Further to my previous post, I sent a few queries to the ComputerWorld people regarding the disappearance of TechDispenser. Here is their reply:
“Sorry for the confusion, but Computerworld has decided to discontinue TechDispenser.com as a stand alone site. The ad network (IDG TechNetwork) is still alive and well, but the blog aggregation service at techdispenser.com [...]
The Background
First, the background to this rather unusual post. A few friends of mine, and a few visitors too, have asked me a question I found a little odd - “How to make a blog?”, and its slight variations, like “How to make a blog like yours”, etcetera.
Given the information driven world of today, I [...]
It is quite interesting. Wordpress, and the very basic RSS feed. Blogger, the most common blogging platform.
Add to it Technorati, which is (supposedly) the biggest and meanest blog indexing search of all.
But what do you get? A super bloated web feature that does not index your pages properly, frequently, or correctly. Guess what? I have [...]
All bloggers know (or should know) of Technorati. The famous, possibly the only really well known blog searcher.
Well, it seems that they are having problems now. Blogs are having indexing problems, pings are not working, and the site (at least here on my ISP and one or two others in Pakistan) loads only once in [...]
There are quite a few blog editors out there: some free, some not so. Recently, Microsoft Word 2007 has added rudimentary support for some blog hosts.
I just came upon this very interesting little free BlogDesk from blogdesk.org. This is my first post with it, hoping it comes out clean…
Update: It seems everything is good…
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