In today’s world of intense message chaos, blogs provide an effective online channel for expression of voice and words. But, what are the rules, best practices and ethical boundaries in the vast blogosphere?
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders has made available online and for free download its “Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents.” It is the most credible [...]

Okay, now you have a blog.  How can you get it “seen” and tracked by search engines?  That’s a reasonable question, and here are some answers:

In the Wordpress control panel, click on Settings –> General –> Blog Title.  Make sure your blog’s title is entered.  That’s one of the first places a search engine will [...]

Web hosting services is how you get a blog (or Web site) online. They are the conduit to the Internet. Today, Web hosting has gotten very affordable inexpensive low cheap dirt cheap. For as low as $4.95 a month, you can sign-up with a first-rate Web hosting company and be online within minutes. [...]

I have a confession to make … I had been blogging for several years and was simply not aware of the special importance of permalinks. In fact, when I migrated my blogs over to Wordpress a couple of years ago, a friend pointed out that my blog permalinks were broken and, shhh … let [...]

How to get a custom, personalized blog site up and running with you in charge of your own domain … yourname.com or .net … that will support your business, your organization or yourself. What are the steps? What comes first?  And, how can you have your own blog on your own domain name [...]

As the digital revolution has evolved online, blogs are taking more of a role to express freedom of thought and voice. For example, human rights organizations occasionally support independent bloggers who target messages to people living under governments that restrict free flow of information and news. There’s one big problem, however. The ordinary people in [...]

This is a subject actively debated, and as someone who began blogging in 2003, I would like to provide some perspective.
Self-hosted means that you maintain independent control over your blog at through a server account at a hosting company rather than turning everything over to a free service.
I started blogging just before all the [...]

Wordpress is the world’s most popular and reliable software platform for self-hosted blogs.*
Think of Wordpress as the behind-the-scenes engine that makes it all possible to use a seemingly infinite choice of themes for sites and useful interactive tools, such as the ability to easily post new and timely information from any computer that’s online … [...]