Wishing a very happy Mother’s Day to all my special mommy Blokesters and to those women bloggers who really do make the blogosphere go round. Have a wonderful day! *An importance Notice from Blog Bloke: The address for this newsfeed has been changed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogbloke . Please make a note of it and re-subscribe today. Thank you for [...]

Hi there Blokesters.   I’m considering re-branding this blog to include topics such as the social networking phenomena. Although I’ve already discussed topics like this in previous posts, I intend to focus even more on emerging technologies and how it will affect blogging as we now know it. I will continue to publish “Blog Tips” but in order to disassociate myself from the sploggers [...]

Rolling Out New Features for the Re-Launch of Blog Bloke dot com:  While I’ve been taking a break from blogging I’ve been asking myself what really differentiates Blog Bloke from the rest of the crowd? You might recall I had lamented earlier that it’s getting harder every day to separate my blog from the pack. Besides writing more original content [...]

I’ve been a busy little boy refining the blog template and trying to make it more usable and look like a theme instead of just a hodge-podge of unrelated code. Recent changes that I’ve made to this site: 1. Fixed the post truncating problem thanks to help from Jason at Bluefur. 2. Removed some useless Wordpress plugins that I’ve been testing. 3. Moved the [...]

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been taking advantage of my hiatus from blogging to concentrate on finishing minor tweaks that were necessary to my template / theme. You might not have noticed, and although these changes may seem relatively minor they are in fact fundamentally important to the design. They were also more difficult to accomplish so [...]

Over the past few days I’ve been thinking seriously about what would happen if I really did quit Blogging. So I decided to have some fun with it. Heck, why should O.J. get all the attention? So far I’ve narrowed it down to these five options:

No wonder he’s been in such a good mood lately. I can smell the money all the way over here. I’ve noticed that lead problogger Darren Rowse is promoting his “Six Figure” Blogging course again. For a mere $325 you too can learn all of Darren’s secrets to blogging riches. Better act quickly while tickets are still available. But [...]

I’ve been dwelling a lot on this lately. So what do I do if I decide it’s time to quit blogging? My April Fool’s post yesterday was made in jest but I have to admit that I face my demons every day with temptations to quit, especially when comments are down like they have been. This past year I’ve also [...]

I’ll make this short and sweet because I don’t believe in long goodbyes. It’s been a great run but sooner or later all good things must come to an end. Yes it’s true. It’s the end of the line for Blog Bloke. Further to my rant the other day about the proliferation of social network sites hijacking the [...]

Social Networks are all the rage now. International corporate big-wigs smell the moola as they salivate over the success of MySpace. Then there was MyBlogLog, Blog Catalogue, Facebook, Mybook, Yourbook (I made those up) and these are only just a drop in the bucket. Mark my words. The way things are going it won't be long before we will all be writing our own blog epitaphs.

Of course the big news today is Wordpress 2.5 has just been released: WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and [...]

After my recent disaster from a trojan virus I’ve lost all of my draft posts that I was working on. STINK! So I need more ideas from y’all! Please let me know what you would like me to write about because once that alzheimer’s thing came into play I can’t read minds as well as I used to. Cheers! …BB Written by: [...]

Plagiarism has been an ongoing plight ever since the invention of the written word and the blogosphere is no exception. So today I will attempt to resolve this issue (hopefully) once and for all. Recently reader Jaffer asked the question: I think people do have trouble understanding “Original content”...

May the Lord bless you and keep you always. Written by: Blog Bloke Happy Easter and Passover Blokesters! Tags: blokesters, google Related posts Speed Bloke: The Week That Was (16) Myth Busters, Shattering 7 Blog Myths (10) Moving Blogger Over to Wordpress: The Good, Bad and the Ugly (109) Migrating-Redirecting Blogger to Wordpress: The Complete Guide! (61) Long Live the Blokester Network (14)

After my own recent disaster with a trojan horse virus it was time that I revisit the A B C's of internet security. Here is a complete overview of what you can do to improve your odds of not becoming another online statistic.

Just recently I was locked out of my Wordpress account because someone had tried to hack into it. I was a victim of an attempted blog hijacking (also called blogjacking) and they destroyed my computer in the process. I caught a virus from someone who emailed me a link to a malicious site injecting me with a trojan. Thanks, and it was from someone who knows me. How can I tell?...

Howdy Blokesters, The Bloke got in touch with me this morning and wants me to tell you that he’s been having some major issues with his computer lately. As of last night, it was attacked by a virus that destroyed all information on his hard-drive handicapping him from blogging for an uncertain period. I wish good luck [...]

Sorry Blokesters but I’ve been having some computer troubles and not able to publish for a few days. Anyhow that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. Windows XP decided to have a hissy fit and stopped working (again) for no apparent reason. No cryptic error messages to decipher, and I hadn’t installed anything recently that [...]

Blogging to Riches: Another sensationalistic headline a.k.a. copyblogger style to suck you in. Normally I would have just ignored a video like this had they not mentioned two things: 1. Writing Great Content - Content is King! Absolutely true and not enough time is spent on this topic. But what they conveniently forget to say is we should be writing “Original” content. This [...]

Better Late Then Never  As you know there’s no shortage of wannabee gurus out there vying to grab your ear. So-called blog experts only too happy to link-bait you with snappy titles luring you into their recycled lair of plagiarised content. Posts strewn with ads and superlative keywords guaranteed to make the search engines smile and the gullible traffic coming. WOW! [...]