The best free and sophisticated RSS tools

The past few weeks, I have been quite busy working with RSS feeds. I continue to be surprised about the possibilities RSS gives us, bloggers and web developers alike. Here is an overview of the tools I discovered: From RSS feed to Javascript: Feed2JS If you want to spice up a page on your website, [...]

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World Leaders on Facebook

Click on the image for the full picture. Illustration courtesy The Atlantic

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Selfhosting your blog. Or not?

In a previous post I touched on the subject of selfhosting in a series about selecting the blog platform suited for your needs. The subject is important enough to elaborate a bit more. When you start a blog, you have the choice of either using your blogservice to host your blog, or to rent server [...]

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Dilbert on digital dating

Waiting for the plane last week, I got bored and flipped through a used newspaper I found laying on one of the seats. Between news about inflation, strikes, H1N1 reports and sad stock markets I found the only thing in the whole paper that made me smile: this Dilbert.

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Automatic Email alerts for new backlinks to your blog

Sites linking back to your blog’s homepage or to a post, are a measure of success for a blog, as we explained before. It is always interesting to check the backlinks, to see what are others saying about your blog, what has been quoted or commented on. As you know, you can find backlinks via [...]

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How successful is your blog?

You created your blog, and write posts, write posts, write posts… Gradually, your audience grows. You get comments, get other bloggers linking to you,… Your blog has a lift-off. But how much of a lift-off? Are you flying in orbit, or are you barely clearing the tree tops? How do you measure your blog’s performance. [...]

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Using your blog real estate effectively

When you buy a piece of land, you have only a limited space to build the house of your dreams. When you design a blog, you have only a limited space to convey information. We call it “the blog real estate”. The most precious real estate is the top of your homepage, the part a [...]

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Compulsive blogging

This is sometimes how I feel Cartoon courtesy XKCD

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Selecting a blog platform – Part 1: A critical choice

Alright! You recognized your organisation can benefit from a blog and you know what you will blog about. The next step is critical: Choosing your blog platform, the “software” to edit, publish and host your blog. Choosing the right blog platform is critical. You might set out as “let me give this a decent try”, [...]

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Selecting a blog platform – Part 2: Selfhost or not?

After reading Part 1 in this series, you will agree with me that selecting the right blog platform, the software you will use to create and maintain your blog, is critical. Which of the four platforms we are considering will it be? WordPress, Tumblr, Typepad – Movable Type or Blogger? Your right selection will be [...]

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Selecting a blog platform – Part 3: Functionality

Part 1 of this series showed how critical it is to choose the blog platform suited for your needs, before you start. in Part 2, we covered one of the first questions you need to ask yourself: will I selfhost my blog or not? Today, we’re covering a topic which is just as critical in [...]

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