It really is in a right old state. I have a Netvibes tab called ‘UK’. It has a solitary, uninspiring, dry news feed from the BBC. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy a lot of blogs from UK authors. Some are (Scottish) technical types in the Oracle blogging community with a sense of humour while others are Brits who have moved to foreign shores or very talented and dedicated WordPress techies....
Norman Brightside, a little known UK blogger from the London (near England), was reeling yesterday from a cataclysmic, violent (yet unwanted) backlash of media inspired attention from Web 2.0 types in response to the impromptu and inadvertent release of 1367 GB of search data (including IP addresses, referrer data, explicit search terms and agent identifiers) from the Web server farm that hosts his incredibly popular blog. Brightside is an IT genius who had developed his Web server tracking technology using advanced AI techniques to include the screen name of the AOL user, the room they were actually surfing from, what they were actually thinking, the strength of each individual key press together with the facial expression used when typing in search terms....
I was enjoying a scan through the archives of Andrew Sherman’s incisive, witty (and occasionally downright scary) blog when I suddenly thought ‘Hey Andrew - where are the links ?’ Then I realised. The hyperlinks are actually embedded in the title which is exactly where they should be. At last. After 7 months, I have finally discovered something useful you can do in Blogger which is not (currently) supported in WordPress....
Finally. All that painstaking effort creating multiple splogs, scribbling my blog URL on whiteboards at every client I visit, commenting twice daily on the ‘A’ listers, spamming the newsgroups and bribing people for inbound links has paid off. This humble blog has finally broken through the 100,000 barrier. Day 324. Technorati Rank: 96,498 (56 links from 32 sites) Poor old Doug (a lowly 1,389,569) needs to pull his finger out. My life is complete....
Sshh. Please don’t tell my therapist but BlogPulse matches the tone, content and links of this blog with ' Laura’s Playground' which is dedicated to ‘Transsexual and Transgendered News’. I think I need to put my favourite pink panties on and sit down with a cold drink.
One of the things I like about WordPress is the sense of community. Wordpress users (and developers) willingly help each other out on the support forums. There is also a FAQ with useful information for newcomers and experienced users alike. You can find similar, related WordPress blogs of interest usings tags and you can also discover new material by examining the league tables of the most popular WordPress blogs, individual articles and the fastest growing blogs over on botd....
Collin from that esteemed, well respected publication ‘The Blog Review’ was kind enough to review this humble blog and raised the thorny question of an ‘About’ page. The absence of an ‘About’ page is one of Collin’s pet hates and Lorelle also thinks they are very important. While I agree that background information about the author may be interesting and contact details may be useful for establishing dialog that isn’t suited for comments, I don’t think that the lack of an ‘About’ page is necessarily a habit of an ineffectual blogger....
Describing your state of mind. I really don’t care whether you are happy, sad, somewhere inbetween or suicidal because your girlfriend dumped you. Describing your state of health. I really don’t want to read about your flu like symptoms, your hangover, your runny nose or your migraine headache. Otherwise you will give me one. Telling me what music you are listening to. You like your music. I like my music....
Apologies to all you Oracle Bloggers. Excessive traffic levels to my new Web journal on Blogger appears to have breached the ’tipping point’ and tipped it right over the edge. Blogger is unavailable (again). Two nights running. Hmm.
…and it really hurt. I continue to be intrigued by this article (I have now read it 67 times and still can’t make any sense of it whatsoever). I simply love the title so I thought I would blatantly plagiarise it. I also adore the Anonymous comments of ‘Not bad’ and ‘Nice job’. Damned with faint praise. Anyway, my shiny new blog in question is over here. Before you gleefully note that I have finally seen the light and have reverted to Blogger, this is simply an experiment to look at the Google Analytics dashboard and various detailed traffic reports....