Dipping into the Blogpond

Weekly update from Dipping into the Blogpond 9 August, 2007

Copyright and plagiarism are growing concerns for bloggers. How do you avoid infringing copyright, and what do you do if someone steals your content?

I haven’t posted a video for a while so I thought I’d include this ad for Fosters Beer that I was sent recently. Who says Aussie men aren’t chivalrous? Fosters, apparently!

I finally got the latest WordPress Upgrade(s) installed today (2.2.2) – it was way overdue, as Dane at BlogStrokes keeps reminding me. I have a couple of little console hiccups, but nothing that should affect the site from operating. Sorry if you visited earlier and the site was down. This is how it looked for […]

When you first start blogging, more than likely you have no idea what you’re doing, whether your blog will be successful, or whether you’ll even stick with it.

You’ll probably read advice that it’s a good idea to start on one of the free platforms – like Blogger, WordPress or TypePad. It’s hard to dispute this advice, because they are an excellent platform for learning the ropes. However, for many bloggers there comes a time when they think, should I be thinking about my own domain?….

Is your Australian blog a hobby or a business? Should you register a business name? Should you apply for an ABN, or register for GST?

Can anyone explain why my blog reactions have disappeared from Technorati? 0 Blog reactions, although authority remains. Anyone else’s disappeared? My other blogs are unaffected.

Wondering if anyone else is seeing search engine referrals under general referrers rather than “Search Engine Terms”? Didn’t see any announcement from WordPress. It makes the referrers list rather long, but on the other hand you can see exactly which search engine was used and the exact term, which is handy.

1. New blogs debuting in the Top 100 Australian Blogs Dr Nic 2. New blogs on the Australian Blogs Community My Opinions are Important SEO Blog Semantically Driven (Updated URL) Reminder: Anybody who would like to add (or update) the Aussie blogs from Bumpzee to their blogroll can find an A to Z list and […]

iYomu.com is a site labeled as “Social Networking for Grown Ups”. It has received funding from fifty investors in seven different countries, and it has been two years in the making.