by psionmark on April 14, 2008
Darren from ProBlogger has come up with another great idea - an unofficial Blogger Appreciation day.
It’s all too easy to read all those posts every day in your favourite RSS reader without giving any real thought to the time and effort that has gone into them. As bloggers ourselves, we should appreciate it more than anyone, but it’s all too easy to take all that data and insight for granted.
So, I’d like to publicly say a big thanks to Darren for all his past work. I’ve incorporated many of his tips into my blogs and always look forward to reading his posts.
In addition to Darren, I’d also like to say thanks to some of my regular reads:
Thanks for all the daily info, folks and keep on blogging!
by psionmark on March 16, 2008
I dearly love my MacBook Pro, but one thing I’m struggling to find is a good blog editor. By good, I mean as good as Windows Live Writer.
I’ve tried many blog editors for the Mac, but none offer the ease of use and functionality of WLW. I’ve been using Qumana for quite a while and I think it’s the best of the bunch, but it really doesn’t like it when you write a post and save it for later use. At best, it seems to lose all the formatting and, at worst, it loses half the post. Not good.
So, I’m now writing this with WLW under Windows XP using VMWare’s Fusion for Mac. And it works a treat. I’m using it in Unity mode, so WLW just appears as a window in my lovely shiny OSX like any other application.
Yes, it means going back to Windows daily for my posts, but I can live with that with Fusion. At least until something better comes along native to the Mac.
So, over to you! Let me know about all those lovely Mac blog editors that I haven’t found yet!
by psionmark on March 15, 2008
I’m not sure whether this is good news, or bad, but my lad (who’s 10) has decided to turn his hand to blogging!
He’s blogging on the subject of the stupidity of various decisions at his school. I’ve told him not to use any real names or places!
I know I’m biased, but it is funny (I’ve had a word with him about the typos). He’d be delighted if I could get a few visitors for him, so head over there now and put a smile on his face 
I’m pretty sure he doesn’t yet know how to track where visitors have come from, although I could be wrong.
by psionmark on November 14, 2007
I’ve decided to give BlogRush another try. I’m not sure what it is, but there’s something about it I miss.
So, assuming they accept me back in (!), expect to see the return of the widget!
by psionmark on October 31, 2007
Further to yesterday’s post about BlogRush, they must have heard me, as their new Dashboard is now in place. I’m glad it’s there now, as it’s shown me what a waste of time it’s been having it on my sites. I mean, 1 visit from 15,000 impressions is not terribly good, is it? And that was one of the good ones!
So, farewell BlogRush. I’m now removing it from the 3 blogs I’ve been trying it out on. It’s really not worth all the space it takes on the blogs, given the very tiny amount of traffic it’s bringing my way.
Better luck next time.
