Alister Cameron // Blogologist

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Find me on Alltop

6 May 2008 – 2:22 pm

Neenz and the great team at Alltop have added Yours Truly to the Alltop blogging category. Just in time for my determined return to a more aggressive and consistent blogging schedule. I have more planned than I can begin to tell you right now, but all I can say is, you’re going to want to [...]

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Call for Alpha testers for the next-generation Wordpress theme

20 February 2008 – 5:33 pm

I’ve been talking for months now about the integration of the wonderful Sandbox and the Yahoo User Interface CSS library. Well, I’ve done it.

It’s codenamed Vanilla and it’s in “closed Alpha” just for now.
But with all things new, I need some people to step up to the mark and help me test it, refine it [...]

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I WILL mark your comments as SPAM!

13 February 2008 – 11:26 am

Warning… if you leave me a mostly meaningless comment with a keyword in the name field, I will hit the SPAM button and Akismet with cause you pain across the entire Wordpress install-base. You have been warned. Moreso, if your comment is added to one of my older blog posts with good pagerank, I will [...]

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The Blogologist speaking at Wordcamp Melbourne 2007

23 November 2007 – 3:56 pm

This is Yours Truly speaking at Wordcamp Melbourne 2007. Many thanks to the team at EightBlack for the recording and putting it online. Simon Chen, CEO, says some extraordinarily generous things about me on that page…!
My session focussed on “evangelising” the Sandbox Theme, which is a special favourite of mine, as an obsessed web designer. [...]

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Did I uncover your credit card details on the web today!?

29 September 2007 – 5:47 pm

Today I accidentally uncovered a huge list of people’s names, addresses and credit card details online. No kidding.

I found more than that: login details to people’s web hosting accounts and e-commerce site memberships as well. It was really freaky to think it was all just staring at me, thanks to a flukey Google search. Nothing [...]

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Identity theft on Facebook

20 September 2007 – 12:53 pm

Dare Obasanjo reviews a Sophos press release that reveals what we always knew: social networks like Facebook make identity theft way way too easy.
Technorati Tags: fraud, identity theft, facebook, social networks, social networking, identity fraud, dare obasanjo, alister cameron

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BlogRush: the Amway of the Blogosphere

19 September 2007 – 12:20 pm

John Reese is the consummate scientific marketer. He’s brilliant.
He, of all people, understands the power of good numbers. In his time he’s made millions off very smart online marketing and self-promotion. He has seen first hand that creative and effective marketing to a huge list of qualified leads can yield massive returns.
Now, with BlogRush, John [...]

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The Wordpress dashboard… another secret source of blog traffic

18 September 2007 – 5:04 pm

Here’s a cool “secret source” of blog traffic I discovered some time back…
A couple of months ago, I wrote a post and thought it might have been of interest to the readership of Weblog Tools Collection (a very high-traffic site for Wordpress coders and plugin junkies). So I emailed Mark Ghosh about it, and he [...]

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Jeremy Wright gives us a closer look at B5 Media

3 August 2007 – 10:48 am

Jeremy Wright answers John Yau’s questions and gives us a nice behind-the-scenes look at the B5 Media blog network.
Technorati Tags: b5 media, b5, jeremy wright, darren rowse, problogger, alister cameron

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Is it possible to keep your focus but still ‘mix it up’ on your blog?

18 July 2007 – 12:00 am

A few days ago I implemented asides on my blog. These are sometimes called “tumblelog” posts and give me a way to write short pithy posts about this or that. For me it was really important to give these posts a different look on my blog (at least on index pages), so that you the [...]

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