There is an ongoing argument about whether SEO is dead or not. Some even talk about SEO 2.0.
I don’t really care; I just want the Web to be easier to navigate and safer to use, and for this to happen we need to pay attention to Web standards.
If you’re a blogger, does the product you use measure up?
Mine does. Not only does it measure up, but Google likes it too.
Coincidence or not?
So what’s in search results for blogging software at Google?
James Farmer of Edublogs fame has suggested a WordCamp Melbourne for later this year – fantastic idea.
So let’s help him!!!
If you weren’t here (San Francisco) for WordCamp 07, you can watch videos of sessions on the WordCamp 07 schedule page by clicking on whatever topic takes your fancy.
Australia already has some really cool bloggers – how great would the speakers be?
James would be great…
Duncan of Blog Herald and b5media fame is close – ish…
Darren of ProBlogger fame lives in Melbourne and knows all about blog monetization.
Automattic‘s code bloke Alex is in Melbourne…
Lorelle, sadly is here, but there has GOT to be a way to get her DownUnder…
Dr. Ron should share his WordPress experience (1 min 17 secs) setting up a WordPress blog :-p
Tech Talk should will promote it. 
Check out the WordCamp 07 Photos on Flickr.
If you want statistical information about your blog, for a period earlier than WordPress provide under “Blog Stats” all you need to do is add “&enddate=07-06-01” [year, month, day] (without quotation marks) to the URL. This only works on the “Top Posts” page.
Although WordPress.com offers statistics to bloggers on their “Blog Stats” page, mostly you are only offered information for the past week. The one aberration is the “Top Posts” page that shows stats for the previous 30 days.
It is here that you can manipulate the URL to access data for an earlier period of time.
If I go click on the “Top Posts” link on my “Blog Stats” page, and view the summary for the past 30 days, I get this information:
However, if I want to look at my top posts, and how many times they were accessed for the 30 days preceding April 1, 2007, I type “&enddate=07-04-01” (without the quotation marks) at the end of the URL – and – voila!
If you are interested, WordPress.com has more information about statistics in their FAQ’s:
WordCamp 2007 is now over {sad face}, but I just wanted to say thank you to Matt, Maia, Team Automattic, all the brilliant speakers, and all of the WordCamp sponsors: Layered Technologies, mediatemple, DreamHost, and ServerBeach – for giving us a chance to learn all things WordPress – all in the spirit of the open source community. Who else would give you two days for $25….?!
Much has been written about the conference so I won’t add more, but here are the links to what some of the speakers had to say after the event (in order of speaking):
Saturday July 21, 2007
by Dan Kuykendall, speaking on podcasting, and author of PodPress,
by John Dvorak, speaking on journalism vs. blogging with Om Malik
by WordPress Guru Lorelle VanFossen, speaking on “Kicking Ass Content Connections”
* Lorelle has put her Kicking Ass Content Connections presentation online for anyone who wants to learn more…
by Jeremy Wright, speaking on Blog Monetization
* Jeremy has included his powerpoint deck on his post
by Lloyd Budd, and
by Mark Jaquith,
who spoke about “Getting involved with WordPress”
* Robert has not posted (yet ) his WordCamp experience, but you can read his intro – Designing the obvious at WordCamp 2007 on his site.
by Matt Cutts - not really a response to WordCamp, but part of his WordCamp 2007 presentation “Whitehat SEO Tips for bloggers.”
Sunday – July 22, 2007
by Matt Mullenweg and
by Barry Abrahamson, who spoke about “HyperDB and High Performance WordPress”
* Matt and Barry’s High performance WordPress presentation is available on Slideshare
by Jeremy Zilar who spoke about – “Blogs at the New York Times“ - stuff that he has done to get NYT blogs to where they are.
has yet to post anything re WordCamp 2007, but keep watching her blog, she just might! Rashmi spoke about ”Designing Massively Multiplayer Social Systems”
Andy sang at WordCamp 2007 – if anyone has video – please let me know – not happy I didn’t film it…. Thanks
spoke about the “Past, present, and future of Web publishing” but has not (yet) posted any comment on his blog about WordCamp – I’m hoping he will soon, because his perception of this world is too interesting to keep private … so please hurry Mr. Winer.
* I have an audio recording of his presentation which I will upload soon – stay tuned!
by Liz Danzico, of Happy Cog who spoke about Usability Analysis of WordPress (who, by the way, should add WordPress to their list of clients
Matt on “The State of the Word” – details, details, please….
Developer Duke Out - waiting….
Photos available at Flickr – WordCamp 2007 photos
Videos are available at Viddler – WordCamp 2007 videos
Also, sorry for the delay in posting – am on vacation with my little people and the MOTH - (WordPress fans too) in Cancun – Internet access not so great….
Before you begin your online publishing project, one decision you need to make is whether to publish a blog or a Web site.
Web sites have static pages; this means your home (front) page remains the same every time someone visits, as does the rest of the site.
Blogs are mini Web sites with one major difference; the home page will change every time you add content. Appearing in reverse chronological order, your most recent entry is seen at the top of the home page, older entries run below that.
Technorati is now tracking in excess of 91 million blogs, and increasingly blogs are becoming more accepted as a way to establish an online presence.
On WordPress.com, when it comes to blogs vs. Web sites, everything else is pretty much the same:
