by Rob Cottingham | Mar 27, 2006 | Technology
Early in your career using open-source tools, you’ll probably run up against the highly uneven quality and quantity of documentation. With nobody actually getting paid by the programmers to crank out user manuals and training material, the job falls to... by Rob Cottingham | Jan 28, 2006 | Blogging
If you’re being tortured by comment spam on your WordPress blog, have a look at Akismet, the plugin from the folks who brought you, well, WordPress. The secret sauce: cooperation. Akismet relies on clever folks like you and me to help teach it what is and... by Rob Cottingham | Jan 3, 2006 | Blogging, Communicating, Politics, Technology
Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz have been kind enough to run my audio comments in several editions of For Immediate Release, their outstanding podcast (subscription link) on the intersection of public relations and digital communications. Here’s a transcript of my... by Rob Cottingham | Dec 22, 2005 | Blogging, Technology
It’s shaping up to be a shiny, happy holiday for all the excited girls and boys of the blogospheriverse. the official release of version 2.0 of their blogging software. They were going to allow us to open our presents a little early, naughty devils, but more... by Rob Cottingham | Dec 19, 2005 | Blogging
If that blogging geek in the next cubicle over seems a little more jumpy than usual, it may be because she’s constantly checking to see if WordPress has released version 2.0 of their blogging software. News has reached the WordPress community that the release is...