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WordPress 2.3.1 is now available. 2.3.1 is a bug-fix and security release for the 2.3 series. There are several bug fixes. One nice addition is the categories integrate even better with Windows Live Writer.
The upgrade was straight forward as usual. Get the latest Akismet plugin as well.

This past February I posted a launcher for Windows Live Writer so that you can take it with your between computers and retain all your settings. Today I am releasing version 2.0 of the Launcher. Much has changed with Windows Live Writer and I have learned some new techniques for making it portable. This is [...]

I’ve created a new Yahoo Pipe that I call Tag Monitor. This Pipe will monitor Google Blogsearch, Technorati, del.icio.us, Ice Rocket, Sphere and Flickr for items taged with the word you enter. Its handy to create new feeds to follow events such as gnomedex07.
Tag Monitor
Technorati Tags: tagging, tags, gnomedex07

Technorati tags: Humor

Do you blog? MarketWire is doing a survey to find out if bloggers are incorporating news into their blog posts.
Blogs & news sources survey
 
Technorati tags: news, blogging, survey

If you haven’t logged in to Feedburner lately you may have missed the notice. They let you opt-out if you don’t want to be part of Google.
Service of FeedBurner publisher accounts will not be interrupted as a result of the acquisition by Google. You will have a 14-day interim period ending June 15, 2007 to [...]

In the first installment of this series (How Come I Have No Readers? Part 1 - Feeds) I described how to provide your readers a way to subscribe to your blog. Now that you have that all set up correctly it is time to help people find your blog.
Great, you told your family and friends [...]

I hear it from time to time. People complain that they blog but they have no readers. Is there anything that can be done about it? Now seems like a nice time to have a look at this topic.
First take a step back and get over your bad self. No one owes you their readership. [...]

If you’re a blogger you’ll want to keep track of who is linking to you. One way is to go to Google’s Blogsearch and enter link:yourblogurl to find out who is linking.
Another method is to use my new Yahoo! Pipe. Simply enter your URL (without the HTTP part), click Run Pipe then click Subscribe to subscribe to the [...]

This morning on The RSS Blog, Randy Morin posted about a link to Kent Newsome’s article about the unblogosphere. You have to first understand that an ‘unconference’ is a relatively new term for a new type of conference where there really isn’t an audience. Presenters and speakers are basically on the same plane with equal [...]