So I’ve been looking for ways to extract some amount of revenue out of this blog. There’s a trickle coming in, but it’s not much and my hobbies are getting increasingly expensive.
A few months ago, I noticed that Google was offering ads that could be delivered via your RSS feed. I had a [...]
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Monetizing An RSS Feed – Fail #1
May 12th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Web Development
Tags: blogs·monetization
Wordpress Upgrade
December 20th, 2008 · 12 Comments · Web Development
I’ve finally updated to Wordpress 2.7. I won’t even tell you how far behind I was in my updates because it’s rather embarrassing. Let’s just say I wasn’t quite with the 2.0 crowd yet.
I have to say that I’m absolutely floored to see the massive UI improvements and was shocked to find how [...]
Non-Automated Spam On The Rise
July 8th, 2008 · 29 Comments · Web Development
It’s a little sad to see because I’m a big supporter of the do-follow movement. Unfortunately the temptation to spam seems to be too appealing/profitable to ignore for many. Akismet is continuing to do a standup job of filtering spam, but it simply can’t keep up with people employed to spam.
At this point [...]
Namespace Collision
November 16th, 2006 · Comments Off · Web Development
It seems that after installing the sitemap plugin I had a namespace collision with my sitemap plugin. I had created a sitemap page that used the slug sitemap. Then when the sitemaps plugin wrote out files called sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz. I’m not sure exactly how wordpress deals with these kinds of things, [...]
Pros And Cons Of Blogging
November 14th, 2006 · Comments Off · Web Development
While I’ve already discussed the pros and cons of blogging as compared to writing articles in an article about blogs vs articles, one of the topics I failed to treat altogether are the pros and cons of blogging as compared to doing nothing at all.
The question of whether or not to write anything at all [...]
Tags: blogs
Finding Content For Your Website
November 9th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Web Development
When I speak to people who are interested in the web and web technologies, I often ask if they have a website of their own. A surprising amount of them don’t. To me it’s a bit like being a mechanic without a car, a chef with no kitchen, a gardener with no garden. [...]