Categories
I’ve tagged the document with the tags “Blogging” and “Google Docs”.

Pics
Here I’ve put in a picture in order to test if that works (I could probably read this somewhere but I’m lazy)

General usage
Pros
-The editor has a bigger window, this makes it more comfortable especially with long posts
- A nice intuitive editor. I find it much better than the one in Wordpress
- Spell check (also possible in Wordpress admin)
- Integrated in Google Dics which I use for many other things.
- Fast editor (I use it any way for drafts)

Cons
- No access to the more advanced features in Wordpress like tags and time.

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- I’ve had to ad title and categories manually

Some time ago Tech Tag received two very critical comments on two posts about Scheduleworld (post 1, post2). Then a few weeks later the pattern repeated it self. Two identical comments where posted on the same two post, but from a different IP.

Comment 1
Claims to be from a someone whose Scheduleworld account has been compromised, and that his comments asking about it in the Scheduleworld support forum has been deleted.

Comment 2
Claims that critical questions in the Scheduleworld forum has been deleted, and has led to the account being deleted.

To get an idea of what is going on I wrote a a mail to Scheduleworlds support, and confronted them with the the allegations from the comment section. Within 30 minutes I received an email answering all my questions.
The answer from Scheduleworld.
I got the answer from Scheduleworld that messages had been deleted from the forum.

“I have only deleted comments from one person – the same user that posted these comments to your site (I believe they are the same person).”
The email stated.
On the other hand Scheduleworld denies deleting any accounts.

“I have never deleted an account unless the person asks me to. I haven’t even deleted the accounts this poster used to fabricate complaints with.Scheduleworld finds it a very theoretical that someone should have compromised accounts.

There are a number of things that could explain this complaint besides the poster being a competitor. I don’t believe it, but perhaps the poster actually is a victim and someone else sniffed his HTTP traffic. Perhaps someone else retrieved his information by tapping his keyboard, or a virus snooped his keystrokes or network traffic.”

No answer from the other side
I then sent an email to the addresses used for the different comments. One of them bounced, and I’ve received no answer to the other message. Adding to that both email addresses used for commenting, where supplied by spam services which offer free use-and-dispose email addresses.

The comments are mutually excluding, meaning that that if they are true it must be two different persons, and they are from different IP addresses. But they share some similarities. They are are almost identical two and two, made at the same time and made in the same tone.

Comments based on a lie?
Based on the lacking answer and the extra means taken to stay anonymous. I see no other conclusion, than to conclude that these comments were most likely based on a lies. But if someone think something else, please let me know.
Whether this is a lie or not, the fact that there is an insecurity about commets is a problem to the whole blogosphere. It reduces the value of actual comments and risks making the blogossphere seem amateurish to outsiders.

I’m trying out this theme, “Problogger clean“, because of its focus on the text and for all the great features.

The advantage for the reader is that even though it is an ad heavy theme, the ads can be switched completely off.

My logic was that either this hype would not start, and I would have a permanent link on the main page. Or the hype would take of and sub-page with all the old links would get loads of traffic. So fare my logic has failed completely, I’m off the main page and is getting no traffic at all from the sub-page.

I am Karin, very interesting article that contained the information I was searching for in Google, thanks….

I thought at first, that it must be a mistake, of course the message is a bit generic, but still it is hard to dismiss such a nice compliment. In order to check what it was I went to the website (which I won’t link to here). The website turned out to be Karins blog about wind? I felt sad for Karin, something had gone wrong when she added adsense she had made loads of space below it so that I had to scroll some before passing the ads. At this point I was thinking that someone ought to help her.

But then it happened, I read the first lines of her post saying:

The wind barb is always point in the wind” written and performed by bob dylan; “dont think twice, . .You are now viewing bbc weathers five day forecast for memphis, united states of .

And then I just gave up, and admitted that the spamfilter is smarter than me.

When installing Wordpress via my hosting provider (Dreamhost), they install a lot of themes to. When trying out these, I found the tracking code. Adding the code make it possible to monitor a site’s traffic in detail. For example who visits, for how long and who referred them. For my website these information is not that sensitive, but I still like to be in control.
Don’t get me wrong I respect the people who provide themes for the rest of us deeply, and I would find it okay if it was a condition for using the theme, which I was informed on beforehand. I just find that it a bit too much if this code is put in there on purpose without informing the user.

I’m still pretty new to blogging, and I’m just wondering if this is a common accepted way to go? And what is when it comes to themes, I have not found any information of licenses in the themes I have downloaded? Is it okay to modify and put in ads?

The first worry was what content to put in the blog, and what to call it. As I am shy I decided to base the content on my experience with making things work, since that is what interests me, that be anything from a broken down toaster to a weblog.

After looking in to the free offers from Blogger and Wordpress, I decided that I wanted to do this right and own the domain myself instead of settling with a subdomain. The domain was registered at Godaddy and a hosting account was acquired from Dreamhost (not completely rational I know, if I had thought it trough from the start I had bought it all from one provider).

With Dreamhosts on-click-install I had Wordpress up and running pretty fast, I installed the Blix-theme, but plan to make my own later.

The effort to increase the knowledge of the blog, and increase traffic started Monday, immediately after I published the first post about syncing cell phone calendars. By default Wordpress sends out a ping to a lot of blog directories, besides that I signed op at Technorati and submitted the blog to Yahoo, Gooogle and MSN. The effort to advertise the continued Wednesday when I found a list blog-directories and rss-submission sites, I was just to much in a hurry, resulting in descriptions with errors and that I don’t remember which sites I’ve submitted to an which not.

As I wanted it all, I signed up for Google adwords, in order to get ads on the site to. It took a couple of days for them to approve my application, but Thursday that was up and running to. In the above graph I’ve illustrated the development in the traffic or reffering. This shows that the Blogging-sites gave the initial traffic, and that the traffic from Google seems to be increasing, while the other search engines has not yet provided any traffic.

All in all I’ve had about 250 unique users (not counting bots), I don’t know if that is good or bad after one week, but it is the goal to improve that. When looking at these users I saw that they were from all over the world. Since Firefox users where a vast majority I think it is safe to say, that my blog thus fare has attracted the more geeky part of the internet population. But maybe this ratio will change if I start getting some traffic from MSN and Yahoo?

The big question is; what now?

It’s been good fun, so I’ve decided to keep the Blog for now. I’m not going do a lot to please the search engines. However I will try to improve the content and maybe get a better idea of a target audience. I will keep adding content (although at a slower pace) for the next week or so, and then go on my summer holiday for three weeks. After the summer holiday I will try my first Pay-Per-Click campaign to really increase traffic. But I will probably make a post about that when I get that far.