Taking a blogging breather…

I just wanted to make an overdue appearance on miLienzo.com to say “Hi” to everyone and apologise for the lack of blog activity this past week.

I’m going to avoid all the usual excuses - the truth of the matter is I wanted some evenings to relax, watch TV and generally forget about emails, RSS feeds, [...]

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How can I improve my blog?

I’ve been wanting to ask you, my readers, for some honest feedback for a while now. I decided to wait until today as it’s the site’s six-month birthday, and I figured you might go easy on me…

Actually I don’t want you to go easy on me - I want you to be honest and let [...]

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How do you evaluate your blogs’ progress?

Tomorrow miLienzo.com reaches the grand old age of six months. This week will be one of reflection and realisation for me, and with your help I will make decisions for the future direction of this site.

Three months ago I set myself a series of blogging goals and targets for this six month birthday. So how [...]

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DoFollow: is it really worth it?

This weekend I have been the victim of a wave of comment spam. In the space of 50 minutes one individual left a bout of comments. All were relevant to the topic of the posts although identifiable as spam as none of the comments were particularly deep or engaging - ie, one or two sentence [...]

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Don’t you love the British weather?

If you live in the UK you’re probably a bit fed up with the weather this summer. Fortunately I’m not one of those poor souls who are living in 4 foot of river filth with no electricity or clean running water. However, I’m not completely unaffected.

My phone line and subsequent Internet connection are a gonna. [...]

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Categorising your blog

Since I began writing this blog, I have never really used categories to define what I write. Instead, I prefer to use tags to more loosely associate a number of definitions to everything I write.

However, it struck me that my huge tag cloud at the bottom of every page is not necessarily the most user [...]

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Now you can subscribe to miLienzo.com via email

If you don’t know what RSS is or what a feed reader is, I suggest you find out because the Internet has changed since 1997. However, if all this talk of XML, aggregation and syndication still gives you the jitters, and all you want to do is subscribe to miLienzo.com, now you can do it [...]

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Why I’m currently seeing red

Right now, this very instance, I’m fuming! It’s probably a bad idea to come anywhere near my blog in this state of mind, but as it’s been six days since my last post I’ve decided to try out the therapeutic properties of good old fashioned ranting.

Regular readers will be aware that I’ve been very busy [...]

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Not enough hours in the day for blogging

If you’re wondering if I’ve disappeared off the face of the planet… I haven’t. My end of year exhibition begins on Wednesday 6 June, so for the past week I’ve done little else other than finishing unfinished projects and preparing for the exhibition.

miLienzo.com has gone four days without a post, my Google Reader has got [...]

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Share your strangest blogging moment

I love MyBlogLog. It’s a great tool for pulling in visitors to my site and building a community, and also for finding other blogs and bloggers with similar interests to me.

But my favourite feature is being able to see your faces. I always build mental pictures of people I come across online, so it’s fascinating [...]

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