09/02: The Blogging Life and Blog Editors, Firefox Tools, Reseller Deals

Whilst I accept that my rate of posting has slowed down a little since the beginning of the year, it has been disappointing to see a big drop off in the commenting activity and also a reduction in my subscriber base.

This seems to correlate entirely with my own commenting inactivity and makes a blogger wonder whether commenting becomes a bit of a merry-go-round of futility - a kind of you stop, they stop. It's a shame because for the entrepreneurial souls who do read my blog, I think I've provided some pretty good information over the past few weeks and some lnks to some really useful free sites and tools. However, at the risk of sounding like a whiner, let's move swiftly on!

The major reason for my less hearty enjoining in my fellow blogger's cries to the wilderness was a meltdown of the tired old laptop (sob) and the subsequent removal to a less than happy desktop. Clearing the whole system of trojans, malware, spyware, adware and the like was a major task in itself. Then, the slow process of rebuilding a machine that I could work with. Everything was fortunately backed up (well, most of it), but re-installing so many tools is taking a fair while and I'm doing it on a "need to use basis".

One of the casualties was my RSS feeds and that's the next job on my list - amazing how i've come to rely on RSS so much for following blogs.

I was disappointed to see that Post2Blog is no longer being supported by the program owners and will doubtless die a slow death. It was my editor of choice for a long time as it actually worked with Nucleus. You can still download a copy, but, even the program owners recommend a move to Live Writer, which I'm now using for my Wordpress sites, and would recommend to any Wordpress blogger. Can't get it to talk to this blog however!

By way of consolation all the reuilding has led to discoveries of  other interesting and useful things like the Firefox MoneyQuake add on, now residing on my system and the excellent Rating Dominator plugin for Wordpress. Other new Firefox additions include SEOQuake, WordCount (great if you do a lot of writing) and Fireshot (lovely screen cap add on) which are all very worthy tools.

The article directory is growing at a reasonabe rate and still taking up a fair amount of time and sweat, but it's beginning to pay off. I've also been busy writing a few more articles of my own as it was something I had let slip in the latter part of 2007.  Yes, I'm still looking for authors so please drop by and contribute your prose - any subject you like as long as it's suitable for viewers of all ages.

I posted over at the main site regarding a free reseller hosting service which may or may not be of interest to readers of this blog. (original reseller article here).  

Despite my apparent lack of work on these pages, I've actually been busier than ever :-)

I must apoligise to Lin over at TellingItLikeItIs who tagged me for a Media Week Meme, and respectfully make it my first Unmeme (copyright RT) as I just don't have the time to participate this time around.

Nikki and I will shortly be moving to the other end of the island, and there is much else going on at a personal level which I may or may not share in due course ;-) 

TCH

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