http://www.blog-relations.com We make blogs and Podcasts Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:47:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been having a quick play around with the new WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate.   It's mainly if not all about the user-interface, which has long needed tarting up.  And it's been worth the wait because it really is like having a new WordPress.  What I like best is the ability ... http://www.blog-relations.com/2008/03/19/wordpress-25/ Libsyn - the podcast hosting service - has a great new stats service. (Full pic size on Flickr.) http://www.blog-relations.com/2008/03/10/libsyn-new-stats/ I've spent the weekend coding up a new theme for Mallika's Quick Indian Cooking blog.   It was a bit of a team effort.  Mallika and her photographer husband Andy mocked up how they wanted it to look.  I did the CSS and put it all into WordPress (using the ultra ... http://www.blog-relations.com/2008/03/09/mallikas-new-look/ Welcome to my office. It's the lounge bar of the Metropole on Edgware Road. I come here to escape builders, 2-year-old son, and domestic mayhem. Quite frankly, some days it's the only way I can get anything done at all. The hotel wifi costs £40 a month, and that's ... http://www.blog-relations.com/2008/02/11/my-office/ I began the year with a TV appearance on behalf of Storynory, our podcast that offers free children's stories. Funnily enough I wasn't on CBBC - the kids' Channel - but CNBC - the Financial News Channel. I was there to talk about the 'The Trend to Free" ... http://www.blog-relations.com/2008/01/03/the-free-economy/ There is a lot of talk about search engine marketing these days - and that really means getting to the top of Google. It's a big topic - sometimes divided into two camps - White Hat and Black Hat. The goodies, who wear white hats, sleep with Google's Wemastmaster ... http://www.blog-relations.com/2007/12/13/be-a-useful-rescource-to-get-to-the-top/ I was just reading Search Engine Journal on how to make it in the SEO community. I don't particularly have any ambition here - I just want to optimize my own little corner of the internet. But I do think the tips are very useful for making it ... http://www.blog-relations.com/2007/11/12/how-to-make-a-nest-in-your-niche/ Alleluia ! Microsoft has seen the light ! The marketplace for its Zune Podcast player will list 1000 podcasts from November 13th. Podcasters will be able to submit their feeds from then on too. http://www.blog-relations.com/2007/11/07/zune-lists-podcasts/ My first impressions of WP-Super-Cache are that it's really worth taking the time to install if you are using WordPress. I've got it going on Storynory.com and the pages are loading like lightening. Apparently the excellent WP Cache was still using PHP resources, where the suped-up version is ... http://www.blog-relations.com/2007/11/06/suped-up-cache/ Talking of the jump in visitor stats at Storynory, I also wonder if the latest version of WordPress has helped the site's search optimisation. WordPress 3.0 has better enforcement of content generation on the fly, so that you don't get the same content on numerous different URLs. ... http://www.blog-relations.com/2007/11/01/wordpress-30-and-seo/ Hope you had a good Halloween, and weren't caught by too many spells, or kids pestering you for treats. Our kids podcast, Storynory, enjoyed a nice treat : a good jump in its visitor stats. A lot of it was search traffic coming into two Halloween stories, last year's, ... http://www.blog-relations.com/2007/11/01/holiday-stats/