Category Blogging

Free Foaud. Saudis jail blogger

Saudi Arabia’s most popular blogger has been detained for “interrogation” after criticizing corruption and calling for reform on his blog. Condemnation of the arrest has been immediate and worldwide. You can track what’s happening both on Free Foaud and on…

Hoosgot: The Lazy Web

Hoosgot a used Nokia N810. (From Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati, comes Hoosgot. Put “hoosgot” (“who’s got”) in a blog post or Twitter tweet with your request. It’ll be posted on the Hoossgot blog with a link to contact you…

Some new tweaks here

Many of the categories have been converted to tags, and you can view the tag cloud in the left hand column, right above the new Category dropdown. Also, each post now lists the categories and tags clearly. For example, this…

Comment spam captcha

The deluge of comment spam on blogs mean spam killer plugins like Askimet will get false positives. When this happens, good comments get lost because there’s too many spam comments in the queue to go through all of them. (This…

Free stats for WordPress.org blogs

WordPress.com blogs have had free stats for a while. Now WordPress has made this available for self-hosted WordPress.org blogs. Just install the plugin and you’ll get stats on views, referrers, top posts, search engine phrases, outgoing clicks, and incoming links…