After a brief sojorn with having my blog hosted by Tumblr, I have returned to hosting it myself using WordPress. Whilst I love the tools that Tumblr provides, I just found it all a bit too limiting.
Seeing some of the wonderful WordPress blogs written by folks that I met at BathCamp made me realise my folly.
So – back to ‘normal’ service – a new theme, the latest version of WP, and very little content 
I’ve just switched off the automatic posting of Twitter digests to this blog, and given my Tweets a nice little home in the sidebar. Seeing my blog fill up with posts called something like “Twitter Updates for 2008-04-03” and looking at the ramblings within made it look like I had abandoned it (I’ve just been having a break!).
So hopefully, back to the blogging, and let’s keep Twitter to one side 
I’m toying with the idea of extending my use of Twitter to cross post the titles and URLs of new posts on this blog (and others that I contribute to) as a kind of aggregator as well as micro-blogging platform. I’ll be using Alex King’s Twitter Tools WordPress plugin to to the job.
If all goes well, this will be posted to Twitter as well, and I’ll be geekily happy.
[Update] And lo, it worked, and I was happy.
I’m just testing out the Simple Tags WordPress Plugin as I would like to post content to my blogs remotely (such as from my mobile phone, from Flock, and from my Mac’s Dashboard), but still tag the content.
Simple Tags allows you to add tags in the body of a post, which will be imported when the post is published (look for the “Embedded Tags” option).
If there are tags attached to this post, it worked.
[tags]WordPress, plugins, tagging[/tags]
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I’ve noticed a new type of spam in the past month or so. Buried in the hundreds of spam comments left on this blog and the countless others that I look after I’ve noted that some of them are trackbacks containing excerpts of my own posts. They have often been subtlely changed by using synonyms to replace words. Very naughty.
The offending ‘splog’ will contain links to nefarious websites, of course. But this time they’re not just being annoying with comment spam, they’re stealing our content for profit.
And what platform are they using to do this? WordPress of course!
Lorelle has explained this all better than me, so head over to Lorelle on WordPress to read more.
And of course, they’re fooling/polluting search engines… When will it all end?!