Dipping into the Blogpond

It is now possible to easily geographically target your website (or subdomain) to a specific location (i.e. “pages from Australia”), using Google webmaster tools.

Media Snackers are young people who consume “Wherever, Whenever and Whatever” they like. They are also likely to create as much as they consume…. How do you respect Media Snackers?

In what is hardly a surprise, Tarisai Vushe has been voted out of Australian Idol this week (29 October).

A favicon is a tiny little image (icon) relating to the website you are visiting, that appears in the address bar (and on a tab, if you’re using a tabbed browser like Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox). This article will show you how to make and add a favicon to your blog.

Australian Idol review for 28 October. Tarisai Vushe appears to be troubled.

For over 24 hours now, I’ve had no access to StumbleUpon. It appears as if only BigPond Customers are affected. I really don’t understand how a network can just block access to a website as if it doesn’t exist…

I’m not entirely sure what’s going on at Google, but it appears that the long over due general PageRank Update is in fact underway. But probably the most telling sign is that previously unranked blogs, like this one, are now showing a rank in the data centres. It’s not yet reflected in the toolbar.

Many website owners are feeling a little raw over the second PageRank drop in a month.

I think the term “bohica”, while a little crass, may well sum up the way many blog owners are feeling at the moment. So here’s a little banner.

Australian women bloggers are often heralded as being an under-represented segment of the blogging community, so it’s great to see a list promoting the top 50 women’s blogs.

Thanks to the wonders of widgetry, and someone obviously much more clever than I, I can simply plug all the feed names into a little FeedBurner count widget and voila! the feed subscriber counts appear magically.