I always felt about blogging just like I felt about building websites 6-7 years ago: I had tools, I had resources, I even had knowledge (according to 80/20 Pareto principle) to build things, but I didn’t have any idea WHAT to build!

This plugin collects the comments you posted on other people’s websites and lets you display them on your own blog. For more info, read the announcement blog post.

Wordpress Notifier is a freeware application that alerts you when new unapproved comments are posted on your Wordpress blog. It lives in the Mac OS X Status Bar and displays the current unapproved comment count.

Moderator is a simple app that does its job well. The app provides you with notifications of how many comments are waiting on your approval both inside the app and also when the app is docked in your taskbar

“Blogging will become a professional sport.” Hiermee bedoelde hij twee dingen. Ten eerste, grote blogs zijn geprofressionaliseerd. Het zijn eigenlijk “oude media bedrijven” geworden. Ten tweede, het is niet meer zo makkelijk om in de markt van blogs te stappen. Wanneer je nog een niche weet te vinden, dan heb je een goede kans om “groot” te worden. 2. “Future of blogs. Blogs will become more distributed over more media channels.” Hiermee bedoelde Cashmore dat blogs andere kanalen (zoals Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon) moeten inzetten om zichzelf te promoten en om de conversatie met lezers aan te gaan.

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.

There are lots of reasons to be blogging: capture your thoughts, share moments, build relationships, establish thought leadership, sell electric toothbrushes, whatever. None of them are especially wrong. But if you’re going to blog with the perspective

Use the Tumblr API and the Code Igniter PHP framework to build a lifestream blog website.

Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is driven by PHP and MySQL (with some AJAX thrown in), and has a pimpin’ theme and module engine, so you can personalize it however you want.

Here are three easy but important ways to protect yourself if you run a WordPress blog

Robert Scoble en Shel Israel, auteurs van Naked Conversations, vragen zich af of bloggen passé is.

Here’s how to get your blog (or any other RSS or Atom feed) twittering:

Recently I took a look at the numerous WordPress blogs I maintain and decided to extract some of the best plugins I use across them. They range from spam management to reporting and stats to authentication and better overall functionality.

Hoe pas je een weblog toe in je marketing/media mix?; Welke bedrijven kunnen beter niet gaan bloggen? Het zijn enkele vragen die aan de orde komen tijdens de 4e Business Blog Meeting, die op vrijdag 29 juni gehouden wordt in Utrecht.

Verslag van Euroblog2007, het Europese symposium over social software.

"How can you grow your blog to make it uniquely interesting, engaging and followed by many avid readers?