Dipping into the Blogpond

I have been tagged by Leigh at Crazy Meezer to be the recipient of Ilker’s “Thinking Blogger Award“. The rules of participation are: 1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think, 2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the […]

Happy Mother’s Day to all the other mums out there! I thought I’d share a couple of delightful Mother’s Day cards I got today from my two youngest daughters. From my 5 year old And from my 4 year old (read “world”). I recommend viewing A Mother’s Journey: 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (via […]

The Top 100 Australian Blogs Index has been updated. Debuting, or re-appearing, in the list this week are http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling http://toolmantim.com http://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/agb http://blogpond.com.au http://simone.pascalsimone.com http://the-riotact.com http://www.francislee.com.au http://altnews.com.au/drop I have made a change in calculating the index – if there is no Australian Alexa Rank, then the blog is not included on the list. Alexa ranks over […]

Choosing a blog theme is bloody hard work if you are going to do it right. Recently I said “Not all themes are equal“. I thought I had chosen a solid theme, it turns out I was wrong. After a couple of days, this is how Google saw my blog. Note that in the Google […]

Google are rolling out a new interface for their Google Analytics, and it certainly looks different! In case you’re concerned you can still access the old interface for “at least a month” to allow you time to familiarise yourself with the new design. According to an email from Google the new features are as follows: […]

Following on from Moving from a WordPress.com to a Self hosted Domain, below are a few of the pros and cons, and suggestions I have found when migrating blogs. ADVANTAGES Ownership Ownership of your domain – it’s yours, nobody can take that away (well, unless you forget to renew your domain or pay your hosting […]

Chatting (well swapping emails) with Mick (Cruftbucket) Real, he tells me that he’s been put in charge of organising the Brisbane Weblogger Meetup (which is his first at either attending or organising). Date:      20 June 2007 Time:     7.00 pm Where:   Jade Buddah, 1 Eagle Street (Eagle Street Pier) Shop 14, Brisbane Wear:     Something […]

As you are no doubt aware, I have just migrated my blog from WordPress.com to a self hosted (Australian) domain. This move has not been without frustration, especially for someone who is not particularly savvy in the matters of FTP, SSH, CSS, PHP, XTML, .htaccess, plug-ins, 666 permission access… it’s all geek to me. BUT, […]

It’s not quite finished yet and there are a few broken bits (and I have to finish the blogroll too). Let me know what you think. I’m too exhausted to write any more

I noticed that there are some changes over at Technorati in the way they are reporting. Blogs are now given an “authority” figure (which I gather is the number of blogs linking to it). See screenshot below They used to be reported as such So, the larger the “authority” and the lower the “rank” the […]