Archive for the 'meta' Category

A Funnel of Ideas

Published June 15th, 2007 in meta. 0 Comments

Numerous blog advice articles and posts recommend establishing a blog with a very narrow focus or niche. If you’ve read some of my posts you already have noticed that I can write about a variety of different topics. Quite frankly, what I’ve written is still much more narrow in scope than the number of topics […]

Popularity: 31% [?]

Some blog spring cleaning

Published June 9th, 2007 in meta. 0 Comments

For the first couple of months, I had been treating categories as tags. In general, a post should fall under one category but may be assigned multiple tags. I did classify those early posts into multiple categories. I’m going through now to reclassify those respective posts into single categories. Since it is early enough in […]

Popularity: 27% [?]

Quick Akismet Update

Published May 25th, 2007 in meta. 0 Comments

I recently installed the Akismet blog comment spam filter. As of today, Akismet has already filtered out 57 spam comments. The blog does have 1 comment thus far, although that doesn’t really count since it’s simply a trackback. That’s not unexpected, though, since publicizing the blog has yet to commence. Thanks to effective spam filtering […]

Popularity: 33% [?]

Akismet filters spam comments

Published March 17th, 2007 in meta. 0 Comments

Although I have yet to begin publicizing this blog, a couple of spam comments have already popped up. Thankfully, WordPress (the engine which powers my blog) held these comments in moderation. In future posts I’ll get into why I chose a self-hosted WordPress solution.
If spam comments are already rearing their ugly head, I chose to […]

Popularity: 37% [?]

Bloggers Unite