It is polite, or at least a thoughtful gesture, to ask the permission of those concerned before publishing the content of private conversations on your blog. I go to a lot of events and I have a lot of conversations and people tell me lots of things that would get them into trouble if I published it. Yet they trust me and trust that I won't burn them but ... Read full entry

In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop Concerns have been raised about the health risks associated with... blogging, following the recent sudden deaths of two prominent bloggers in the US. The pressure to be constantly ahead of the game, while writing for an information hungry global audience that never sleeps, can take its toll according to Michael Arrington of TechCrunch. "I haven't died yet," said Michael Arrington, ... Read full entry

Melbourne web developer Josh Sharp has recently launched techAU. techAU aggregates both prominent and up-and-coming Australian bloggers who write about the new generation of the web and related technologies. Comes with a crisp, easy on the eye, interface. Now the challenge is to compose descriptive and eye catching post titles...

Wordpress 2.5 Sneak Peek Forget Moveable Type, the latest release of WordPress, WP 2.5, will feature the design genius of the Happy Cog Studios crew. For the past few months, we've been working with our friends at Happy Cog - Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and Liz Danzico - to redesign WordPress from the ground-up. The result is a new way of interacting with WordPress that ... Read full entry

Blog Fight! WordPress and Movable Type Square Off Missed this somehow. A molehill that became a mountain somehow. Not the intention, just the way it turned out I guess. It's the bloggers equivalent of the Mac vs. Windows flamewar - WordPress vs. Movable Type. The controversy kicked off earlier this week when Six Apart's (Movable Type's parent company) Anil Dash posted a note suggesting that WordPress users consider ... Read full entry

Do You Call Yourself a Blogger? Do you? Much to my "shame", no, not really. I've lost count of the conversations that I've had with friends who tell me that they've never read a blog before - but whom when I question them about the sites that they read find that they read blogs everyday week without knowing it. As bloggers and web savvy people we are often very tuned ... Read full entry

The Life Cycle of a Blog Post Clicking the post button after writing a blog post is just the beginning of a blog post's life cycle, and not the relished end as some writers may prefer to think it. Within minutes, if you've written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketers. A fantastic ... Read full entry

The Flash maestro himself Joshua Davis has switched to Wordpress. But he hasn't moved from the likes of Blogger, or Movable Type, he's moved from Flash. I had to view source just to make sure. Via resist.

When it was established that I was the only "blogger" at the table the other evening, the assumptions I was a walking font of knowledge on all matters bloggy were not far behind. Mind you some of the questions were interesting, including "do you think blogging will bring about the demise of newspapers?" Now there's something that a lot of people have been talking about for a while, and there's certainly little ... Read full entry

A brand new discussion forum for Australian bloggers goes into soft launch (I hope, this is the timestamp speaking again...) today: Aussie Bloggers Forum. Of course it's not just for Australians, and everyone where ever you are, is welcome. So whether blogging is your major or your minor head along and say hello, network, and strut your stuff. How's that for an easy, not too demanding, way to spend New Year's Day?