Entries Tagged as ‘blogging’

15 June 2008

Amatomu

Amatomu’s move to new servers seems to be taking longer than expected, and now that it’s been gone for a couple of days, I realise how much I miss it.
There are other African blog aggregators like Afrigator, South African Blog Top Sites and Muti, but none of them seem to keep one in touch with [...]

24 May 2008

Best day ever!

Yesterday was the best day yet for visitors to this blog, so I thought it might be worth recording what they were looking at.

There is, of course a list of top posts in the sidebar, but that changes every day, and Amatomu provides some rather pretty statistics.
This time most of the popular posts for the [...]

12 May 2008

Blogger working again

On Sunday afternoon my access to Blogger blogs on Blogspot was restored, as mysteriously as it was removed.
I had already moved my family history blog to WordPress, but decided to leave my Notes from underground blog where it is for the time being, though if the access problem recurs I might move it over as [...]

10 May 2008

Blogger dead?

Following on my previous post, I’ve found I can post to my Blogger blogs, but can’t read them, and others appear to be having the same problem.
I wonder if ANYONE is able to read Blogger blogs — at least those hosted by Google at Blogspot.
I suspect not, because I tried to ping them on Amatomu, [...]

10 May 2008

End of the road for Blogger?

For more than a year now I’ve had a blog on Blogger and one on WordPress, and have posted about equally on both. I found it hard to decide which platform I preferred, but this just about clinches it.
Tried to log in to my Blogger blog a few minutes ago, and got this charming message:

We’re [...]

4 May 2008

Bloggers unite for human rights

On 15 May the usual crowd will be having a synchroblog on the theme of human rights, but this time we will be joining hundreds of other bloggers on the same theme. Obviously anyone is welcome to join, either in the synchroblog (which means having a list of links to other synchroblog posts) or to [...]

22 April 2008

WordPress beats Blogger?

This comparison has nothing to do with usability or features of the blogging software, but rather which one is more popular with readers. Over the last six months the number of people reading my Khanya blog (on WordPress) has risen, while the number reading my Notes from Underground blog (on Blogger) has remained static, or [...]

10 April 2008

Where do visitors to this blog come from?

It’s quite interesting to see where visitors come from:

Num
Perc.
Country Name

168
38.27%
United States

123
28.02%
South Africa

30
6.83%
United Kingdom

22
5.01%
Unknown
-

22
5.01%
Australia

14
3.19%
Mauritius

9
2.05%
Canada

6
1.37%
Germany

5
1.14%
Romania

4
0.91%
Netherlands

3
0.68%
Greece

3
0.68%
India

2
0.46%
Belgium

2
0.46%
France

2
0.46%
Italy

2
0.46%
Philippines

2
0.46%
New Zealand

2
0.46%
Singapore

2
0.46%
Indonesia

On a previous occasion there was a surprisingly high proportion of visitors from Muslim countries. This time what is surprising is the relatively high proportion from a small country like Mauritius.
What is also interesting is that this blog (Khanya) gets a much [...]

9 April 2008

My verbosity

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5 April 2008

Afrigator is one year old

Afrigator is one year old today.
Afrigator is a social media aggregator and directory built especially for African digital citizens who publish and consume content on the Web.
Whatever that means.
Mike Stopforth has asked “Submit your ideas on the 1 TH1NG you’d change if you were us, and stand to win R 1000!”
This is my submission, though [...]