What are some good blogs for discovering new blogs? (explanation within) [more inside]
posted on May 3, 2008 - 4 answers

Is there a blog service that has all the features I need? I've tried Blogger, Livejournal, and Wordpress.com, but none of them seems like quite the ticket. See inside for the 3 features I'm looking for. [more inside]
posted on Apr 16, 2008 - 31 answers

What is the best way to share my blogging when I have different friends on myspace, livejournal, blogspot, facebook. etc. [more inside]
posted on Mar 2, 2008 - 8 answers

I'm having issues with my AddThis button on my blog. [more inside]
posted on Mar 1, 2008 - 2 answers

New blog at Wordpress.com. Would like to use w.bloggar as my desktop editor for posts. Everything's configured properly and looking great, except for this error I get when I start up w.bloggar: "w.bloggar: 401 / Your blog server returned the following error message: / Sorry, you must be able to edit posts on this blog in order to view categories." I'm sure there's a simple explanation, but googling and FAQ digging turn up nothing. What gives?
posted on Feb 21, 2008 - 5 answers

How can I get wordpress to show a post as though it had been published in the future? [more inside]
posted on Jan 27, 2008 - 12 answers

I've set up a self hosted blog. I've got it looking pretty much how I want it, but I want a javascript based "advert" (it's an animated Kiva.org thing) in the sidebar. The blogging platform is Wordpress, which doesn't allow javascript if the blog is hosted on their servers. [more inside]
posted on Jan 6, 2008 - 5 answers

Is anyone out there publishing analysis or actively tracking interesting developments/trends in blogging in terms of the emerging patterns in the form and functionality of the blogs themselves? [more inside]
posted on Dec 30, 2007 - 4 answers

I have a new community blog that is a place for people in my industry to talk shop. I want to get the word out and have a very inviting stack of business cards that I have collected over the years at industry conferences. Is it appropriate to email any of these contacts and ask them to write/contribute or just tell them about the blog? [more inside]
posted on Nov 12, 2007 - 5 answers

Movable Type question involving the counting and sequential numbering of entries within one specific blog on a multi-blog system. [more inside]
posted on Sep 24, 2007 - 6 answers

I'm starting a psychology-related blog that will focus on reviewing interesting and socially relevant literature. If you were a visitor to this blog, what type of topics would you be most interested in reading? [more inside]
posted on Sep 16, 2007 - 9 answers

Very occasionally, I'd like to be able to pull a **single** post from one of my blogs into another. In other words, not just link to it, but actually have the post in Blog A show up as a post in Blog B, without having to re-type it and duplicate content. Does anyone know a way to do this? I don't want to scrape the entire feed for all posts in Blog A into Blog B. Thanks!
posted on Aug 17, 2007 - 9 answers

I have three blogs. What communities will allow me to automatically send new blog entries to the community--say in a journal form? [more inside]
posted on Jul 20, 2007 - 3 answers

BlogFilter: I found the blogfarms too confining for my blog, but I miss the social features. Is there any way to duplicate this for my self-hosted blog? [more inside]
posted on Jul 18, 2007 - 10 answers

[Wordpress 2.2.1 Filter] How can I make Wordpress stop thinking too much for me when it comes to text formatting, etc? [more inside]
posted on Jul 18, 2007 - 2 answers

I have a personal blog running under Movable Type. I want to move to WordPress. I've exported the existing entries to a text file, so that's good. However, a couple years ago my previous MT install tanked (similar to this). I cannot access it. I have several years worth of posts that are stuck in a database that I can't get to. I've been gradually moving these by hand to my existing MT install, but that's a pain in the ass. Is there some automated way to crawl/scrape the existing HTML files in order to retrieve these "lost" entries? Some way to break back into a corrupt MT database? Some way to repair it? (The install is BerkelyDB-based.) [more inside]
posted on Jun 29, 2007 - 11 answers

Wanted: latest advice and software recommendations for starting a community blog. [more inside]
posted on Jun 24, 2007 - 4 answers

I'd like to hire one, or maybe two, bloggers to keep my subject-specific weblog updated while I go on vacation (two weeks only). Is there a website that hooks up bloggers with potential clients for this purpose?
posted on May 28, 2007 - 9 answers

