I first started blogging using one of my personal domains back in November 2003. Back then I was using mneylon.com as my main personal domain. Since then I switched over to michele.me and then, more recently, over to michele.blog. For historical reasons my blog used to live under "/blog", but when I moved over to michele.blog I moved it to the domain root. That means that … [Read more...] about Blogging, Writing and More
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Michele.blog Featured by DotBlog Domain Registry
The guys over at the .blog domain name registry have been doing a series of short posts to highlight or showcase "dotbloggers". My switch over to michele.blog as my main domain for my rather random blog posts was recently featured by them. You can read their post here. I made the move over to michele.blog early in January of this year, as I outlined here. Don and Paolo … [Read more...] about Michele.blog Featured by DotBlog Domain Registry
Switching Over to Michele.blog
As of today this blog has a new web address: michele.blog I'm delighted to have been able to get this domain and excited to be switching over to it. For the past 13+ years I've been blogging under /blog on a number of different domains. I started out with mneylon.com, but several years ago I upgraded to michele.me. However I still kept the old web structure, so apart from … [Read more...] about Switching Over to Michele.blog
Fixing and Debugging Rich Media Sharing on Facebook and Twitter
People tend to interact more with "rich" media than they do with plain text links. So when you share a link on Facebook, Twitter or other social media networks you'll find that those links that contain "media", such as images and video, will get more interactions. Apart from anything else, they'll stick out more on people's news feeds. If you're using Wordpress as your … [Read more...] about Fixing and Debugging Rich Media Sharing on Facebook and Twitter
Rebooting IrishBlogs.com
I've had the domain irishblogs.com for over a decade, since 2004 to be precise. It was, up until very recently, a rather rudimentary link directory. When I first put the site online I used to spend time and energy looking after it, along with many of the other sites I was running at the time. But over time I got busier with other projects and interests and couldn't spend as … [Read more...] about Rebooting IrishBlogs.com