My wife and I recently upgraded our phones and I now have a Blackberry… I’ve been getting it set up slowly, but surely. The latest app I installed is from WordPress and enables me to post and edit posts and pages as well as review and approve comments. So, while I am able to become [...]

Since posting about using Akismet and the need to check your spam queue, I’ve found that all comments in response have been found in my Akismet spam queue. I think it’s quite indicative of the types of sites the visitors linked to in their comments and the keywords used in the names they provided. What [...]

There appears to be more backlash from the Feedburner to Google migration. I just received the following email from CommentLuv:
Important!

Google has recently taken over FeedBurner which means
your feed URL has changed. CommentLuv stores your
feed URL from the first time it sees your site so if
you are using Feedburner be sure to log in to
CommentLuv, go [...]

Starting on January 12, 2009, another blog I run came under severe spam attack and it has been increasing since. Until that point it had received maybe a couple dozen spam comments, at the most. On January 12, 2009, it jumped up to 217, then to 361 on the 13th, and 409 already today!
Thanks to [...]

I’ve been in this game for a while, but I’m relatively new to blogging. I understand that a lot of people get into this industry because they think they can make a quick buck. I have no illusions. I am sure that this blog will be my least profitable web site. But that doesn’t mean [...]

Now that drivelocity has been up for a couple months now, I’ve had a chance to learn more about WordPress plugins, beyond the standard ones I’d used in the past. I now have ten plugins that I feel are must-haves, so I’ve expanded my Five Favorite WordPress Plugins list to include the new ones, several [...]

After spending some time surfing some marketing and SEO related blogs, I decided to give the Top Commentators plugin a try. It allows you to add a widget to your sidebar that will display the visitors who post the most comments in a certain period of time. You can exclude specific people, like I did [...]

I guess it was bound to happen. People using technology to propose marriage is nothing new. This person used Freelance Switch to propose. This couple have already gotten married after a Twitter proposal. Recently another guy proposed on Twitter and has a new fiance.
Here is the proposal to and acceptance by Max Kiesler and Emily [...]

I’ve seen a fair number of blogs using CommentLuv, so I decided to check it out…
What is CommentLuv?
CommentLuv is a WordPress plugin that helps give incentive to visitors to post comments on your blog. Rather than simply giving them only one URL to their site, CommentLuv adds another option when someone posts a comment. You [...]

Sacramento bloggers are most likely familiar with the blog aggregators IpsoSacto.com and RiverWrap.com… When I started drivelocity, I waited a seemingly decent amount of time before submitting it to those two sites. I didn’t want to be turned down because the site was too new, or didn’t have enough content. It was accepted by IpsoSacto [...]