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Blogging For Dummies – Check Your Comments

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If you are running a high profile blog people will submit comments.If you don't act on the comments ie. moderating them so that they get published (or marked as spam) people will get annoyed, frustrated and simply move on.It doesn't take that much time to check comments and if you don't do it why the hell are you even pretending to run a blog? To jump on the web 2.0 fanboy … [Read more...] about Blogging For Dummies – Check Your Comments

156935 lines

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What's the significance of that number?It's the number of lines in the Wordpress "XML" export that I used to migrate from Wordpress to Movabletype.I put the XML in inverted commas as it doesn't validate. You have to "massage" it quite a bit to get rid of junk and make it pass a simple validation test.Thanks to Niall for pointing me in the direction of XML Starlet, which is a … [Read more...] about 156935 lines

The Future of Irish Blog Aggregators and services

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What's going to happen with Irish blog aggregators and services?IrishBlogs.info, which I run, is busy enough, but is a resource hog. IrishBlogs.ie has been revamped, but any comments I've seen about it have been far from complimentary.PlanetoftheBlogs became planet.journals.ie and seems to have died offIs there a future for these sites / services or is everyone simply using … [Read more...] about The Future of Irish Blog Aggregators and services

MailPlane Invites Anyone?

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David Raynes sent me an invite to MailPlane, so I've got a few invites up for grabs.If you want one please let me know - I've only got a couple!What is it?It's a Mac OSX app that hooks into Gmail basically.I haven't had a chance to really play with it and as I don't really use my Gmail account I can't see me being a heavy user any time soon, but it has some nice little … [Read more...] about MailPlane Invites Anyone?