Blogging Resources

A list of blogging resources that will be of use for any aspiring (or veteran) blogger. My favorites are in Bold.
Hosting

WordPress – Offers a lot of functionality and customization. Would like it even more if it offered the facility to alter the HTML/CSS code for the template. Also, offers software for hosting on your own [...]

RSS Reader: JetBrains OmeaPro

How do you keep yourself updated with news especially when so many things are floating around? The simple answer to this question would be to get yourself acquainted with RSS (Really Simple Syndication). RSS basically transforms the way you approach news. Instead of you going in search of news, news will come to you and from the sources [...]

Sayonara Feed Stats

WordPress is retiring its Feed Stats page today.
As important to us to be constantly adding new features and functionality for you guys, sometimes we have to retire or prune things that just didn’t work out or that we don’t have time to focus on right now.
So today we bid farewell to our good fried Feed [...]

Desktop Blogging Editor – Windows Live Writer 2 Released

This is a long pending release from the Windows Live Writer team. The improvements are
- Inline Spell Check
- Use of tables. This is something that I was looking for and I hope that the functionality works without breaking on the web pages. The table menu looks similar to the menu in Microsoft Word. So, it [...]

Random Musings

WordPress released a widget which lets you go to a random post in your blog. If you want to go to a random post in this blog then click here.
Or Use the Widget titled ‘RANDOM POST’ on the right hand side.
Technorati Tags: Random, Musing, Widget, WordPress

Desktop Blogging Editor – Windows Live Writer

My search for a decent (and free) desktop blog writer tool has ended. I was basically looking for a tool which would allow me to post from my desktop, was able to allow a reasonable amount of formatting, support image uploading and above all, was free. (I missed the Blogjet download from Giveawayoftheday [...]

Blogging Block

I was surfing thru’ my RSS feeds when I came across this post by Darren Rowe at ProBlogger. Pretty interesting and when I was going thru’ the list I found that I typically suffer from some of the situations mentioned.
The actual text as far as point 1 is concerned is
bloggers block – one [...]

Update please

As a blogger and an avid blog reader I am aware of how painful it can be for people when they open someone’s blog and find that it hasn’t been updated. A couple of days or weeks is acceptable. But, a couple of months before any sort of update is unacceptable. It shouldn’t happen that [...]

Blog Traffic

I saw a link posted on Digg which talked about How to increase the traffic to your blog. I have actually seen quite a few links posted there which talk about the same, but by using different mechanisms. This link talks about better content. Anyway, it just got me thinking as to why this is [...]

Serious Blogging

I was browsing through the topics that were discussed at the Blogcamp last week and one topic looked very interesting. It was on how Serious Blogging can change the face of traditional Journalism. I have actually wondered about the same, and have emphatically come to the conclusion that the answer is a Big NO. The [...]