Category Archives: Blogging

Posts about or relating to blogs, blogging and bloggers.

Who is the sidebar for?

May 17, 2008 – 3:15 pm

The vast majority of blogs out there have a section of the blog called the sidebar. Some will have a single sidebar that can be located on either the left of right side of the main content of the blog. Others might have two or more with the placement of those sidebars either together [...]

By Steven Hodson |

A couple of suggestions for the Windows Live Writer team

May 16, 2008 – 11:20 pm

I am an unabashed fan of Windows Live Writer and along with OneNote I think it is one of the best programs Windows has made available in the last few years. For me blogging wouldn’t be as easy or even enjoyable without this gem of a program. Along with all the well written plugins [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Software |

Setting your brand free

May 12, 2008 – 4:43 pm

There is no denying that the Internet is an incredible self propagating creation that has become an integral part of our society. Through it and all the services that live within it our lives have in one fashion or another been changed and continue to be changed. No more so has this change been [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Social Media |

Disqus - the non-stupid version

May 11, 2008 – 2:23 pm

It must be the weekend because people seem to be arguing once again about the stupidest things. Top of the list this weekend is whether using the Disqus commenting framework on blogs is stupid or not. It was cleverly started by Fred Wilson who acknowledged in his post that yes he was an investor [...]

By Steven Hodson |

It’s about respect

May 9, 2008 – 5:27 pm

Since the very first web pages links have been the backbone of how we travel around the web and how we keep track of things that interest us. With Google they have become a commodity as they are the basis of how Google calculates their Page Rank for every site or blog in their [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet |

Who will walk in the footsteps of Duncan Riley?

May 6, 2008 – 12:02 am

As most of you have heard by now Duncan Riley has written his last post on TechCrunch after being with the blog owned by Michael Arrington for almost a year to the day. Right now I’m listening to the podcast that Duncan did with Matt Craven that got posted today as well which is [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet |

Twitter as a blog promotion tool

May 2, 2008 – 11:09 pm

Back on April 26th I wrote a post outlining an experiment that I was going to try here at WinExtra. One of the parts of the experiment was to stop using Twitter as a way to announce new posts and rely strictly on them being announced automatically on FriendFeed.
I wanted to see if indeed [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Miscellaneous, Site News |

Can we please give the term ‘blogger’ the kiss off

April 30, 2008 – 4:24 pm

While there might be some minor points of discussion about actual dates the generally accepted time period that blogging has been around is ten years. In that time we have seen what first started out as web-logs where we could share all those wonder daily events with anyone who cared to read them evolve [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet |