I am constantly finding reasons why I am not a proponent of hosting blogging plans. I am a Wordpress supporter yet I don’t recommend hosting your blog on Wordpress.com, and in spite of the Google mantra of doing no evil, I tell many to run away from Google’s application Blogger. In a rec...

Typepad is a paid, hosted platform and is one of the most popular options in the blogosphere right now. One of the questions I am asked most often is whether Typepad is worth paying for. Even though the service is reasonably priced, many bloggers aren’t sure they want to pay for their hobby, b...

When you decide to start your own blog, there are many choices to be made. The very first choice is which platform to use. The most popular blog platforms are Blogger, Typepad, and WordPress. This article will explain the basic differences of these platforms and the pros and cons of each. When choos...

At Compendium Blogware, our passion and drive is to ensure that companies are leveraging their content to its fullest potential to increase overall business results. We have a very different approach than the typical blogging consultancy: We have a Software as a Service platform that is years ahead ...

It may not have been the largest free blogging platform available, but for anyone who used JournalSpace for their blog the events of the last week were catastrophically significant. Three days ago, JournalSpace lost all of its data. Yes, all of it. The hardware itself was intact, which means that ei...

I have been meaning to write this post for some time and continue to get sidetracked and have my ADD kick in which keeps me from writing (oh look something shiny). It wasn’t until Guy Kawasaki recently wrote a post on Twitter as a business tool or as he refers to it a Twool, that i decided I h...

I’m going to share a story with all of you first. Yes, it’s true, although I hate to admit it. A few years ago I decided that I needed a website.  Not just a template website, but a website that was custom to me.  Branded.  One that I could call my own.  So, I contacted a company tha...

[fr] Une amie Serbe s'est vu poser un ultimatum par son hébergeur de blogs: 24 heures pour supprimer commentaires d'un autre blogueur et liens vers ses sites, ou voir son blog disparaître. L'hébergeur en question (qui utilise WordPress multi-utilisateurs, comme WordPress.com) avait en outre désa...

  When I logged into my WordPress Administration area for AjaxNinja today I saw an interesting entry on Matt Mullenweg’s (original WordPress founder) blog. His entry was called "Graffiti Disses WordPress," and it linked to an entry on Charles Stricklin’s blog, which contai...