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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Has Technorati ditched the most favourited list?

There’s something stirring over at Technorati HQ. Following the much debated reciprocal favouriting discussion, it seems the guys at Technorati have removed the list entirely!

Actually, I’ve been keeping a keen eye on the list this morning and sometimes it’s there, sometimes it’s not. It may just be a glitch.

However, over at engtech there is an [...]

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The Technorati top 100 superficial list

Recently I’ve stood from the sidelines and watched with a little disappointment as hordes of bloggers have exchanged Technorati favourites in an attempt to game the system and break the Technorati Top 100 Most Favourited Blogs List.

The trend seems to have started over at doshdosh.com with a reciprocal favouriting scheme that works kind of like [...]

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Lets all join the DoFollow revolution

Over the past few months I’ve witnessed a quiet movement gain momentum and transform into a full-blown revolution. I talk of course, of the DoFollow movement.

By default, WordPress adds the “rel=nofollow” command to all links in comments. In fact, most blogging software does the same thing and the intentions are good - to prevent those [...]

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To Digg or not to Digg? You decide

It is a beast of a site that has risen from nothing over the last couple of years. In 2006, Digg established itself as one of the primary drivers of Internet traffic.

The concept of delivering democratically elected news articles sounds great in an idealistic kind of way. The reality however, is slightly different. As a [...]

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You, your blog and your goals

A few days ago, David Airey’s Creative Design blog passed the 1,000 comments mark. A small yet impressive milestone for a relatively young blog. (I was the 1,000th commenter - I’ll claim that free pint one day, David)

David’s achievement, along with Scot Smith of Meridiancrest’s success at smashing his own goals he set for March, [...]

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The things in life worth shouting about

I’m a fairly quiet, unassuming, easy to get along with and easy going kind of chap. Yet, there are some things in life that make me want to shout at the top of my voice, “LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME!”

It happened in 1995 when I won the 100M sprint at the school sports day, [...]

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