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Did Not Know It Was Blog Day

Aug 31 2008 / 6:44 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

It is Blog Day and I am ashamed I had no idea until I saw a post on Roundpeg. On blog day, the thing is to showcase 5 new blogs that you like and to let them know that you gave them a shout. I’m going to just list the blogs sans description, so its [...]

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Plea to Zemanta

Aug 8 2008 / 11:59 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

You guys are great. Lots of bloggers love your tool. Most of us even dig promoting you with a Zemified or Reblog link. My question is….when can we just make the Reblog link a permanent link in our blog templates, like a feed flare? Being steady users of the service, it is going to be [...]

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Bloggers On Vacation

Aug 5 2008 / 8:05 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

It is still summer. Usually nothing happens in the summer and everyone cuts back on blogging. Last summer Twitter kept everyone yammering on, and kept the posting up a bit at the beginning of this one. Now everyone is sick of posting about the same old stuff and many have decided to take extended blogging [...]

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WordPress 2.6 A Month Earlier Than Expected

Jul 15 2008 / 6:00 am Was written by Amber View Comments

Logged in to manage some plugins and WordPress told me to update it. Was not expecting that message for at least another month. There is a video detailing WordPress 2.6 (which I was going to talk about later this month at some point, but can’t be angry the gift was early) that I will include [...]

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WordPress In Your IPhone

Jul 11 2008 / 2:48 am Was written by Amber View Comments

Update 7/22 it is out. Now it is time to do your happy dance. There is now an official WordPress app for the IPhone. No more having to fight Safari to get that post in. Now mobile bloggers can handle their business on the fly at the various cons. And that also means bloggers on [...]

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Woopra : Stats or Crack ?

Jun 3 2008 / 8:11 am Was written by Amber View Comments

As a blogger, checking stats can be addictive sometimes. Woopra has been waiting in the wings to make your stat checking just a hair more excessive… in a good way. If you had already heard of Woopra, you have probably been drooling and waiting for your invite to process. Yesterday the Woopra blog dropped this [...]

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Naked Blogs Everywhere

Apr 8 2008 / 3:15 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

April 9th is CSS Naked Day. CSS Naked Day is setup to show some love to the folks that take the time to keep websites from looking terrible. I am still working on the least painful way to 86 the CSS in here for a day (I am only observing local time because my memory [...]

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