Can I use a desktop blogging client to upload posts but keep them 'Unpublished' in Movable Type? What exactly happens when Movable Type publishes? [more inside]
posted on Apr 22, 2007 - 5 answers

When it comes to blogging, has it all been done? [more inside]
posted on Mar 24, 2007 - 11 answers

What's my best option for a multiple-user blog? [more inside]
posted on Mar 15, 2007 - 13 answers

After reading this answer, I have decided to follow its advice to improve my written english. However I feel that I have nothing to write. [more inside]
posted on Feb 18, 2007 - 12 answers

What's the best way to convert an existing Blogger blog into Movable Type? [more inside]
posted on Feb 10, 2007 - 3 answers

How do I integrate my existing blog with my MySpace blog? [more inside]
posted on Jan 9, 2007 - 5 answers

Whatever happened to TrackBack? [more inside]
posted on Sep 24, 2006 - 17 answers

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster. -- Sun Tzu I get a lot of blog spam on my website and it got me thinking; if I am to fight it more effectively I need to learn more about it. How is it actually sent, what software or scripts do people use, and where do these people hang out on the Internet? [more inside]
posted on Sep 20, 2006 - 4 answers

Has anyone come across a Movable Type blogroll plug-in similar to this Wordpress blogroll plug-in (in that it can expand and contract)?
posted on Jul 27, 2006 - 5 answers

Moving from Blogger to Wordpress: Can I pay someone to have it done? [more inside]
posted on Jul 18, 2006 - 8 answers

My dad wants to start a blog. What should I get him to read/understand about the "Blogosphere" before he does? [more inside]
posted on Jul 2, 2006 - 7 answers

I want to start a Wikipedia page featuring the domains of blog spammers. Does one already exist?
posted on Jun 27, 2006 - 12 answers

I had a blog for many years that I let wither on the vine. I no longer have the site, but I *do* have an export of my Movable Type entries. Is there any way to get this printed ? Any companies that will work with a file? Other blogging tools that take MT exports that will produce a printable version ? I'll settle for any solution, from a bound book to straight-up printable pdf.
posted on Jun 13, 2006 - 12 answers

I've had a couple smaller splogs that gave up after a period of time. However, one splog has persisted and, through volume, is showing up higher in searches than my original posts. What can I do? [more inside]
posted on May 23, 2006 - 6 answers

Blogging 201: Let's kick it up a notch! [more inside]
posted on Apr 12, 2006 - 15 answers

Who can tell me anything about a company called Newstex? Are they legit? [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2006 - 3 answers

I have been using reblog to combine two feeds (for a blog and a forum) which I then publish through Feedburner. What I want to do is have the blog part of my feed update normally (i.e. individual posts) and the forum part of my feed compiled into a daily link list (which itself is published as if it were ONE feed post each day)... What ways exist for me to do this? [more inside]
posted on Mar 29, 2006 - 1 answers

How can I outrank bad comments? [more inside]
posted on Mar 23, 2006 - 37 answers

Are my sister and I the world's first "Brother Sister Blog Team" or has it been done before? Personally, I haven't been able to find any. [more inside]
posted on Mar 7, 2006 - 13 answers

Ghost-writing multiple corporate blogs for a living. Is it feasible? Do companies all want exclusive rights to the content -- thereby removing the option of leveraging the same content on multiple blogs? (I'm aware there are clearinghouses that will market your blogging, but I'm not talking about that type of piecemeal work.) Any bloggers out there who are employed by multiple corporations?
posted on Feb 9, 2006 - 3 answers

Best ways to promote an MP3 blog? [more inside]
posted on Nov 30, 2005 - 11 answers

What are your recommended reads (print, webpage, etc) for blog design/usability information? What makes or breaks a blog? Bonus: Examples of what to do and what not to do. [more inside]
posted on Nov 21, 2005 - 7 answers

Can someone recommend a simple method or app for making monthly local archives of web-based blogs? In my case, the site is blogger, the save location is on a Mac.
posted on Oct 24, 2005 - 10 answers

