The Global Syndicator - blogging

WordPress for iPhone is here

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:38:59 +0000

WordPress for iPhone is here. I just tested it and there appears to be some bugs still. When I setup my blog on the iPhone app, it auto inserted a couple of blank posts that did not have anything in them. Hopefully we’ll see an update soon ;-) One bigger issue is that the iPhone still [...]

Do Not Upgrade to WP 2.6 Unless You Have Tons of Time to Fix It

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:42:19 +0000

An upgrade to the latest Wordpress 2.6 almost put Tech Pedia out of action. To my utmost shock, all the categories residing on my site went missing after the upgrade. A message kept flashing on my WP dashboard asking me to upgrade for the past few days. The installer package was downloaded from the website [...]

Sweetcron: A Blogging Engine that Updates Your Entire Internet Activity

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:08:25 +0000

It sounds scary when our internet movements are tracked and worse, blogged. It might just be a nightmare-come-true with Sweetcron blogging engine which is due to hit mainstream in the coming days. Sweetcron is capable of synchronizing and recording your activities on the internet. Whether you upload a photo on flickr or bookmark a favorite [...]

Is how we find blog aritcles changing?

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:10:15 +0000

Blogger Louis Gray has been studying the referrals to his blog and has noticed that getting linked to by a large blog site or influential blogger doesn't drive the same level of traffic as it used to. The move in traffic generation has been to the aggregators like Techmeme, Reddit, Digg etc. There is also a large shift towards readers consuming content through RSS readers rather than always coming direct to the website.

The Limitations of Virtual or Shared Hosting

Sat, 03 May 2008 16:14:12 +0000

When someone decides to start a blog or to simply create a family website it is very common for the person who is in charge of running the site to do some research about companies which provide a computer capable of serving web pages to visitors, most people don’t need to use a lot of [...]

Is your Wordpress Blog Hacked?

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:18:39 +0000

If you have not updated in a while you may want to have a look at your templates and upgrade your installs. If you read the linked article don’t skip the comments.

This is another of many reasons why this site has remained on MovableType.

The DeCentralized Me!

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:36:02 +0000

Over the past 4–5 years in writing this blog I have always been concerned about services that cause consumers of this content to get connected through a third party service.

As many of you I have signed up for most of the social networking services, for me anyways as more as a point of interest, that connects me with the family of consumers of this content, that I, and my team produce. If you read this blog on a regular basis you will know it is intermixed with Rich media containing Audio Podcast, Blog Post and Video.

Journalists morphing into bloggers

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:49:02 +0000

An interesting post on Wired about the way journalism is changing in the face of new media. Not that unexpected a perspective from a magazine that has morphed into something more like a blog itself. The gist is essentially that news media is becoming more of a service than a product with the major news publications being more of a consolidator that directs readers/watchers to where the news is located.

Congrats to Six Apart on Movable Type going Open Source

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:02:41 +0000

As a long-time user of Movable Type, I'm glad to see it going fully Open Source now . That's only going to help this great platform continue to evolve.

Blogenomics

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:14:21 +0000

The discussions about PPP over the past weeks have me thinking about how Bloggers can turn their effort into reward. The difficulty that smaller bloggers have in monetising their blogs is no secret, and while there is no reason that any blogger should be able to make money from their content it would be better if there was some link between quality of content and reward.

Translations of my blog posts available...

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:15:16 +0000

This is a bit of site news, which really doesn't happen a lot around here. File this in the "meta" category, I guess. My blog is now available in numerous non-English languages thanks to the folks at TechCzar . They approached me a couple months ago about a partnership that'd provide content from my blog in other languages as part of their blog network . In return for that, I've added a banner to the top of the site that contains several links to TechCzar along with national flags that link to the translated content.

TechCrunch RSS Advertising is the Worst

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:02:32 +0000

Tonight while getting ready for my Podcast I removed a RSS feed from my regular reading list because of excessive advertising in the feed. I'm serious -- the stupid ad TechCrunch has after every article in the feed measures 612 pixels in height.

My BlogWorld Expo Wrap up Thoughts

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:04:39 +0000

It appears there was some serious mis-communications in regards to Michael Arrington’s appearance at Blogworld. One of the reasons I attend some of these events is that I come to hear specific people speak. The mix up in Michael and several others that did not show did not concern me but I was somewhat surprised and others were disappointed.

Blog World Expo Day 2 Live Blogging

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:39:27 +0000

Ok folks here we go for day two of the Blog World Expo. Thus far my impressions is that even though the organizers had tracks for podcasting the folks exhibiting and in the sessions appear to be bloggers looking at podcasting.

Live Blogging the Blog World Expo

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:37:18 +0000

Live Blogging Blog World Expo

08:44
-First thing huge number of Bloggers and No Power Strips
-Keynote area is going to be standing room only

08:54
-Matt from Wordpress is is rehashing how Wordpress got started I am not sure why a bunch of bloggers need to be told about the wordpress history are we not all bloggers and supposed to know this stuff.