Put up a couple new pages today to get the Blogging Help section rolling. I think you’ll find it informative and easy to follow along with how to do several basic things to your blog like inserting links into your posts and putting your own video or music player on your blog. Especially useful for newbie bloggers! Even experienced bloggers may learn a thing or two!
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tags: blog help technical assistance posting editing
Technorati’s report “State of the Blogosphere” claims that they are tracking over 75,000 new blogs every single day. And, that the blogosphere is now over 60 times larger than it was only 3 years ago. That’s a helluva lot of new blogs, who’s reading all that material? A growing problem with the Technorati service is they get tons of update “pings” from blogs every hour and that up to 60% of them are of the nuisance variety, or what they like to call “spings” from blogs that are set up solely to create link farms for click fraud. Technorati currently tracks over 1.2 million posts each day which equates to 50,000 posts each hour!
I know that a number of the free blogging service providers has instituted some strict measures to control the number of spam blogs and link farms being created on their servers but is it enough? On the other hand there are quite a few outcrys from bloggers protesting about their legitimate blogs being shut down by overzealous efforts to control this sticky problem. It’s going to be interesting to see how this all pans out in the future…
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tags: technorati splog ping sping blogosphere liposuction
I’ve put up a new review and a small tutorial on using Streamload file hosting services. This service makes it easy to upload, store and share video, music and PC files for your convenience! You can use this to display your personal video files and music directly into your blog posts! And the service is absolutely FREE! How cool is that? Here’s a short take from the review:
“Almost everyone knows where to go to get their pictures and images hosted for display on their blog, but what if you’ve got a video you’ve made and want to play it in one of your posts? Let’s say you made some home movies of your last vacation, or scenes from your garage band playing it’s first gig or video scenes from your kids last birthday party stored on your PC but don’t have a clue how to show them off? Almost any halfway decent digital camera these days can shoot video scenes and can easily be uploaded to your PC. The problem is that you can’t run them on your own PC for display on the internet. That’s where Streamload comes to the rescue. Streamload is a file hosting service that allows you to upload many different types of files to their servers and from there you can direct link to them for quick and easy posting to your blog.”Read More…
Technorati tags: video, streamload, music, fileuploads, hosting,
Ahh, here we go again, more Google news, what can I say? Google, or more specifically the folks at Blogger claim that the story about the blog poster that was asked to remove the MSN brand search box from his blog was false. They claim they have no policy on what type of search engine you use on your blog and the man’s claims that he received an email asking him to remove the search box never happened. You can read it straight from the horses mouth here at Blogger Buzz.
To be fair here’s a link to the guys explanation about what “really” happened at the Tech Journal.
What do you think? Is someone lieing here or what? Something is smelling rather fishy here…
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tags: blogger, buzz, searchbox, controversy
Yeah, I know, I’ve been writing about Google a lot but those guys are always doing something cool aren’t they? I got an invite in my inbox this morning to try out a new service called Google Pages. What is it? It’s a free website hosted by Google. No, it’s not a blog, it’s a website. It has a fairly easy to use “what you see is what you get” page editor, a bunch of different page styles to choose from, each with several layout choices like 2 columns or 3 columns.
They claim that no HTML skills are needed to create a page but you can edit the HTML directly if you wish. I found that having some HTML skills was very handy for setting up links though. You can have only one site attached to your Google Gmail address but it can have multiple pages. The address to your site works out as “yourgmailname.googlepages.com”.
In about 20 minutes time I was able to create a copy of part of this page with very little trouble. You can see it here. Yes, you can upload your own images to your page with 100mb of storage available and no apparent monthly download bandwidth limit. You can very easily preview your work and then publish with one click.
I read the terms of use pretty thoroughly and there’s very little or no limitations on what type of content you can place on the site either. If you want your own Google Page go here and apply for one!
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tags: google pages, website
