Alister Cameron // Blogologist

Changing the world. One blog(ger) at a time.

Tag: Blogging

Ray Ozzie, I am disappointed.

29 February 2008 – 6:24 pm

This is Ray Ozzie. He’s Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect. I pictured him kind of younger than that… but Microsoft ages you like nothing else. I mean, just look at Steve Ballmer!
Anyway, see that link on Ray’s page… top right in the sidebar… yeah, that links to his blog. Click it.
You’ve arrived at a page dated [...]

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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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Life’s toughest questions get answered

10 October 2007 – 11:30 am

My church is blogging. And it’s a smart approach: combining a dedicated blog with a specific teaching series on Life’s Toughest Questions. If it works a treat I might do a case study on it some time.
Technorati Tags: crossway, blogging, church blogs, christianity, faith blogs, questions

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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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An easier way to dialogue with your blog commenters

18 July 2007 – 2:23 pm

I admit it. I suck at dialoguing with my commenters properly. It’s been an interface issue, mostly. But that seems to have been solved. I noticed Liz talking about a Wordpress plugin called Better Comments Manager, and I’ve installed it… and it’s working a treat. So expect more dialogue from me in the comments. (This [...]

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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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I’m in with Sphinn!

17 July 2007 – 11:51 am

Sphinn is live and humming and attracting all the right people from the SEO/SEM/SMO/SMM worlds. I signed up today, but already had a story of mine with almost the most “sphinns”! And don’t forget to add Sphinn to your Share This Wordpress plugin. It’s easy.
Technorati Tags: digg, sphinn, danny sullivan, seo, [...]

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Linking to Wikipedia is lazy and a disservice to someone else who really deserves the link!

13 July 2007 – 11:40 am

Imagine you’re Google for a moment (I accept that’s not an easy challenge!). Your job is to do the “right” job and fairly and wisely and correctly rank web pages from all across the internet on any given search term. What a job!
So you refine, refine, refine and refine some more a funky-as “algorithm” that [...]

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