Category: Blogging

Tweeting - Twittering
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Apologies for double Twitter daily digest posts

Those of you who are following my blog via a RSS reader will have noticed a duplication of the daily digest of my Twitter posts. I apologize for the inconvenience, and am trying to fix the issue. The daily digest of  Twitter posts is a useful and easy way for people to quickly view most [...]

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Problem posting to my blog.

Earlier this year I was running a bit behind and did not attempt to write a post until late. I then discovered that I could not log in to post and also that the site (blog) itself was also down. My other blogs were fine. Clearly this was a concern, however I did not stress [...]

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Fed up with the 45 tag cloud limit on the standard WordPress install?

WordPress (.org self hosted) is one of my favorite applications. It’s really slick – the gold standard for blogging. Well made and thought out. Besides the WordPress developers, I salute the plugin developers too. I have one small gripe however…. (well, two)…. WordPress installs with a default 45 tag limit in the tag cloud, along [...]

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Disclosure Policy added to blog and website.

I have added a disclosure policy to both my blog and website, which can be viewed here: Website: http://www.blackshaman.com/Disclosure-Policy.html Blog: http://blackshaman.net/about/disclosure-policy Should you have any questions please contact me here. Thank you. When writing this policy, I was assisted by Disclosure Policy Dot Org To get help with your own policy, go to http://www.disclosurepolicy.org

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Blogging Tips 3 – choice of theme
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Blogging Tips 3 – choice of theme

WordPress Blog themes – there are so many to choose from, so why did I choose WP-MediaMag from Solostream for this blog? (Note: originally, I used WP-Vybe, another excellent theme, also from Solostream, for this blog). Whatever I do in life, I aim to do well – without being perfectionistic – and one of the fundamental [...]

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Blogging Tips 2

Welcome to Blogging Tips 2, the second in my series on Blogging. The first post is here: Blogging Tips 1 – (includes what torn stockings & blogs have in common). Today I will be telling you how you can buy your own domain name for around $10 USD per year and US web hosting for [...]

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Blogging Tips 1 – (includes what torn stockings & blogs have in common).
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Blogging Tips 1 – (includes what torn stockings & blogs have in common).

Blogging is becoming increasingly popular for both business and personal reasons. More people are flooding into the blogosphere daily. I will be writing a series of articles on blogging. I will be keeping things simple and focus on things which help people avoid pitfalls and getting bogged down with hard technical stuff or other crap. [...]

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Web usability – blog tag cloud.
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Web usability – blog tag cloud.

This post is about user friendly blog tag clouds. If you look across to the right you will see a section called Tags. The Tags box shows all the tags that I have used up until now. Clicking on a tag will bring up a list of all the articles that I have tagged with [...]

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Blog reading made easy.
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Blog reading made easy.

Reading blogs is becoming an increasingly common pastime. It will become even more so as we move into the future. This article is to help those who do not know what RSS is or how to use an RSS reader, or even those who have no idea that you can subscribe to a blog via [...]

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General information.

To start off…  a quick note to say thank you for reading my blog. ~ Blog posts on my Black Shaman blog will progressively increase in frequency from now on. Recently I have been busy with other things, including the organisation of my BlackShaman.com ,website which is still under construction. I have some extra pages/plug [...]

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Backing up your WordPress blog.

Backing up digital media is essential. You may have read my earlier article about backing up computers: Are you worried about losing the data on your PC? If you have a blog, or website, it is very important to back up those as well. One of the key problems with backing up can be the [...]

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