Blogging

New Blog Readership Numbers from PEW Internet Study

New Blog Readership Numbers from PEW Internet Study
Pew Research Center for Internet has released some new numbers on blogging and blog readership using data of US based adults. To give you an example, only 11% on Internet users in US read blogs on a typical day while 42% claim to have read blogs at least once.

Errors in WordPress RSS Feeds Related to iPhone App

Errors in WordPress RSS Feeds Related to iPhone App
This morning I saw these strange strings (!$title$! & $!text$!) in the RSS feeds of popular sites like TechCrunch and Inside CBC. Just a wild guess but I think this bug is somewhere related to the iPhone App for WordPress that was also released yesterday.

Ego Surfing on Twitter: Know When People Tweet Your Blog Posts

Ego Surfing on Twitter: Know When People Tweet Your Blog Posts
Twitter provides an excellent search engine but the problem is that Twitter Search is pretty useless for ego surfing – that’s because all hyperlinks on Twitter are in the form of short URLs so you’ll never know if that TinyURL link is pointing to you or someone else’s blog.