Category: weblogs

Anders Jacobsen has pledged to give money for every bloggers that links to the aid organizations or for anyone that gives money to any of these organizations. A good pledge if you ask me, so here is my small contribution with a list of organizations that you can donate money to and help the victims…… Continue reading More to the Tsunami victims

This is a new “trend” that I am seeing amongst some of the blogs I follow: People have started reading their keyword logs and begun answering the questions that their visitors obvisouly have. Mind you, some of the questions that end up in my logs I am sure most people would leave unanswered. I thought…… Continue reading Trouble finding content for your blog? Heres an idea: Make your blog into an answerblog

If you are into new and exciting food, then Oslo foodie is a blog you should take notice of. Unfortunatly I can’t tell who this blog belongs to, but it appears he/she must be a chef. There are some good links to other food blogs as well on the site. So if you are bored…… Continue reading Food blogging

For an explanation of what Podcasting is, see the definition at Wikipedia I haven’t really mentioned this new technology before. Partly because the content has been lacking – mostly in quality. And the platform used to be only Mac and iPod. To me the technology isn’t that exciting, its just push content with another carrier.…… Continue reading Podcasting maturing

Today I got this error message when killing yet another spam in my blog: “Could not save your blacklist data: Got a packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet'” Pretty interesting error message. It didn’t immediately dawn on me that this was a MySQL related problem, before I started googeling it. Google-search: max_allowed_packet= mysql The problem seems to…… Continue reading MT-Blacklist bug

A cool new blog has surfaced. Apperantly its Quentin Trantinos own blog (Old url no longer works, instead its a spam blog there – the old url was: http://qtdiary.blogspot.com/ ). If you want to “read all about it”, there is an article about QTs diary over at Wikipedia From the writing I have read so…… Continue reading Quentin Tarantino blog

If you ever find youself contemplating making your own blog tool, take a look at Anne Van Kestern’s spesification for a weblog tool: The perfect weblog system

Interesting research of how blogs are used by teenagers. BBC News: Teenagers reach out via weblogs Teenage boys and girls are using blogs, easily publishable online diaries, in many more similar ways than has been predicted, according to a study. Previous studies on gender and the net have suggested girls communicate better, and more often,…… Continue reading Teenage blogs

Forget file sharing, MP3 blogs are all the rage […]we have unashamed folks who are not afraid to provide you with a daily song that has been gracing their ears. Good stuff, big bands, and totally the definition of fair use I don’t know about fair use if the MP3s are rip’s of commercial songs,…… Continue reading MP3 blogs

Do you remember Usenet? Have you taken a fancy to Google Groups 2? (It really kicks ass. Fusing Usenet newsgroups, several corporate newsgroups and newsnets, mailinglists etc). Then you’ll love to hear that Google Groups 2 Beta now also features Atom feeds! Nick Bradbury: Google Groups 2: Usenet Atom Feeds Hey, just noticed that the…… Continue reading A wicked way to read newsgroups