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How Would You Improve Your Blog Or Blogging?

By Andy Beard | Published: September 24, 2007

I have lots of things I am planning to change on this blog, with some extremely radical changes in look and feel, and changes to the overall linking structure. Those changes have really been waiting for Wordpress 2.3 because it just makes things a lot easier doing the work just once, however there are a few things I would like to highlight that I think people will appreciate, and even a few things that I have experimented with that have proven to be… an absolute failure.

This is actually part of a blog improvement meme just started by my long-time

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Could Just 1 Character Turn A 4 Day Old News Story Into A Front Page Digg?

By Andy Beard | Published: March 8, 2007

You would think it is impossible for one small detail to have a dramatic effect on whether a story is promoted on Digg. Here is how it happened, decide for yourself…

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Headline Formatting In Blogs

By Andy Beard | Published: December 9, 2006

When most people write content, they think about how that content looks in their WYSIWYG editor, and probably in their preview of page contents.
I am sure after publishing, they take a look at their published version of the content.

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    It seems to be one of the smartest ideas for a long time as a great way to consolidate 100s of affiliate programs under a single entity for promotion.

    It is also one of the best implementations of WordPress I have ever seen.
    It is not without its bugs, as this is effectively pre-launch. For example I just found a bug in the keyword based search RSS feeds (yes RSS feeds for any term will be hot), but it looks like they might be onto a winner.
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