The Real Blogger Status

As we all join the global community of Blogger Following, we should bear in mind the old adage You are judged by who your friends are. In the case of Following You are judged by what blogs you follow. If bloggers can see you, they can see what blogs you Follow. And, they can see who Follows those blogs. Did I hear someone mention " Nineteen Eighty-Four "? So, it bears thinking that you might want to resist the temptation to Follow the kinky lifestyle or blatant abuse blogs, if you hope for a lot of friends at your church to Follow your blog. Similarly, folks who Follow kinky lifestyle or blatant abuse blogs might present a problem, if a lot of that type choose to Follow your blog. Remember, Following provides 2 way links, between the Followed and the Followers. Does anyone remember " Six Degrees Of Separation ", a few years ago? This blog should probably be hidden, using the Edit User Profile wizard "Select blogs to display" link. It's p...

Not everybody who produces a blog, and not even everybody who produces a blog and provides a feed, likes the caption / link at the bottom of the posts column Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) or Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Some folks think this feature makes the bottom of the posts look cluttered. Maybe they're right.

Recently, many bloggers, when loading the blog of their choice under some older versions of Internet Explorer, have been faced with a rather monolithic error Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://< Web site >.com. Operation aborted This error has been seen before - just last month, SiteMeter updated their script, and many blogs with SiteMeter code became unreadable. Right now, though, the culprit doesn't seem to be SiteMeter, though we can't tell for sure at the moment. Nitecruzr Dot Net does use SiteMeter, and it's apparently not affected by this problem. This won't make your readers very happy. As of March 2009, we are seeing some bloggers state that removing the recently updated Followers or Friend Connect gadgets resolved their issue. Of course, with Following / Friend Connect becoming an immensely popular accessory, this isn't a good long term strategy, but it may provide a way for you to at least diagnose your problem. Alt...