and underpinned by a true experts eye. He also seems to not mind offending big names, my cynical nature leads me at first to think there is some business logic as to where he aims his criticism, but probably not. I think [...]

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OK, I admit, my post on social bookmarking was a little tongue in cheek. Designed possibly to raise an eyebrow or two? Most likley, but I also like to play around with the medium of blogging. I was just about to call it an art form, but noooooo. Posts like that are designed to get [...]

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Finally got round to starting a blog on social media marketing It’s where I will be blogging mostly these days, except for the occasional SEO rant. This blog has served me well in the past few years. But now it’s time to move on. So go check out my new social media blog

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For a while now I have been turning comments on and off on this blog. I feel a blog goes through stages of life and usefuleness as other projects get more attention. This is no longer the blog it used to be, no longer sucking in comments like an industrial vaccum cleaner. Most of my [...]

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