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PivotX blogging software

June 12, 2011 at 9:29 pm Leave a Comment
PivotX dashboard

I’ve been taking a look tonight at PivotX blogging software. It’s the successor of Pivot, which was a flatfile system I used here many years ago around 2002 before shifting to WordPress. PivotX is partly built with jQuery, Smarty, TinyMCE, PHP and MySQL. I’ve got no intention of abandoning WordPress, but it’s interesting to experiment with alternatives like sNews and PivotX. WordPress is such a large community now; there are so many themes and plugins to choose from. My first impressions of returning to PivotX are mostly positive.

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Micropayments for bloggers

March 13, 2010 at 6:42 pm 1 Comment
Cash for blogging

There has been a lot of discussion about newspapers charging for online content, but not much has been said about bloggers doing the same. A company called Fraxion Payments has now made it possible for bloggers to charge as little as one cent per article. “Creators of quality content can now charge for their work,” [...]

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Blog etiquette

January 10, 2010 at 2:12 pm 7 Comments

Is blogging a lost art? Has it been superseded by social media such as Facebook and Twitter? Do we only communicate now in 140-character snatches? I didn’t mean to start this post with such a complex series of questions. I really wanted to comment on comments etiquette. There are several blogs I read every few [...]

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Typepad microblog

November 18, 2009 at 7:34 pm Leave a Comment

Typepad is offering a free microblogging service. Sample at http://gorey.typepad.com. Tweet Pin It

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Gifted Web Writers

November 18, 2009 at 1:41 pm 2 Comments

I was invited earlier this month to join the Gifted Web Writers program. An unsolicited email on November 13 said my site had been discovered during a search “for high quality blogs and gifted web writers”. The writer referred to a specific post. “Michael, you definitely have a unique and interesting writing style and an [...]

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