Blogging in the classroom. I've decided to set-up a blog for my students this semester. This will be the place for their response papers, writing exercises and a few other tidbits. It needs to have access for 5-10 members, a very easy set-up, free-to-near-free pricing (although I would pay or find the dollars to fund if it was warranted), and very clear posting/linking instructions for the students. Advice on selecting a blogging system needed. [more inside]
posted on Aug 31, 2005 - 14 answers

I want to start blogging, but I'm not sure if any blogware / hosting site does what I want. [more inside]
posted on Aug 25, 2005 - 14 answers

The company I work for wants to get on the blog bandwagon and I need to get things set up. Right now our website is hosted by Verio on a co-located server running Windows. [more inside]
posted on Jun 15, 2005 - 8 answers

WordPress users: What plugins have you found useful? My wife and I are both new WordPress users, after an arduous battle to wrest our previous entries from Blogger's paws. I'd like to extend the functionality of our sites, but the number of plugins available is a little daunting. What plugins do you use?
posted on Mar 22, 2005 - 8 answers

What do you consider to be the bare essentials of function in a blog?

My soon-to-be "blog" is going to be a collection of my crappy creative non-fiction and fiction. I like simple. But I don't know that everyone else does. Do you miss stuff like referrers/trackbacks, feeds, email notification, archives by category, searches, commenting, etc., if they aren't there?
posted on Feb 10, 2005 - 14 answers

I'm a TypePad user, moving to Movable Type. I know that MT is much more powerful, but out of the (virtual) box, it is lacking in a lot of the cool features (book lists, photo albums, blogrolls) that TypePad has built in.

What's the best place for a n00b like me to go to start bringing MT into line with what I had in TypePad? I've been slogging through the MT Plugins site, but if there's an even easier guide out there, I'll gladly admit I'm an MT loser and just paint-by-numbers!
posted on Jan 8, 2005 - 11 answers

My current host is closing down, and since I bought my domain through them it will be transferred into my name before they finally close at the end of the year. However, my domain expires on December 12, and they are so far unresponsive to my emails and have not transferred the domain (it has been two weeks since my initial request). I am worried that if I'm not able to renew it, it will be snapped up by a domain-sitter and I will lose it. In case it isn't transferred in time, is there a way I can beat the domain-sitters to it and reserve my domain? What are the more affordable options for doing this? Will I be guaranteed to get it?
posted on Nov 18, 2004 - 6 answers

Is there any extremely easy way to password protect a blog. The real goal is to have a blog-as-ecommerce. I need to figure out how to set up subscriptions to the blog, charge (via paypal) and give each user a unique password and login. Any software I can get/buy to do this? If I have to hire someone who can build this for me, where do I look and what should it cost? I won't have many subscribers, so I can handle some issues mannualy if need be, but the more automated the better.
posted on Nov 15, 2004 - 8 answers

Blank text in Movable Type 2.661 on IE 6 - until mouseover or scroll - then text shows up. What's going on?
posted on Aug 30, 2004 - 8 answers

Private online journals. Is LiveJournal the best option? [more inside]
posted on Jul 29, 2004 - 8 answers

Looking for rss aggregation tools that can be used to publish an aggregated weblog. I've found Planet Planet, does anyone have any other suggestions?
posted on May 9, 2004 - 2 answers

Blogging application that includes line-numbering? I'd like to publish content for peer review, in chonologic blog format, with automatic line numbering, so that people can comment, by line number, on my writing. Obviously, the line breaks and numbers have to be the same for everyone. AfterDinner.com offers this functionality, though it isn't really a blogging application. I'm a veteran Blogger user, and willing to do a little bit of creative coding (eg: light hacking of Moveable Type). Any help?
posted on Jan 25, 2004 - 12 answers

I'm in the process of starting my own weblog (it launched on Thursday). I can write pretty decent basic HTML by hand (in notepad), but CSS wrestled me to the ground and stepped on my head and a lot of tech jargon passes me right by (I'm a designer and a writer, not a programer, I guess). What advice does Metafilter have for me?
posted on Dec 8, 2003 - 35 answers