InfoMusing

Monitoring Your Blog

One of the most frustrating events about running a blog, or any website, is when the site is not operating at 100%.  Kevin just posted a blog on Has BloggingTips been down for you in response to some to some feedback from some visitors who “commented that the site has been down for them at one point or another.”

It’s somewhat counter-intuitive, but it’s actually easier to solve a complete site outage than an intermittent outage.  If the server crashes or the telecommunications lines to your servers go down the result is that life sucks – but the resolution is pretty clear.  It’s clear and obvious how to resolve these disasters.

Read the full story at BloggingTips.

Feedly – Blog Reader or Magazine?

If you read a number of blogs, perhaps even too many blogs, then Feedly could be the best RSS blog reader for you.  Feedly weaves your favorite content into a fun, magazine-like start page. The only downside is that Feedly is built upon Google Reader and Firefox – you need both to play.  Feedly displays your Google Reader feeds in a magazine-like format, allowing you to browse over multiple categories, preview post pictures and all your read items are synchronized back to Google Reader.

Read the full review at BloggingTips.

Bing Materializes Quietly Against Wave Backdrop

Last Thursday, the technology world saw a demonstration of both approaches on the same day. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) took the innovative road by announcing Google Wave — an approach to online communication that does not fit neatly into any current classification. Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)’s announcement of Bing, in contrast, is a “new” approach to Web search.

Google had a live demo for thousands of developers; Microsoft had a flashy canned demo for hundreds of executives. No surprise which company won the social media battle — developers and the Web world fawned over Google Wave. Meanwhile, the most quoted comment about Bing was that it stands for “But It’s Not Google.”

Check out the entire blog at Internet Evolution.

Matt Cutts Speaks on WordPress and Google

WordCamp San Francisco is a conference organized by the creators of WordPress for their user community. It was just held last weekend, May 30 and 31, in San Francisco.  Highlighting the real time nature of the blogosphere, some of the presentations have already made their way onto the net.  So those of us who could not make it out to the West Coast of North America can get some of the benefits of this great event.

Attendees have been blogging and tweeting that one of the best presentations was by Matt Cutts who is the head of the webspam team at Google where he specializes in search engine optimization (SEO) issues. With a title like “Straight from Google: What You Need to Know” it’s no surprise that his session was well attended.  Getting your blog well ranked by Google is certainly among the top goals for any blogger.

Read the full story at Blogging Tips.

Web 2.0 – Celebrating Failure

Any IT staff person knows the strain and stress that occurs whenever an application or server bites the dust, locks up or otherwise goes down.  User’s scream!  Customers kvetch!  And amidst all the rabble rousing, the IT staff has to get their job done and resolve the issue. However, in the world of Web 2.0, some companies have figured out how to market even the most dire of circumstances.

Check out the full blog at Tech Owl.