Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

If you write a blog — especially if you write one as part of your business — you’ll want to know about a new duplicate content vulnerability in WordPress and Movable Type. No, this isn’t the same old vulnerability that first hit the news last year — this is a new one, and this time it’s a bug.

Over at our sister site BlogsInMind.com, new bloggers have been posting on topics ranging from how our minds can play tricks on us to the challenges of living with family members experiencing mental illness. Another has posted about embarking on a career in counselling, while others have just taken a moment to vent. Do you have your own blog yet?

Many thanks to Dr Gareth Furber, the creator of PsychSplash, for giving our new free blogging service a ’splash’ over at his site. Dr Furber highlighted the new site’s features and advertising model and commented on the potential of BlogsInMind.com as a journaling and therapeutic writing tool.

It’s pretty easy, if you use the new blogging service at our sister site BlogsInMind.com! As part of a revamp of our discussion forum, we’ve launched a new free platform for publishing blogs, including a revenue sharing system that lets you get paid for blogging.

Websites in China have long been required to be officially registered, but state authorities are now determined to bring blogs — plus forums, chat rooms, and other community type sites — under their direct control. Having just passed the annniversary of Tiananmen Square, this move acts as a stark reminder of the freedoms that remain unavailable in the world’s most populous country.