Facebook Killed The Casual Blog

Posted on October 25th, 2009 at 09:08am  |  6 comments

I stay pretty tuned in to the activity on our little blogosphere and for the past 6 months I’ve noticed a significant downward trend in the number of posts and comments coming through Google Reader. Is this slow down a direct result in everyone’s increased use of Facebook?  My hypothesis is that people who were [...]

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Not Using Google Reader? You should and here’s how

Posted on January 29th, 2009 at 05:00pm  |  10 comments

Google posted up a video guide that goes through how to use Google Reader. I posted about using Google Reader to keep up on your friends’ blogs back in 2007, but a lot of people have joined our little blogging circle since then. If you aren’t using a feed reader and still click through to [...]

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Post Shared Google Reader items in Wordpress

Posted on July 3rd, 2008 at 05:00pm  |  7 comments

You might be wondering what these “Shared” posts are. Most of my web surfing consists of reading my RSS subscriptions in Google Reader, all 146 of them. On a given day I might find one or two things that I think other people would want to read. Google Reader lets you share items with your [...]

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Web host migration complete

Posted on May 30th, 2008 at 05:00pm  |  4 comments

Finished moving myself, The Blarg and Mike over to the new host. We’ve got lots of space and bandwidth so just have to find something to do with it. If anyone is getting tired of their Blogger or Wordpress.com blogs and wants more flexibility I can hook you up. Blogger’s commenting system sucks so I [...]

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Tags and Categories

Posted on May 7th, 2008 at 05:02pm  |  2 comments

Tags have become a big part of Wordpress. Back in the day we had categories and that’s it. A user could search the site for keywords, but categorizing a post couldn’t be accomplished without a ton of categories. Recently I added a bunch of categories, reassigned my posts into them and ended up with a [...]

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