Category Archives: blogging

10 bloging hacks

Micro Persuation has one of the most interesting articles with ten handy hacks/resources a blogger should know of. Must read.

Google Blog Search

Google Blog Search is Google’s “blog search engine”. The nice thing is you can have results as RSS or ATOM feeds. You can also sort results by relevance or date. Nice.

MIT Weblog Survey

The “Personal Mall” Concept

Yesterday I set up Things I Bought, which is what I call a “personal mall”. A personal mall is a personal website presenting items the owner (or blogger) actually bought and used. Those things may be diverse in a way: … read more →

Interesting reading on folksonomy

David L. Sifry mentioned this very interesting article at the Technorati Developers mailin list. Worth reading!

My Yahoo! + unicode

I just noticed that My Yahoo! works fine with unicode feeds (it did not some time ago). That’s good news for all of us blogging in languages other than english!

Feedburner tracking and Technorati

Here is my problem. I set up monitor.vrypan.net using lilina. It is actually an aggregation of many Greek blogs. What I want to do is to provide a “common place” for greek blogs to interact with each other. So this … read more →

Migrating from Drupal to WordPress

I finally decided to move my greek blog from drupal to wordpress. Since there was no migration script, I wrote a couple of sql statements that moved all posts, comments and categories from my drupal tables to the (new) wordpress … read more →

easyMusic.com: What are you up to Stelios?

I just found this: easyMusic.com. It’s not ground breaking. There are other sites that do exacly the same. However, this looks like the right time (with podcasting popularity rising and the demand for “podsafe” music rising too). And Stelios has … read more →

Blogs, the incremental web and search engines

I recently read The Incremental Web [topix.net]. Then rummors [InsideGoogle] about Yahoo! developing a blog search engine… OK, is it just me or is there a pattern?