Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Today is Australia Day, a national holiday celebrating our fine country, and an appropriate time for me to talk about a new community for Australian bloggers: Aussie Bloggers. (more…)

I’ve just read Michael Martine’s free ebook, How to Start a Business Blog.

I don’t buy ebooks. I normally don’t even read free ones. Mostly that’s because I don’t have much time. Its also because while most ebooks are decent, very few are great and some are just a waste of space.

How to Start a Business Blog is one of the few really worth reading. (more…)

It’s been almost two weeks since my last post. Here, I explain why and run through some of the other things that have been happening behind the scenes here at More Than Scratch The Surface. (more…)

Many bloggers have a blogroll to give some link love to the blogs they read regularly. I don’t – yet. I’m planning to create one and display 5 random links in my sidebar, but for the moment, here is a list of the blogs I read. (more…)

I’ve been upgrading the site to WordPress 2.3.1 over the last 24 hours, so you may have noticed some strange things – beyond the normal content. (more…)

Dane Morgan recently tagged me with the The Controversial Marketer’s Blog Meme, started by Sam Freedom’s Controversy Meme post. As Dane correctly predicted, I’m going to write an UnMeme instead of participating, as I have very limited time at the moment. (more…)

Most modern browsers can automatically detect feeds offered by websites with feed autodiscovery enabled. This makes it easier to subscribe to these sites. If your blog doesn’t have feed autodiscovery enabled already, you need to set it up. Why make it harder for people to subscribe to your site? (more…)

I recently applied to have More Than Scratch The Surface considered for the Top 100 Australian Blogs Index. I was pleasantly surprised when it entered the index at position 50! (more…)

Meg from Dipping Into The Blogpond recently tagged me with a meme, in her Media Snackers – What you talkin’ ’bout? post. I’m very grateful to Meg for thinking of me, but I’m going to be a little antisocial – instead of participating, I’m writing this UnMeme. (more…)

When I first started blogging, I wouldn’t have written a post about receiving an award from another blog. Back then, my plan was just to write original content. I saw memes, linkfests and awards as a distraction from that. (more…)