Category Archives: Blogging

I have been resisting signing up to StumbleUpon due to productivity reasons. I caved earlier in the week. There is some really cool stuff out there! If you have not used it and don’t mind losing a few hours I recommend signing up. Along a similar fashion for a bit of fun I have alsoContinue reading “Random pages and Stumbleupon”

I get lots of people ask me about RSS, what is it, why would I use it, and how would I use it. My plan was to write a short primer, but why do that when I can reuse! Here is an old but good intro to RSS from Lee Lefever from Common Craft, theContinue reading “RSS 101”

Over the last couple of weeks I have been running a little usability experiment on my blog. Using Crazy Egg to measure what visitors have been doing, where they have been going and hopefully let me know how to make the blog a better place. Read/Write Web has a great run down on what youContinue reading “Crazy Egg heats up my blog”

Over the last week or so there has been some renewed interest in the top blogs in Australia, first was Craig Harper’s Ultimate Australian Blogroll. Then Meg from dLook pulled together a really good view of the Australian blogosphere taking Technorati and Alexa rankings to come up with the Top 100 Australian Blogs, she hasContinue reading “Top Australian blogs”

Last night I received a letter from Domain Registry of America about renewing a couple of my domains.  Not so strange except they are NOT my domain registrar!! Once again we seem to have someone in Australia trying to scoop up domain registrations through not the most honest of tactics.

For the first time in a few weeks I checked how many of you were actually subscribed to this blog. I was also wondering has the recent inclusion in Google Reader statistics increased the number of reported readers, assuming it will not decrease them.  The numbers have jumped up by 23%!  The break down ofContinue reading “Feed stat’s”