Hello folks. J. Angelo Racoma here signing in. I’m not sure if you remember me, but a couple of years back, I was blogging here alongside David Peralty, when Blogging Pro was still owned by the Bloggy Network. Sometime late 2007, Blogging Pro was acquired by Splashpress Media (a new media company which I eventually […]

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As you can see, we have added a video from Dell that highlights how big corporations aren’t always forward thinking enough to make the right choices and that young people know best when it comes to new technology. Okay, maybe they didn’t mean that last part, but being only twenty-five, I’d like to think that […]

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Read how it turned out on eXtra for Every Publisher.
I am planning on using Ustream.tv tomorrow for a live video questions and answers section. I am hoping to talk about WordPress, my blogging career, advertising, marketing and all of those fun things. If you have some questions you would love answered, and I might know […]

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As you may have noticed, we have been having server issues here at Blogging Pro.
I want to apologize to everyone. It seems the new server we are on isn’t working out for us. Hopefully, we will have all of these issues resolved soon, and I am very sorry for any inconvenience or nuisance this […]

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Bloggy Network has started another blog network focused on local blogging.
Here are some details about the network from the Bloggy Network blog:

As such, Bloggy Network is very proud to launch a new mini-network centered around local cities called ‘is My Home‘. We have started out in nine cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Houston, […]

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So, I just realized, thanks to a comment, that I wasn’t getting Blogging Pro’s contact messages. I figured I was doing something wrong, that reader participation was down, but really what had happened is that I had the contact form submitting the information to my Gmail account, and since it was getting used to spam […]

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Bloggy Network is looking for some new people to add to its ranks, specifically bloggers that want to talk about the cities they live in. Local bloggers in major US cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Houston can contact us at local[at]bloggynetwork.com.
Again, we are looking for local bloggers from major US cities, so if […]

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Ahmed has begun a series on Tech Soapbox which is covering all the in’s and out’s of Bloggy Network, the company that owns, and maintains Blogging Pro.
So far he has written three posts, which cover the creation of the network, a major component of the network, Blog Flux, and some details on our server infrastructure.
Ahmed […]

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Continuing from our last success with the Blogging Pro theme, we wanted to continue to release themes for WordPress that had a strong sense of design, and so with the help of Design Disease, we have worked on creating InSense, a two column theme with the popular blue and orange color set that the web […]

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So the Blogging Pro Theme has been circulating for a while now, and has even been transformed into a Textpattern theme, but has anyone gone beyond uploading and activating it? Yes, and we have some examples for you.
Adding in their own header graphic as well as changing the colors around is Caracasapie.

Another shift in colors […]

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If you are a fan of WordPress Widgets from Automattic, and were disappointed that we didn’t include Widget support for the Blogging Pro theme, you are in luck, as we have decided to release a Widget Ready version.
We have made it so both sidebars, and the footer area are enabled so that you can […]

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Second Update: We have added a Widget Ready version and we are looking for support from WordPress.com users in getting it added to the service.
Updated: We have implemented some fixes in our theme, and so if you have already downloaded the theme, we ask that you at least download a new header.php (zip/phps) file.
The below […]

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No, you aren’t going crazy, we have made some major tweaks to the design once again, though not as major as last time, this new design should improve readability among other things. I want to again thank Elena of DesignDisease, and hope you’ll all join me in welcoming the new design.
I don’t know about all […]

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Well, I have finally come to a problem that I don’t have an immediate response for. I am looking for your help to fix. I have a blog where I moved it from Movable Type to WordPress, and it has tons of comment spam on its posts. I was wondering if anyone knew of an […]

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Mashups for Non-Programmers
The big topic of interest was Yahoo! Pipes, a new service from Yahoo! that allows you to manage RSS feeds and do some interesting things.
You can clone pipes and modify them, and you can merge feeds together and filter them based on content.
While it was an interesting session one of the most important […]

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That’s right, we here at Bloggy Network are looking for the creme of the crop in WordPress plugin makers to come and help us out with a plugin we need. It is a paid gig, and requires knowledge of Yahoo!’s search API.
If you are interested in the project, please leave a comment here with […]

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Well, as great as Akismet is, it doesn’t seem to be saving Blogging Pro from the recent spam attacks, and so now I have the fun job of adding more plugins to the mix, and hoping they don’t fight with each other.
I will be dealing with the spam the best I can, and I hope […]

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Well, over on the Blog Herald, the new owners have revealed themselves, and its the Bloggy-Network that bought the site. No…I don’t mean us. I mean the UK Bloggy-Network. See the dash…that makes them different and should quell any confusion.
This post, as much as any other tone it has, should serve as a warning. Just […]

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Some great news today for all of you out there looking to get into blogging, Bloggy Network is on the hunt for some new blood, and so if you are interested in blogging about lifestyle hacks, a fan of the best televisions shows out there, a gearhead that can tell the difference between a 2001 […]

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The time has come though to add a few more great bloggers to the mix. I have been working for the Bloggy Network for over a year now, and I really enjoy it.
So, if you are passionate about AJAX, TV Shows, Automobiles, or Finance/Money Management, Bloggy Network is looking for you. We have positions […]

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