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Blog comments 2.0

The world of blogging hasn't really changed over the last few years, and web users are blogging just as much as they always have. One thing that seems to have changed is comments.

A few years ago Disqus was started, this spawned a little change in commenting. Disqus centralised all comments off the blog and allowed visitors to log in to comment using services such as facebook and twitter.

My new blog

As you can see my blog looks a little different than normal. In fact it's very different than normal.

My old blog was running an out dated version of Drupal with many out dated modules. It also had a dodgy database where I had enabled and disabled modules without uninstalling them properly. This was causing 5 or 6 PHP errors on every page load. So I set to correct this and transfered all my blog posts to a new installation of Drupal using FeedAPI.

Blog to it - Alpha launch

I have been blogging about it for ages (well, a month) but today I launched the Alpha version of Blog to it.

I bet there are loads of bugs, since launch at 4pm GMT I have fixed three, but I want to get a real world view of how it is being used. I have loads of new features that I am developing for it which will come over time and be moulded to fit the usage.

Blog to it - What's next

Blog to it development seems to be getting to a point where I know what I am doing. I like to work in a way that I develop something to a point where I know what I am doing, then finalise how it should be done, then develop a prototype / beta.

Blog to it - Development

Blog to it - What is it?

Last week I came up with what I think is a great idea, I have Twittered a little bit about it and this has started questions on Skribit about what "Blog to it" is?

Why I am using Skribit

BlogUpp! Blog promotion

As you may or may not notice there is a new block on the site (bottom left). It is a new little widget from BlogUpp! to help blog promotion.

Here's how it works, after ending your URL on their site and adding their widget to you site an advert for your blog will appear on other BlogUpp! user's sites. Simple.

Lack of posts at Easter

It seems because I have had a week off work for Easter I haven't posted to my blog. I know it doesn't make sense. If I have a week off you would expect more posts than if I was at work, but whilst I am in work I find out about cool new stuff on the internet and when I am at home I end up sleeping and doing DIY.

Well it is now Easter day, so Happy Easter to all, and I hope to have some exciting posts soon.

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