Tips - Upstart Blogger

_Jun 24 08

I’ll keep this post short since I’m in and out of the studio today, posting this from my Powerbook in between sessions.
Repetitive strain injury and carpal tunnel syndrome. Two nasty physical conditions that can make a bloggers life a painful misery. Thankfully they are both avoidable, and even treatable if prevention is too […]

_Avoid blogging induced carpal tunnel syndrome with this cool gadget

_Apr 09 08

_Ashley Morgan_Tips_2 Comments

If you don’t take control of your email then it will control you. It’s that simple. Email bankruptcy, the process of simply deleting everything and starting from scratch, is currently the trendy option but it is a pretty stupid thing to do. Throwing out everything is only going to come back to […]

_Reclaim your inbox

_Mar 21 08

_Ashley Morgan_Software Tips_No Comments

Even after shifting to Gmail and escaping from the grips of the spammers thanks to it’s impressive filters I still have an email problem.
My voluminous amounts of email can be split into two groups. The first group is email from people who are important to me and whose emails I want to be notified […]

_Take total control of your email with Highrise and RSS

_Jan 27 08

_Ashley Morgan_Blogging Tips_1 Comment

You can judge a blog by the company it keeps.
I recently turned down an application to join the 30 day blogging program because the blogger in question was linking to questionable websites. Although the applicant maintained his innocence and said that the websites he was linking to were, and I quote, “just […]

_Be careful who you link to

_Jan 19 08

_Ashley Morgan_Tips_1 Comment

Spam continues to plague the internet despite numerous attempts by service providers to stop it. As anyone who has been active online for more than 10 minutes will confirm, spam is an ongoing nightmare with no end in sight.
With over 20 domains under my control, each with it’s own email address, I’ve seen spam in […]

_A free spam blocking solution that works

_Jan 16 08

_Ashley Morgan_Blogging Tips_1 Comment

A blog, be it personal or professional or any combination of the two, is a communication medium that benefits from transparency and honesty. One of the easiest ways to make your blog more accessible and generally a nice place to be is to add a photograph to your about page. Unfortunately, many bloggers don’t have […]

_Quick and easy biography photography for bloggers

_Jan 26 07

_Robert Ellis_Pligg Tips_32 Comments

Pligg is a Digg-style, open source CMS. It’s full of promise, but Pligg is still in beta, with limited documentation and few available templates.
I hacked a template to create my Pligg site, Futurosity (you’re free to use the template, FuturePligg Solemnity ). In the hopes that more Pliggers will create freely available templates, here’s […]