Slashdot is chatting about how writers are finding the pressures of (pro) blogging to be too great. The New York times talks about how bloggers are under constant pressure to release a stream of content, all the time. Michael Arrington, the famous TechCrunch blogger, is quoted saying ” ‘I haven’t died yet,’ said Michael Arrington, [...]

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Every time I upgrade my Firefox 3 beta all my plugins stop working, and I’m almost always certain that there is no real reason aside from the version shift – there are no relevant changes etc. The most critical of these is my new favourite blogging tool, Zemanta. As I’m sure you’ve noticed there have [...]

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Zemanta is (currently) a Firefox plugin which throws your blogging into overdrive – it automatically suggests and inserts images, links, related links and tags into your blog posts in (currently) WordPress (even 2.5), Blogger and TypePad. Oh, and we love it. Functionality Zemanta works exactly how you’d want it – without any changes to your [...]

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We’re officially rolling WordPress 2.5 now folks; so far the only down side is that my Zemanta has stopped displaying (it obviously doesn’t roll 2.5) and I’ve just discovered the rich text editors link popup is broken :( . See more on the release at these blogs – Dougal Photomatt westi on WP WordPress Blog [...]

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If you are at all interested in having a popular or successful blog you’ll need statistics; and even if you aren’t its great to know who your users are and what they enjoy and dislike. Below is a review of various WordPress statistics plugins, with their pros and cons. Before you start, some things you [...]

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  If your a blogger or an aspiring blogger I’m sure you’re interested in making either the big bucks with your blog or simply a little something extra on the side. If so, then this is the guide for you. In this guide, I will explain various different ways of getting passive income through your [...]

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Good news all ! You can stop the mails complaining – I’ve put the two themes I made for WordPress back up on the site; you can download/see them here.

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Lifehacker has a great greasemonkey script to add filtering support to your Google Feed Reader, with full regex support (if you go that way). “automatically highlights any items in Google Reader whose contents match any word in your matchlist. The script’s filtering does not remove posts from Reader, so you won’t miss any content—you’ll just [...]

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Whats the best way to read and to distribute your RSS? Lifehacker currently has an article for reader discussion and has linked to a site which has 14 Other Ways to Use RSS Feeds. Undeniably RSS is one of the best things that has happened to the web after email. Not only has it made [...]

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UPDATE!! Contempt is hosted here on Entropy again! Get it now. If you’re looking for Contempt (the WordPress theme), its no longer hosted here but at Blogah!

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