Local blog makes good: jkOnTheRun acquired by GigaOM
As a consulting geophysicist, James Kendrick’s job involved driving around Houston from client to client, and sometimes flying out of town. To stay in touch, he relied on mobile devices — notebook...
View ArticleWill your blog get noticed in the new Google Blog Search?
When you want to find out what hot topics bloggers are writing about, you have a few decent choices. If your niche is tech, the gold standard is Gabe Rivera’s TechMeme. It has some sister sites, as...
View ArticleAre blogs obsolete?
In a very odd essay in the latest issue of Wired magazine, a writer for the blog Valleywag urges other bloggers to kill their blogs. Hmmm. It appears that Paul Boutin hasn’t practiced what he preaches....
View ArticleOpen-comment Friday and Mom 2.0 Summit kickoff Tuesday
Here’s the moment you’ve been waiting for: Friday’s finally here, and with it our weekly open-comment thread. The drill: You leave a comment about anything personal-tech related, and I approve it. It’s...
View ArticleNew chron.com blog: App-a-Day, smartphone app reviews
For some time now, the cell phone has been a lot more than a simple device for speaking with others. In this decade, it’s morphed into an all-purpose communicator, and with the advance of smartphones,...
View ArticleWhat were your favorite TechBlog posts of 2008?
At the start of each year, journalists go through the annual ritual of selecting stories and blog posts to be submitted to the many contests that are out there. That time has come around again, but...
View ArticleLove your smartphone? Love apps? Blog in App-a-Day!
The best part of owning a smartphone is the "smart" part. With the right apps, a smartphone can do almost anything. But finding decent apps – and avoiding the nasty ones – is why we started the...
View ArticlePublishers demand more ‘Google Juice’
When you conduct a search on Google, the results you get are usually based on what the ecosystem of the Internet thinks is important. Results are determined based on a complex algorithm, but a heavy...
View ArticleMatt Mullenweg talks about blogging’s future, WordPress and Houston technology
By Purva Patel Houston native turned San Francisco resident Matt Mullenweg is often touted as a local success story by the city’s Web-technology enthusiasts. The 26-year old dropped out of the...
View ArticleComing soon to Chron.com: WordPress blogs!
At Chron.com, we’re proud of having been a pioneer in newspaper blogging. We started in 2004 in our standard Web content manager, and then set up a Movable Type 3 installation the following year. But...
View ArticleHouston-born WordPress turns 10 on Monday. It’s meetup time!
Ten years ago on Monday, Matt Mullenweg and Mark Little released the very first version of WordPress, the platform that today dominates blogging. Mullenweg was 19 years old at the time, and attending...
View ArticleGoogle wants to clean up Blogger’s act, bans sexually explicit content
Do you have a Blogger blog with content some would consider sexually explicit, or shows graphic nudity? If so, its days are numbered. In a major policy change, Google – which owns Blogger – says it...
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