The Writer's Pulse

I get a lot of spam comments on this blog. Lucky for me, the awesome Wordpress plug-in Akismet catches and murders the vast majority of them before they get a chance to appear in an actual post. But that doesn't stop the spam-bots from trying. You have to...

Wordpress is one of the best blogging platforms you're likely to find. It's free, it's easy-to-use, it's incredibly customizable. Still, we don't all have the time or the motivation to design our own themes for Wordpress, so we rely on the skills of...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Image: felipe gabaldon"][/caption] Pillar posts have become quite the cliche out there in the blogosphere, and they're very easy to pick out: they'll be relatively long, informative, and more...

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Burma is the worst country in the world for bloggers: The government, which shut down the Internet altogether during a popular uprising in 2007, has the capability to monitor e-mail and other...

In How To Be A Blogger: Part I, I discussed the basics of starting a simple blog. For this post, we're going to take a look at the next logical step: finding a good web host and registering your own domain. The importance of a good foundation You...