Posts under ‘Blogging’

Every time I set up a new wordpress.com blog I make the same changes before I even start thinking about writing a post.  The following is really just a crib sheet for myself, but someone may find it useful.
A couple of notes first:

There’s no single ‘right way’ to set up a blog.  If you do [...]

A couple of interesting things have been flung my way in recent days.  First up there was the invitation to the mobile phone-sponsored secret gig that I went to (and indeed blogged about) a couple of weeks back.  Now I’ve been invited to the Tory Party Conference and the filming of an advert for the [...]

It’s a bit navel-gazing but, in answer to a request, here’s the list of plugins used on my blog.  Or at least hoarded just in case I need them one day.

AdSense Manager
Akismet
All in One SEO Pack
Audio Player
cformsII - contact form
FeedSmith
flickrRSS
Google Analytics
Google XML Sitemaps
InlineFeed
My Page Order
One Click Plugin Updater
Postalicious
Seesmic Wordpress plugin
Sociable
Twitter Tools
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
Wordpress Database Backup
Wordpress [...]

Not many people, percentagely-speaking, comment on blogs.  A bit of Jakob Nielsen research showed that:
In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.
I write a lot of blog posts every week and it’s nice when someone [...]