Basil’s Blog

I’ll be following up later with a post about the cat-fight going on between the cable company that services my area and the local ABC affiliate.
But, in my inquiries of trying to obtain more information about it, the GM of the local channel (WTVM) committed a horrible error in judgement in the way he responded.
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Last time, we talked about setting up FeedBurner with your Blogger (Blogspot) blog.
We covered creating your FeedBurner account, adding you blog’s feed to FeedBurner, then putting a link to your FeedBurner feed in your sidebar.
Now, we’re going to look at extending the FeedBurner functionality for your Blogger blog.
Express Yourself With Flare
Sorta like Chotchkie’s wants you [...]

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Most blogging platforms … Blogger (BlogSpot) included … include feeds. Blogger has had Atom feeds for some time. The new version of Blogger also includes RSS feeds.
But that’s not the only way to provide feeds.
The popular service FeedBurner also works with Blogger. Both the new version (the one with widgets) and the older version.
First Things [...]

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One of the cool things about WordPress … and some other blogging systems … is the ability to easily customize your site layout with Widgets.
Blogger (the new version), TypePad, and WordPress all have the ability to customize your sidebar content by using Widgets.
Today, we’re going to talk about WordPress Widgets. We’ll talk about TypePad and [...]

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Missed writing Headlines last night. I couldn’t blog.
Oh, I could access the blog. But I couldn’t edit any posts.
You see, when I do Headlines, I’ll have one window open to the blog and another open to news sites.
After I find a Headline that lends itself to something silly, I’ll enter it in the post in [...]

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Our blog tips have been covering setting up a blog, including looking at several platforms.
But there’s one thing that we need to cover before we cover other blogging tips.
This tip is for bloggers. And for people who just read blogs. And for folks that use the Internet.
Have a firewall on your computer.
Operating system considerations
Most folks [...]

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Continuing our look at blogging platforms, we’re looking at paid services. And today, we’re looking at WordPress.com.
Yes, we looked at WordPress.com a little while back … when we were looking at free platforms. But there’s a paid version of WordPress.com. Sort of.
WordPress.com is not WordPress
We convered this before, but we need to cover it again, [...]

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We’ve looked at free blogging services and platforms such as Blogger, WordPress.com, and Blogsome for launching a blog. Actually, we also looked at LiveJournal, MSN Spaces, MySpace, and AOL. I didn’t care much for those four. But the other three, I like.
Now, it should be stated that I run active blogs on Blogger and [...]

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We’ve looked at Blogger, WordPress.com, and Blogsome as possible free platforms for starting up a blog. All three have their good points and bad points.
But those aren’t the only free services there are. But they are the only ones I like.
But that doesn’t mean they are the only good ones. And I’d like to hear [...]

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We’re looking at free blogging platforms. Last time, we looked at WordPress.com. Today we’re looking at Blogsome.
Like WordPress.com, Blogsome is a free, WordPress MU site. That is, it runs the multi-user version of WordPress, called WordPress MU. But there’s a critical difference. Or two. Or so.
Versions
First, Blogsome is using WordPress 1.5.1a … an older version [...]

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