This year the BlogHer Conference, that is being billed as a “Selfiebration,” returns to the place it all began 10 years ago in San Jose – Silicon Valley. So between now and the start of the conference I will be posting about various aspects of my journey with BlogHer since I joined the […]
Self-hosted Blog cPanel Security Tips
Yesterday I covered some basic security tips for WordPress blogs. Today I am covering some of the very basic things you can do to make your site or blog more secure cPanel, the panel through which you set up the basic self-hosting service particulars of your site. I am not a computer programmer or software […]
Is WordPress Security Oxymoronic?
Security again… sigh. I am trying to figure out how to ip deny certain ip addresses from visiting (read: hacking) my blog as a bit of preventive security. I spent a couple hours yesterday cutting and pasting ip addresses from my cpanel stat files into an excel spread sheet so I could easily cut and […]
How To Build A Following, Follow-Up
Followers, Followers, Who Has More Followers Sometimes this whole social media, I have so and so many followers and therefore what I say is valid is a bit hard to take. It is easy to get caught up in quantification, especially in the dominant linear thinking culture left over from the 20th Century. More is […]
Updates: Basics of How and Why to Do Blog Software Updates
So you think updating your blog means adding a new post? Well, you are only sort of accurate when you say this. Updating a blog through the regular addition of new posts is essential Today I updated the theme I use on Reason Creek. Why? Because a new version became available. How? More on that […]
Graphic for a Viral Shop-In
I created this image/graphic so I would have a badge to use on my blogging site in support of the Shop-In to thank J C Penney for keeping Ellen DeGeneres as their spokesperson and not caving in to small but loud protests about naming her their spokesperson. Also if you do participate this Sunday, […]