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Growing Importance Of Geographical Location On The Internet
November 22, 2009
Wordpress is one of the biggest blogging platforms on the planet with over 7.5 million bloggers using their hosted service. Recently, they rolled out geo-tagging, which allows you to label your blog and blog posts by location, with the promise of new features coming soon.
The ability to search by area as well as “showing the location of your commenters, the location of poll votes, a live map view of blog updates on WordPress.com, or an annual report showing you where your posts were written and where your comments came from” will gradually be implemented and highlight the growing importance of location in the digital age.
Continue reading »Windows Live Essentials Review: Writer (Blogging Client)
November 20, 2009
If you run a blog of your own, you may will be interested to know that Windows Live Essentials ships with a very capable blog editor called Windows Live Writer. When you start Writer for the first time, you’ll need to set Writer up to publish to your blog, and that’s virtually any blog service you may use, not just Microsoft’s ‘Live Spaces’.
You can set it up to publish to Live Spaces, SharePoint and ‘Other blog service’ which includes Blogger and WordPress. Once you’ve selected whichever applies to you, just input the requested information and hit next. For a service like WordPress, you need your URL and username / password, whereas for a Windows service like spaces, you just need your Windows Live ID and Password.
Continue reading »How To Use Twitter Lists
October 26, 2009
One of the biggest complaints about Twitter has been the absence of groups which would allow tweeters to sort their followers into categories, making it easier to manage a large number. That’s about to change with the introduction of Lists. At the moment, Twitter Lists are only available to a small number of users, but they will become universal once the testing period is over. If you aren’t lucky enough to be getting a sneak preview, read on …
How To Import A Blogspot Blog Into WordPress
October 8, 2009
One of the most common reasons Blogspot users give for not switching to WordPress, is the hassle of transferring a large number of posts from an already established blog. In the past they did have a point, but not anymore. For some time WordPress (both Wordpress.org and Wordpress.com) has come with a built in importer which works with all well known blogging platforms, as well as plain RSS. It’s very easy to use – just a few clicks – and will call in both posts and comments. If you’re thinking of making the switch, but are unsure about the importing process, read on …
