Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Blog Action Day 2008—What will you do to fight poverty?

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Blog Action Day 2008 is October 15. This year’s topic is poverty.
Last year, thousands of bloggers participated by writing about the environment, posting our articles en masse on October 15, 2007.
This year the format is the same in that all participating bloggers upload their posts on the topic of poverty simultaneously on October 15.
There is [...]

Unintended Outcomes (of Social Networking)

Friday, August 1st, 2008

This week, blogging maven Darren Rowse threw a Love-In of sorts, intended to inspire us to get acquainted with hundreds, even thousands, of new Twitters, Plurkers, Stumblers, etc. If you need some new social contacts, you can plow through this list of Twitterers, these Diggers and Stumblers, and, to top it off, a smaller group [...]

How to Convert a Static Web Site to a WordPress blog site

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

This is an undertaking that involves a huge leap of faith!
Note from ktcosmos: This article was originally developed at the request of a colleague, who was tackling a conversion project herself. She published it on her new blog but then contacted me recently to say she had grown frustrated and stressed out over the conversion [...]

Page Rank DOES Migrate after awhile!

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

About six weeks ago I converted an existing site to a WordPress, blog-style site.
I’ve written about the process elsewhere (Converting from Static Site to WordPress Blog? , and also check out my guest post about the conversion published at Merrick Management), and all that was left to have happen is for the original site’s [...]

Oops; here we go again (another WordPress update)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Another update. Another (temporary) crash.
I don’t know my way around version 2.6 yet as I just installed it. In fact, I was just getting used to 2.51 and then saw it was time to update again.
I used the WordPress Automatic Update plugin and crashed my site. Then, did it manually (fortunately my database was backed [...]

Google Status Restored! The WordPress Hack Aftermath

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

After help from numerous resources online (scroll to the bottom of Busted by Google to see some of the sites that helped me track down my hacked files), and combing through jillions (it feels like) files, I find this morning that my google search engine results are restored to normal. That was REALLY fast.
Though [...]