Messaging systems are the core of what the internet is all about. Remember, email predates the World Wide Web itself, meaning the internet started originally as just a messaging system to get a message from Computer A to Computer B without having to physically move the message by means of storage media. Blog comments have had a tumultuous history. On the...

Good news for all of you iOS fans – the long-awaited WordPress for iOS 2.8 is out! In addition to fixes (you find them in any release), this one boasts some new, cool features (you don’t find them that often). Your iOS blogging is now one step closer to getting awesome! Let’s start with the good news first. The two new major features are Quick...

Blogging described simply is long form writing, and while writing short form (as in texting) is easy on a smartphone, long form isn’t exactly a simple matter. It’s not that the smartphone isn’t capable of blogging, but you do have to use the right tools to get the job done. Your options: WordPress for iOS Site: http://ios.wordpress.org/ The...

Everybody knows what the Wikipedia is, but the open content dictionary, Wiktionary is lesser known. Being that I write often, I need to look up words often both for definition and spelling purposes. Usually what I will do is use Google’s define: operator. For example, if you go to Google and use the search term define:computer, you’ll get a...

An article was written here on this a long time ago. This is the updated version. Windows Live Writer is arguably the best blogging app on the planet, so much so that even Mac users consider it the best over any similar app available for the OS X platform. Yes, it’s that good. One of the annoyances with WLW however is that the default template, in a word,...

Ever since I switched to OS X myself, I keep an eye out for decent blog editors for the Mac platform. Most of them suck. One that holds some promise is MarsEdit, which just recently got updated to version 3.0. Surprisingly, it took this long to put in WYSIWYG editing for blog posts, only to limit the editor to the latest OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Most Macs...

Last year, I wrote a tip regarding Penzu which is a free online journal. This differs from a blog as all entries are private by default so you can write what is on your mind without having to stuff the book under the mattress when you are done. Since my last tip, the site has added quite a fit of features including:Integration with Flickr Easily share entries...

If you currently use Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, LiveJournal, Xanga, WordPress or TypePad as a place where you post blog articles, all of them have the ability to post via a WYSIWYG editor within the service. Some of you may have discovered Windows Live Writer (which works with nearly every blog service that exists) and found it to be a very useful writing...

You’ve heard a million times that yes, there’s lots of money to be made on the internet by means of authoring a blog. Is this true? Yes. In very simplistic terms, the goal of the blog (if for profit) is to build a following, collaborate, share information and ideas, connect with others via means of social media or otherwise, get the hits rolling in...

Computer World states that blogs "have become entrenched in mainstream life". This is due to a report that bloggers are writing a staggering 37,000 posts per hour. I remember not-so long ago that it was decreed (by many) blogging was dead as a doorknob. Well, whoever said that was dead wrong. "Entrenched" is not a word I would use to describe...

If there is any be-all/end-all blog writing utility out there that classifies as the best, it’s Windows Live Writer. For all the bungling that Microsoft does with its other products, WLW is one that actually shines and does so very well. Why is this? Because it does what any good blog authoring tool should do – author to just about anywhere....

On Day 6, I talked about using social media as the spokes of a wheel and at the center of that wheel is your blog.The fact that I made a blog the hub of the wheel should tell you that, yes, the blog is important. Even if your business centers around an online ecommerce store, you should still have a blog. Why? As I also said in Day 6, anonymity and impersonal...