Tag Archives: blogging

How to Make a WordPress Blog Run Faster

Optimizing WordPress using a CDN (Content Delivery Network) My blog had been running, if that’s what you could call it, at speeds approximating a gimpy turtle walking in mud uphill… you get the idea. So I started investigating the technical methods used by pro web developers to make their blogs load fast.

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Before you make a claim, get the data.

This  kind of post is always interesting to me. Someday, I’ll figure out why, but for now suffice it to say that when you claim to be an expert about something, at least follow your own rules. The article (a self-referential metablog which attempts to give you some rules for making a good blog) instructs the [...]

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Not Exactly Rocket Science : Top Ten Bacteria

Image via Wikipedia My new favorite thing. I think I may replace all the marketing blogs I read with science blogs. I especially love Ed Yong’s bio: Ed Yong lives in London and works at Cancer Research UK. Not Exactly Rocket Science is his attempt to make science interesting to everyone by beating jargon, confusion [...]

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Waiting for Godin, Network Solutions and Zemanta

Well, I finally figured out the way to capture blog readers: mention their company in your post. Since I blogged about Network Solutions the other day, I saw on my Google Analytics page that the person from Arlington, VA, (HELLO ARLINGTON!!! WOOHOO!) did a search for the phrase “network solutions”, found my post, and then [...]

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