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The title says it all… After a blogging holiday I am back with more spare time, fresh full of ideas and new enthusiasm, I did note however that it was hard to get windows live writer and start my first post back and I thought I’d share some of the reasons with you

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Completely avoiding the double entendres that could be drawn out of being a blogger that Does Follow; I have now decided to open all comments on this blog to let their url’s not be shielded by a "link condom".  I really like the idea of people commenting on my blog and encourage […]

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You may have seen boxes appear in the last few months on people’s blogs that look like:

I have one on the right hand side of my blog.  This service is called Blogrush.  The idea is that you sign up your blog and they will display your posts headlines on other people’s blogs […]

I have been suffering from serious computer problems, a heavy workload, cramming for exams and trying to keep the blog filled with unique and original content. John Chow reckons that his average posts take him ten minutes to write and although this is reflected in the quality of the content it is something that I am going to do until my exams are finished. I am going to put ideas that I would normally flesh out into a long post into a shorter one and invite comments. The best posts over this period I will then take the effort to re-write and encapsulate the ideas that are left in the comments.

Recently I was contemplating redesigning my blog, and was told by a regular reader that I need a really Large RSS icon to make sure readers have somewhere to subscribe to. This made me feel rather Inadequate and I decided to ignore the comment.

Days Later, as a point of interest I went out looking for some Beautiful and Large RSS images for my blog. I found some of these;

The Big

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My last post indicated the plugins that I use on my blog.  These are fine but some require that you change code in the actual blog.  Changing code is not something that I think people should have to do when all they want to do is publish their thoughts and ideas in […]

Plugins extend and expand the functionality of WordPress. If you are hosting your own blog and want to have complete control over its appearance and functionality then plugins are for you.  They are generally very easy to install and what they will do make it easy for someone who can’t or don’t want to touch the code to create a site that really rocks.

The concept is very similar to plugins for applications like firefox, where you can download code that increase what they can do see The Top 50 Lightweight Firefox Add-Ons. Powerful plugins and extensions that will not kill your computer for information about other plugins that I find extremely useful.

I have noticed that it is hard to find what actual plugins people use on their blogs and how they actually look when they are installed.  Here is what I have currently installed on my blog and why I chose those plugins.  Note that currently the only code changes to Wordpress and my template that I have made, with the exception of plugins are just to implement the threaded comments (just overwriting a file) everything else is as a result of the theme that I am using and the configuration of the plugins I have installed.

In one sentence plugins let you do cool stuff that you can’t do with a default wordpress install or by changing the code yourself.

The Plugins below are in no particular order and I am using all of them..

If you are using something else you think I should try -  please post below, also consider subscribing to my RSS feed (either in your newsreader or via email) and share this with others.

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ProBlogger is one of the biggest blogs online that has information about blogging and making money online.  This week having a birthday bash and giving away over $54,000 worth of prizes over the next seven days.  There are many competitions, many involve using your blog to enter competitions and to blog about […]

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Thankyou for all the feedback from my last post - Why You Should Want an A-List Blogger to Notice You - Many of the ideas I was sent are incorporated in this post, and others may be a separate venture I will start in the coming months.
As my previous post indicated blogging […]

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Influence is not all that an a-list blogger has that is valuable to an aspiring blogger like myself.
I started blogging to meet people, encourage discussion, write about things that interest me and belong to a community. After attempting to blog for some time I have made the following observations:

It is very lonely […]

The Ethics of Blogging:
Should There Be a Blogging
Code of Conduct? One of
the articles that I had been
thinking about that was not
necessarily relevant to my
blogging theme was if
there are ethics to blogging
and what should be
disclosed, discussed
conversed, done to other
blogs, interaction with
communities, advertising,
monetizing and
manipulation of content.
One of the problems that I
have always had with
ethics and morals is that to
me there is no central set
of ethics and morals, not
just world-wide, but within
any society or even family.
What is appropriate and
acceptable conduct for one
person is not for another.
Different people have

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I started blogging as I was inspired that I could write quality articles that people would enjoy reading.I thought that I would have my own style and I would be able to meet new people and exchange ideas.
Unfortunately I have become distracted with many other areas and aspects of blogging that I […]

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I chose WordPress for my blog because I have been reading many articles that suggested that its clean lines, SEO compatibility, that I have done a lot with PHP and it had a 5 minute install. 
As it turns out - if you are using a shared hosting solution; which is cheap and cheerful […]