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Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

Day Trading Help — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:44:54 -0000

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I have seen so much junk on the internet, so it is nice to see something positive being said.
Kind regards,
Barry

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

Гинеколог — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:09:46 -0000

Update! WordPress 2.6.2

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

Brett — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:00:23 -0000

I use both Wordpress and BlueHost. Amazing service from each. The functionality Wordpress gives up is amazing. BlueHost cpanel is unequaled. I have been using both services for over a year, all with out one single problem.

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

Anghus — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:55:38 -0000

Guess you can fly to Mars and beat them :)

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

Lloyd Dewolf — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:06:32 -0000

Hi Robert,

Have you considered adding the Akismet widget to your sidebar to show off just how much SPAM never sees the light of day?

Cheers,
Lloyd

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

imhelendt — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:51:37 -0000

Raincoaster-
I've only been able to do that once (on my old blog.). And I got 50,000 hits in three days. Made CNET. It's hard to repeat that. :)

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

raincoaster — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:39:47 -0000

Blog about something that EVERYONE will be talking about in two days. Do it now. Get on Metafilter and Bob's your uncle (700 hits in 12 hours on top of my regular).

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

imhelendt — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:09:24 -0000

Robert-
You're just teasing me with the title. You really didn't tell me how to beat you on Wordpress. And Lord knows, I'm trying. ;) I can't afford to go into space. So new plan, K? ;)

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

jayson knight — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:54:25 -0000

Community Server user since the early betas of 1.0, and was .Text before that. Before .Text I was using a homegrown solution. Self hosted for a couple of years but got sick of the administrative overhead so I moved to ASPnix.

For everyone who loves Akismet (me included) CS2.1 has full support for Akismet, and CS3.0 (last I checked at least) will have support built in natively for Akismet.

WP is just too lightweight IMO, but it's still a great service.

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

byteburn — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:24:07 -0000

it seems i cannot open the spaceblog site. maybe too much traffic sent the site down

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

byteburn — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:22:38 -0000

yes, using a hosted wordpress is better. lots of plug-ins

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

bluecollar49 — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:17:19 -0000

Hey, Looks like your # 3 now. that's the first time since I have been here that I've seen you at #3!

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

Brandon — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:44:04 -0000

I use Wordpress:
http://doanair.wordpress.com/

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

mrgoat — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:17:17 -0000

a) free wordpress accounts suck.
b) becuase you can do SHIT with them

I have apopular blog and want migrate it to a paid for server, real instal of WP andall that. I can't do redirect of the traffic or attcess HTACCESS to do this myself

I know its free and I shouldnt complain

But I am

Let us bastard well redirect you gits

xxx

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

Liz Krane — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:15:57 -0000

I spent a fair amount of time looking at other free hosted services, and WordPress is definitely the way to go. I'm also on WordPress.com, but I plan to switch to a self-hosted version of WordPress one day.

And congrats on #2! I was getting bored of always seeing your blog at the top, too. ;)

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

kOoLiNuS — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:07:54 -0000

Robert, why you - just for fun - don't start a new blog starting from nowhere ?

Leave this "void" of capital's contents and give us them in the new "space ghost" blog.

We could learn a thing or two on quality energy to emerge on a 300k+ blog arena, don't you think so?

:-)

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

Guest — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:35:56 -0000

Robert, I'm not very technical and I spend very little time on my hosted Wordpress blog as far as admin stuff goes. Once you get it up and running ok, there's not that much too it. Sure, you can tweak templates for hours but I don't see it as much of a time drain to just keep it running. I tried a number of others before moving to Wordpress; Radio, Expression Engine, Graymatter and Moveable Type to name a few. Wordpress has been the best choice for my blog mostly because of the excellent community and ability to tweak to my liking.

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

-- Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX! — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:24:03 -0000

Greetings,
I'm self-hosted on Wordpress (Akismet pwns!), but let me explain (for those who don't already know) why hosted Wordpress can't allow Javascript.

Blogs are served from {name}.wordpress.com. The Wordpress cookie is delivered to any site that ends in wordpress.com. Any Javascript on the page is legitimately allowed to look up cookies that would be sent to the domain it's served from.

This means that if you can run Javascript on a hosted Wordpress page, you can retrieve the login cookie from another Wordpress user, and then pass it to an external site. (Generally by creating an image reference that includes the encoded login cookie.)

This is just a basic part of the underlying technology of the web browser, and it's required for sites like gmail, Yahoo!, and others to operate.

There are ways a site can avoid this problem (generally by constantly changing the login cookie data with EVERY response, and invalidating the old ones immediately), but they require more horsepower on the backend than the blogging sites are really able to provide, and there's still usually a small window of opportunity.

This is why Livejournal, Wordpress, and most other hosted sites disallow Javascript on their pages.

I hope that helps!

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

Hank Wallace — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:57:17 -0000

Robert, I just started blogging and looked at Blogger and Windows Live Spaces in addition to Wordpress. Currently, Wordpress wins for me.

My goal is to create a "personal" portal with things like my recommended book and tools list in addition to my blog. Windows Live Spaces has a number of components that I liked initially, but the customize limitations did them in. I also dislike the web parts that cannot be removed.

Now, like you, I am searching for additional components for Wordpress.

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

mksucks — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:55:45 -0000

Hey Scob - I think I sneaked past you once for a couple of hours. So if you write about something as funny as why Mary Kay Sucks, it's possible to beat you. If only for a fleeting moment!

MKS
http://marykaysucks.wordpre...

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

axewielderx — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:34:17 -0000

Guess, I will never be #1 then since you have to go to space to do it. That is actually a good thing though.Less pressure on the bottom!

AXE

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

drmike — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:47:57 -0000

I just think you'll a bunch of nuts. :)

And Scoble isn't #1 every day.

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

Russ Henry — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:31:19 -0000

I know this is off topic.
Please keep your text width. If not please add a function when the window is sized down you do not have to scroll to read (left to right) .
The reason I am asking is so I can watch your videos in another window while reading your text. It is easy to stop reading once a jewel pops up in the videos.
Blogg blogg blogg ...jewel... blogg blogg blogg. etc.

I wish channel 10 followed your video format. You can not jump ahead when you hit a blah blah spot in the video. Makes content searching harder. This feature is good for long tech content videos.

Just a thought!

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

theschwartz — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:53:11 -0000

Yeah, I have to agree. I started my blog a couple months ago on Wordpress cause you did, and I figured you knew what you were doing. :D Love it. My only open question really is about customization - I can write my own code - but it's not a huge priority. I once bought a car without sitting in it based on Consumer Reports reviews, too. Loved it. :D

Re: How to beat Scoble on WordPress.com

James F — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:28:23 -0000

Very interesting information.