The Personal Site of Dan Masters

Category: Blogging

  • Blogging From a MacBook

    Call me a hypocrite – go ahead. But right now I am writing this post from a brand new MacBook. I have come a long from my post – I am not going to buy a Mac – back in April of last year. Why the change of heart? I…

  • Making Money From Blogging – Getting Started

    So you want to make money from blogging? Where do you start? With a blog of course. Unfortunately a lot of people want to jump into making money without getting the basics down first. But before you even get your blog you need to decide what you are going to…

  • Zookoda – Blog Email Subscriptions Done Right

    I do not if anyone noticed but I recently removed the email subscription box in my sidebar. The reason for it was that it felt a little dated and I am pretty sure most people were subscribing to my feed as opposed to wanting email updates. I pretty much thought…

  • WordPress 2.1 New Features

    I logged into my wordpress.com blog today (danmasters.wordpress.com) and noticed that the new blog entry page had a cool change to it. It had a “Compose” tab and an “HTML” tab. Clicking on either tab switches you between the rich text editor and the HTML views via Ajax. I had…

  • Internet Marketing Podcasts Available from MindComet

    I visited another one of MindComet’s site this morning which specifically provides marketing podcast. I listed to one of the podcasts that focused on generating revenue from RSS. As an avid blogger I was interested as I am always looking for new streams to generate revenue from my sites. The…

  • Better Adsense Results with Ontok Highlighter

    As I mention in this post – The Adsense Cleansing is Complete – I removed all of the Adsense from the template of my blog because it was ugly and really intrusive. Also I really was not making an money on it. Well the same day that I removed the…

  • WordPress SunFlower Theme – 500 Downloads in 2 Weeks

    Simply Amazing. The Custom WordPress Theme named Sunflower that I made for my wife’s blog has been downloaded over 500 times since it was released 2 weeks ago. This theme as you know is a rendition of my Beach House WordPress Theme that has been downloaded over 2000 times in…

  • Windows Live Writer Flickr Plug-in Test

    So there are already some plug-ins coming out which are nice. The Technorati plug-in moved the Live Writer to a state that I can use it now – which I will. This post though is to test this new Flickr plug-in.

  • Writely Starts Accepting User Registrations

    Writely has finally begun to accept new user registration. They had stopped accepting registrations shortly after being acquired by Google. As soon as I heard I signed up because I had heard that you could post to blogs from Writely so I want to try it out.