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What Happens in Vegas…Gets Blogged About at Megavegalicious.com

What do you do if your a 23 year old living in Las Vegas and looking to start your new life in the United States. You blog! Forget your computer programming life in Romania and embrace the glitz and glamour of sin city. Let the world know about your adventures with a fun and interesting [...]

The War Against Blog Commenters Who Use Keywords as Names

A couple months ago, I followed an interesting discussion at Remarkablogger related to a new comment policy that Michael Martine posted for his blog. It seems that Michael had become frustrated with the increasing number of comments on his blog that appeared to be more interested in plugging their websites keywords than adding to the [...]

How’s Your Blogging Spam Filter Working?

One of the joys of blogging is screening the comments for the idiot spammers. You know…those fools that actually think people find their porn and Viagra by reading blog comments. Really, how successful is your online business if you have to resort to sticking ads on blogs by way of spamming comments? Oh well, that’s [...]

Best of the Blogs on Blogging #1

It’s time once again to dig the deepest depths of the blogosphere to bring you the best posts about blogging! But this time I’ve given the link roundup a new name. So, without further ado (whatever ado is?) here they are, the best of the best from the last week of March 2008. WordPress Releases [...]

We Have a Winner in the Blogging Startup Contest!

Well, despite all the challenges of the past week, I survived. But more importantly, I’ve gathered all the entries for the first ever Blogging Startup contest and randomly selected a winner. But first, here are the numbers from the blogging contest: 35 – Number of individuals who entered the blogging contest 223 – Number of [...]

OMG, The Computer Gods are Toying With Me

So, just in case some of you were having a tough week and feeling down, I thought I’d share something that might make you feel better.  Here’s how my week has gone: Day job website is down for nearly 100 hours!  Nothing seems to work.  Finally had to move it to BlueHost and spend two [...]