1. Comments saying "Nice post!" Nice post doesn't really mean nice post. It means the person had nothing to say but wants to get their link on your site. "Nice" isn't exactly a glowing reference, though, so maybe they were sincere. 2. Very few ...

When I first discovered blogging, a few of the people I knew at the time dismissed blogging as something for "people who have nothing much to say, but think they do". When I first discovered Twitter, I heard people referring to it as "a place for...

This has nothing to do with my usual posts at benbarden.com, but it's so silly, I couldn't help but point it out. The final story of Doctor Who with David Tennant as the Doctor was given the title, "The End of Time". However, for quite a while, it...

For a while now, I've mostly used TweetDeck to keep up with what's new on Twitter. When I first used TweetDeck, it was a long way ahead of the Twitter website, with plenty of new functionality. However, I've noticed that the gap between the two is...

Every time I get a spam comment on my blog, it usually goes into the spam queue. Occasionally it goes into the Pending queue. This doesn't mean it is a legitimate comment (although the spam queue doesn't guarantee it's spam, either). The issue is...

I've just released my fifth album of original music, entitled A Change of Scenery. The entire album is available to download or stream online. Is the Internet stifling new music? This seems like a good opportunity to comment on an article over at...