Bloggers are absolutely bloody clueless – well except for my friends of course. But most of the bloggers out there really don’t know which way is up. Most bloggers bitch about one of two things: coming up with new ideas for their blogs or not getting paid to blog! The whole today.com fiasco had blame on both sides – there were an awful lot of bloggers who were convinced they were owed a living based on their inane, or even well-written, ramblings about their day-to-day life. (BTW if you were thinking why not to that last sentence – try putting up your own blog along these lines and living off the resulting revenue… ) Which brings me to the point of this post. I do some freelance work for an agency. That agency gives me articles which need to be placed on relevant blogs – that’s not so hard is it? After all most bloggers want unique content right? Actually absolutely not correct. I have kept a bit of a list and I find if I try to contact 10 blogs that look suitable the break down goes something like this 1 blog will have absolutely no way to contact [...] Read more »
MyStarterBlog: An Alternative to WordPress?
Guys – this is a neat new tool to create websites really easily, from a cool guy Steve McGrath over at McGrath Info Solutions. MyStarterBlog is an easy way to create a blog without all the overhead of WordPress – no database required! MyStarterBlog is a cool little program which allows you to upload a complete website – including content (which you have to provide of course) in one file. There is no database involved. There are a couple of advantages to this. It takes very little bandwidth or other resources from your host – it will run a lot faster than the equivalent site running WordPress or blogger. Although there is a comment facility (via email) – and most visitors will think the site is a blog (check out the example MyStarterBlog site here), its not a blog in the sense of spammers looking for a place to put their viagra ads in your comments! Runs out of the box with some themes pre-packaged but you can buy more themes or adapt whats available if you are prepared to hack some php. You don’t have to update your blog/theme/ widgets every time you login just to make a 5 [...] Read more »
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