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Posted on November 12, 2009 - Filed Under Blogging - Leave a Comment

I’ve been blogging for a few years now. Up till this point, I’m still trying to figure what draws people to comment on blogs and what sort of comments they draw.
Niche blogs aside, right now, it looks pretty much to me that the blogs that blog about nothing are the ones getting the most attention. [...]

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Where have all the free themes gone?

Posted on October 26, 2009 - Filed Under Blogging, PU, Web Development, Web Necessities, Zzub - 1 Comment

I’m not sure if it’s just me or if free Wordpress themes are becoming more scarce these days? For the past few months, I’ve been searching on and off for free Wordpress themes, the only ones I use. Sponsored themes are out for me.
I can’t afford to pay for a theme or for someone to [...]

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Don’t blow it, earn it!

Posted on October 4, 2009 - Filed Under Blogging - Leave a Comment

I’m not sure what it is that makes people think that dropping a completely meaningless comment with a link into a blog post would earn them anything more than the quickest hit on the ‘delete’ button.
My advice to these folks is that if you really want to earn yourself some respect in blogosphere, what you [...]

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When a plugin blows

Posted on September 21, 2009 - Filed Under Blogging - Leave a Comment

One of the scariest things is when you click to upgrade a WP plugin and it blows up your entire blog. I’ve just had that happen to me *shudder*. For a few hours, I couldn’t think what to do as I desperately tried to deactivate the plugin. But guess what? By then, I couldn’t even [...]

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We’re back and we’re good!

Posted on August 19, 2009 - Filed Under Blogging, Customer Service, Lessons in Business, Technology - 1 Comment

If you surfed by over the past few days and noticed this blog was ‘temporarily suspended’, it wasn’t because I did anything to deserve the punishment. My web host tells me we’ve overloaded their server and they had to shut us down so as not to impact the other sites. Yeah, right, for close to [...]

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