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Back online after a slump caused by a Trojan. Beware, beware you self-hosted bloggers. Don’t leave anonymous ftp open on your server – which is the stupid default on CPanel.
Anyway after days of work and some expense I tracked the beast to its lair, but in the process of restoring the posts, a lot of question marks replaced various bits of punctuation. Dispiriting. Sorry to those of you who read older entries, but I can’t face the job of fixing those right now.
Tags: blogging
In our relentless quest to dominate the universe, we are experimenting with site map generators. Please ignore this post if you are human. If geek, what have you tried, and what works?
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If you think you read something here which is no longer here, you are correct. A week’s worth of posts, comments and laborious tweaks has been lost. I am too embarrassed to tell you why: stupidity was involved, you don’t need details.
A meaningful Easter to those of you who have them, and for the others, this piece of chocolate-based theology.
Tags: blogging
Well, the badge itself hasn’t actually arrived yet, but the tireless Jonathan Crossfield at CopyWrite has included us in his Top 50 Australian Blogs on Writing. Are we chuffed, we who talk of ‘fit audience tho’ few?’ Bloody right we are.
Garrison Keillor nailed it. Writers don’t want to mumble ‘Glad you enjoyed the book’. They want to say ‘Rise, my grateful people.’
People talk of ‘monetising’ (or if American, of ‘monetizing’); their blogs or websites. Why this verb? Let’s consider the options. ‘Making money out of’ hints at exploitation, ‘making money from’ suggests that money will actually be made (with blogs, about a 1/1,000,000 chance) To ‘monetise’ cleans up the process; it’s technical and neutral; neither ethics nor the possibility of success need enter into it.
Nothing wrong with making money. I just wish people would be more straightforward about it.
Consider the case of Nathan Rice, a prominent WordPress guru and theme designer. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: blogging, ethics, language and ethics
