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Blog of design-loving, photo-taking, Mac-using, Christian molecular biologist and qualified geek.

Good Reasons To Blog

Not many non-bloggers get blogging. It’s becoming more common now, non-bloggers loving and reading blogs: Scott McIntyre, for example. However, there’s a lot of people that give you a blank stare or a raised eyebrow when you say blogging is something that takes up some of your time… something you like to do… one of [...]

New blog: Haiku (aka Higherku)

I’ve just got the theme and a few posts up for my new blog, Haiku.

Do you want people to correct your mistakes?

I asked this question on Twitter and actually got several replies in the time it took me to get from home to uni! Call me lame, but I thought this was exciting.
Would you prefer to be told about weird grammatical mistakes on your blog? E.g. using the wrong preposition or missing out a word.

Multiple WordPress Blogs

So many multiple blog requests
There seems to be a lot of people wanting to know how to run multiple WordPress blogs. Some people want multiple blogs with one admin area, so it’s more convenient to post. Some people want multiple authors, each with their own blog. Some people want multiple blogs using the same database [...]

This isn’t a magazine: subscribing is free!

What does “subscribe” mean?
How to increase your blog subscription rate by 254% suggests you shouldn’t use the word “subscribe” to entice people towards your RSS feed.
Bloggers are used to the word and know what it means, especially when accompanied by an orange icon with two curves and a dot. How many other people understand it? [...]

 

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