Author Archive for Ia Lucero

Jun | 08 | 2007

Are Your Blog Visitors Too Lazy To Comment? Try ClickComments

Posted by Sophia as Blogging Tools, Community Building Blogs are nothing without the communities surrounding them. Listing your blog in directories and other social sites, as well as linking and trackbacking to get noticed may be good and all, but without reader feedback in the form of comments, you're essentially talking to the wind. The good news is, it's not always your fault. A lot of people find the process of commenting cumbersome: having to register, leave sensitive information (such as one's email address), and come up with an original comment.

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Jun | 07 | 2007

MovableType 4 Beta Released and Goes Open Source!

Posted by Sophia as Blogging News, Blogging Tools, Software Features

SixApart has just announced the release of MovableType 4 Beta. Many have known MT as the definitive blogging software that has forever changed the way people blog. Beyond WordPress Those who are well-versed with the history of blogging will know that the boom did not start with WordPress. The first wave came with MovableType. Few blog software were as easy to customize, and this attracted a large following.

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Jun | 03 | 2007

reCAPTCHA: More than the Usual Anti-Spam Measure

Posted by Sophia as Blogging Tools, Spam It started with junk mail in real life, creeped into our virtual mailboxes, and has now invaded our blogs as comments and trackbacks. Blog spam is usually characterized by generic advertisements for silly stuff including but not limited to porn, warez, lotteries, pills, insurance, and real estate---often with a suspicious-looking URL. You start getting spammed when spambots find your blog. Unfortunately, that's the price you have to pay for being "popular." The good news is, many developers have thought of ways to combat comment spam. Perhaps the most famous right now is Akismet, which has the following Spam ...

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Jun | 01 | 2007

Make Your Blog Posts Readable

Posted by Sophia as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing Blog posts are different from paper-based readables in that they're relatively uncomfortable to read (especially the longer ones). Not every one of your visitors is likely to sit through everything you have to say. Statistically, people only skim the length of the page in order to decide whether the piece is useful to them or not. Also make sure they're still easy to read if your visitors have enough patience to take in every single word (so they won't have a headache after). The key idea here is to divide your paragraphs and sentences into easily digestible chunks. Second, HTML is your friend: I'll be mentioning several tags you can put to good use. Off we go:

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May | 25 | 2007

Learn How To Link (and Trackback)

Posted by Sophia as Blog Tutorial, Linking, Tips, Writing Whether you call it the Internet, the Net, the World Wide Web, the Web, CyberSpace, or even the Intarwebs, one thing is clear: this place is composed of several different websites connected through hyperlinks. Without links, we won't be able to move from one website to another. Since blogging is a subset of the online world, it is important to realize the value of linking.

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May | 23 | 2007

Act Your Age on Your Blog!

Posted by Sophia as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing Your blog should reflect your age. By blog I mean your whole blog: your posts, your comments (read: possible arguments with other people), your blog's design, and the general objectives of your blog. That's the summary of this whole post. Of course, there will be follow-up questions to that. Like "what does acting my age mean, writing-wise?" or "what should I not be saying if my age is so and so?" So let's be a little more specific.

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