Jim Lynch: Off the Top of My Head…

Cool. I use it for all of my blogs. I’ll wait until my hosting company has it set up there before upgrading though. Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your [...]

Well this makes me feel like a blog loser. I don’t have anything like this on any of my blogs. Footers on web pages have evolved from being a simple section where you host your copyright information and additional links, to a multi-functional section where you can find a variety of site features such as [...]

I haven’t tried it yet as I too am a Transmission user. Transmission just gets my downloading done well enough that I’m not sure uTorrent would add enough value for me to switch. The Apple Blog has some good feedback after using the uTorrent beta for a while: I still prefer Transmission overall, and that’s [...]

Mashable has an interesting list of the ten best Mac blogging apps: Most bloggers today are familiar only with services designed for use with their choice of web browser. If you edit a WordPress.com account or WordPress.org installation, chances are you login and publish your material through the cloudware provided. The same goes for Blogger [...]

Continued From Page 1 5. Offers Community Flexibility One of the things that everybody is into these day is leveraging content to create community (and vice versa). Pluck adds the ability for readers to comment on your site through Pluck’s commenting system. There’s good and bad in this though. The good thing is that you [...]

I run a number of blogs these days: Jim Lynch (my writing clips repository) Off the Top of My Head (this blog) Free New Hampshire (life in the Live Free or Die state) The iPhone 3G Free Software Reviews Blog (free software for the iPhone 3G) My traffic is modest right now partly because two [...]

Great list of WordPress themes there. I browsed through and found some very nice ones. I am going to bookmark this page and come back to it when I’m ready to change the theme I’m currently using on this blog and some of my other blogs. There are many talented designers out there that choose [...]

Looks like there’s a contest going on where you can win some premium WordPress themes for free. Check it out, you might end up getting one. Today is the opportunity for Noupe readers to get WordPress Premium themes for Free! Seven Leaders in the Premium Theme Industry are offering to give away free copies of [...]

Well far be it from me – a design challenged blogger if there ever was one – to criticize other people’s blog designs but some of these are a little bit too hard to read for my tastes. Yes, it’s nice to have a pretty looking blog with fancy graphics and a high level of [...]

I’ve switched themes from the default 1.5 theme to one called Clean Breeze. I’ll be tweaking the top graphic and the background in a bit. I think this is better than the default one, even as is though. Thanks to Chris for creating the theme. Nice job. I particularly like how the quotes from articles [...]

I guess they let him go. A couple weeks ago we reported on how Google disabled an employees blog, because of his blog, ninetyninezeros, was just too revealing. So the story continued, cleaned up the blog, got some publicity and we went on with our lives. Now there are reports over at Google Blogoscoped of [...]

Works for me. I’ve been battling the spammers here for a while. I loathe them! :mad: So I’m quite happy to see Google stick it to them! Good job, Google. :mrgreen:

MSN has launched its blog service. Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a new set of Web-based services allowing users of its MSN service to publish and track each other’s blogs. The new free blogging service, called MSN Spaces, was launched as a preliminary test service along with newly updated online software for swapping instant messages and [...]

Interesting story in today’s Wall Street Journal (sorry you need a subscription to read the whole thing) about how companies have wised up to the power of bloggers. People who rave online about their favorite new gadget — or gripe about the products they hate — are turning heads in the business world. The growing [...]

Looks like Lycos is really hurting the spammer scum. :mrgreen: Earlier this week Lycos Europe released a screensaver that bombards spam websites with data to try to increase the cost of running such sites. But analysis shows that, in some cases, spam websites are being completely overwhelmed by the traffic being directed their way. The [...]

Here’s an update I got via email today about the WordPress security problem: We released an update to 1.2 with some bug and security fixes today, and I thought it would be an excellent opportunity to get in touch with six thousand of my closest friends through this announcement list. Get the details about the [...]

Heads up for those using WordPress for their blogs. :shock: Security vulnerabilities have been found in WordPress, the popular PHP-based open source blogging application. Some scripts in WordPress are not properly validated, leaving the program open to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks in which third parties could insert content into a WordPress-driven site. Hat tip to [...]

Mark Glaser seems to have totally forgotten WordPress in his article about bloggers trying to beat spam. Just what the heck is “comment spam” and how did it get so many prominent bloggers up in arms? Basically, spammers have been using blogs to help boost their standings in Google searches by posting massive numbers of [...]