Recently, we have added a forum to our ranks to give bloggers a platform where they could all meet, discuss things, and learn from each other. This is just one of the many services that Blog Flux has focused on for bloggers.
I am hoping that this will become a community for those reading Blogging [...]

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Lorelle is having issues with her web host, and wanted suggestions on what host to switch to. People have many answers, but they are sometimes conflicting. Is Dreamhost good or bad?
No, I’m not moving Lorelle on WordPress. In spite of the limitations, I adore blogging on my WordPress.com blog.
However, for over three years I’ve [...]

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LifeHacker has chosen ScribeFire for Firefox as their Download of the day, and I must agree with them.
Formerly known as Performancing for Firefox, the tool allows you to easily post to your blog from a browser window. Here is some text from LifeHacker on the plugin.
Like its predecessor, ScribeFire opens a split panel that [...]

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Well, my excitement was quickly over when I clicked that I wanted to add another Gravatar to my account. I was met with a message saying that I needed to upgrade my account to their Premium model to take advantage of such features.
Upgrade to Gravatar Premium for only US $10/Year!
Here’s what Premium gets you:

Unlimited emails [...]

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Introduction
We hear about a new technology more and more every day. Most people that blog understand what RSS is and what it means, but most of the rest of the world has still not joined the RSS revolution. They browse through sites, looking for content they like, and then bookmarking it. With no way of [...]

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Terry Ng has written up his thoughts on what every blogger should have, and while I agree with some of what he has written, I must admit that many things in the list are out of this problogger’s price range. He lists things like an Apple MacBook Pro, Two Apple 23″ LCD Screens, and a [...]

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WordPress needs a MySQL database, unfortunately that doesn’t always work for those without access to one, and now a solution is being created called FlatPress.
While the name sounds similar to WordPress, and some of the look and feel might be the same, the creator assures us that it is a different beast, though he [...]

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What is it?
Habari is a new blog engine. The name comes from the Swahili word that means “what’s the news?” Unlike other blog software currently on the market, Habari will be using more current technologies like object oriented programming techniques, thanks to PHP 5, and some slick interface interactions thanks to AJAX from the prototype [...]

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Unless you are one of the most talked about bloggers online, this widget might not mean much to you. Techorati has released a widget that will allow you to display the number of links to each on of your posts in more or less real-time.
Imagine if you could display the number of links to each [...]

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Over the next year or two, I would really love to see WordPress or another tool evolve to the point that expressing my thoughts, opinions and articles on the web is not only easier, but more effective.
Currently, when I publish a post that post is published on my site, and a variety of sites [...]

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If you’re monetizing your blog or blog network using AdSense, it might be a good idea to check whether you’re getting low-paying clicks from made-for-AdSense (MFA) sites. I came across a post on johnchow.com that explains how you lose and MFA sites win from their advertising cheap on your sites. I used to think that [...]

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The folks over at PMachine are letting everyone know that they are now working full tilt on ExpressionEngine 2.0, a revamped system that will show off AJAX effects, and a better templating system and hopefully just an all around updated, and more powerful EE experience.
The article on the shift is pretty long, but here is [...]

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Paul Kedrosky of Infectious Greed recenty said that the world needs a new blogging tool, and that none of the current tools are good enough.
SixApart’s MovableType’s cumbersome legacy code prevents it from being all that it could be, and Matt & Toni at WordPress could use the competition (and they don’t have it all [...]

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Vox is a service by the same people that made Typepad and Movable Type. It is a mix between a social networking service and a blogging application.
The Blog Herald says:
If one were to remove the ugliness from MySpace, add in the simplicity of Google as well as the rich features of Yahoo!, you would [...]

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Using thumbnails to give your readers a preview of websites is cool, but it’s a drag to have to make screencaps yourself, and it’s even worse that screencaps are static. Fortunately, WebSnapr offers a free service that automatically captures a thumbnail image of (almost) any website just by appending the site’s address to WebSnapr’s URL.
Just [...]

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If you love WordPress, and need some forum software, you might want to check out bbPress, which was released four days ago as version 0.72, much like WordPress’ beginnings, but bbPress is said to be much more polished than the start of WordPress by far.
The moment you’ve all been waiting for has arrived. bbPress has [...]

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A while back, I ranted about how my Bloglines feeds page keeps on making Firefox display that “unresponsive script” warning due to the long time the Javascript takes to process the information–I have about 650+ feeds, not all of which I get to read on a regular basis. I have since then manually lengthened the [...]

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Along with sheer creativity, one of a problogger’s best resources are his/her feed subscriptions. You can get a lot of ideas from current events or from what other people are saying. A feedreader definitely makes life easier, as it helps one monitor favorite blogs without necessarily having to visit each site. Of course, this nifty [...]

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One of the biggest pet peeves of Google’s search bar that you can put on your pages to search Google’s index or your own site is that it brings you to an external Google page, rather than keeping people on your own sites.
Google has rectified this problem recently in making it so that the [...]

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The Blog Studio, well known for their WordPress blog designs for popular Blog Networks like B5Media, have released a list of resources, some of which they mentioned on a recent Tech TV appearance.
For those who watched the episode on Tech TV, here are the list of resources that I discussed. For those that haven’t – [...]

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