Archive for Blog Tech

Change your Wordpress Admin theme

WPCandy.com is an excellent blog for anyone who has anything at all to do with anything to do with the Wordpress blogging platform.
They ran an article recently on how to change the Wordpress backend Administration theme and four alternatives you can choose from.
Though the look of Wordpress version 2.5 is much different to previous versions [...]

Posted by: Andy on Monday, June 23rd, 2008

You CAN make money by blogging!

There’s money in them thar blogs!
Izea has been an innovative, market leader in helping bloggers finance their work (and in some cases turn a passion into a job) for a long time now.
Until now PayPerPost has been their most famous project. They just publicly launched SocialSpark, a brilliant new network and resource for bloggers and [...]

Posted by: Andy on Friday, June 6th, 2008

Woopra - Freaking Great Site Analytics

When Woopra says it’s "The World’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application" it’s completely right!
I’m sooooo excited about this one!
I admit, I got my site approvals last night for beta testing and wondered what on earth Woopra is and what I had signed for. I had totally [...]

Posted by: Andy on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Experimental: Find bloggers near you

Michael Arrington posted an interesting article on TechCrunch recently about the future of Social Networking.
This is something I often think of. I ponder regularly about it.
MyBlogLog launched an experiment at SXSW this year that uses Bluetooth to find other bloggers in your immediate vicinity.
The idea is that, once installed on your laptop [...]

Posted by: Andy on Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Is blogging killing you?

There was an article in the New York Times recently about the stresses of Blogging and the World Wide Web.
The article mentioned three of the blogosphere’s top bloggers who died suddenly from heart conditions. Apparently other bloggers aren’t sleeping, are loosing weight and suffering from many other disorders.
With an office at least you [...]

Posted by: Andy on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008