BLOGSAVVY

I think it’s time to hand over the reins of Blogsavvy to someone who can make a decent business out of it given that I’m pretty much flat out with Edublogs and Incsub stuff these days.

So, here’s your chance to get hold of not just a great established PR 5/6 ‘about blogs’ site that could easily be converted into a damn good publication with ads sorta thing, but also a business in it’s own right that’ll get you heaps of contacts for blog consultancy, development, design and whatever else you fancy.

Check out this Google for Blog Consultant, for example.. .not hard to get to number 1 again :)

Bidding starts at $5K and you can walk away with it today for $10K.

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Ladies and gents, for your blog communiuty pleasure, I give you Incsub, custom WordPress MultiUser blog communities and networks.

This is a joint project between Andrew Billits and myself and is, I guess, the natural addition to WPMUDEV Premium.

Now you don’t even have to worry about implementing our custom plugins and functionality, ‘cos you can get us to do it for you, warts and all.

Yep, that’s right, we’ll design, build, customise, support and even host your blog community or network… and we’ll do it damn well too thankyouverymuch.

Does this make us the first WPMU consultancy? I reckon it does (in a public sense at least).

Let us know what you think of the site and concept on our blog.

Oh, and tell all your friends :)

Find expert WordPress and WordPress MultiUser (WPMU) development and consulting at Incsub.

Ladies and Gents, we give you WPMUDEV Premium.

This is a joint project between Andrew Billits and myself that aims to find a way to provide complex custom plugins, materials, hacks and support for WordPress MultiUser (WPMU) for a fraction of the amount you’d have to pay a developer.

It’s already stuffed full of goodies; there’s the multi-database code that’s used on Edublogs (happily supporting 50,000 blogs on the one domain), mu-plugins to give you the lowdown on all your user activity (active users, posts, comments and more!), unbranded support videos for you to use on your WPMU site and a new bumper theme pack with uploadable headers a gogo.

And lots, lots, lots, more… which we’re going to be adding to all the time.

Plus there are comprehensive support forums to back up all of the code there.

Oh, and you can suggest projects that you’d like to see, and if they’re feasible we’ll look into developing them… not bad huh!

Sure, in an ideal world we’d like to be releasing all of this for free, but an *enormous* amount of time has gone into developing it and we’d like to get a system going whereby we can actually support ourselves (and eventually others?) in providing an equal amount of ongoing development and support… while being able to afford to eat.

So, here you have it… let us know what you think and, um, tell all your friends :D

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Well, here goes.

In my first ever post - four years ago this month - I wondered how I could provide this wonderful technology to teachers and learners. There was the visionary Manila (too hard - for me) and the ever present Blogger (too out of your control) but it wasn’t until WPMU came along that things started to click.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

However, there’s always been something missing from Edublogs - yes you can have student blogs at learnerblogs.org, uniblogs.org or eslblogs.org - but the problem with multi-user blogging is that it’s never been, well, multi-multi-user.

So - what now seems a loooong time ago I began work on what I present to you today, the ability for anyone to set-up, almost instantly their own fully featured educational blog hosting service, Edublogs in a box, Edublogs Premium.

And I have to say, I’m pretty excited :)

Each site has all the functionality - and a bit more (like complete privacy options) - that I have at Edublogs.

You can manage, create, design and run your own educational blogging site, fully hosted by us, for what I hope is a very very reasonable price (including free set-up to our first batch of clients too).

What’s even better in my book is that this will allow free education blogs at Edublogs to continue to grow and develop without advertising and with security. Schools and educators who want the extra functionality can grab themselves an Edublogs Premium account and this will support educators and schools who don’t need the full whack or can’t afford it.

Sounds pretty damn good to me.

I can’t begin to thank all of you who have used, promoted or supported first Incsub and then Edublogs down the track. Absolutely none of this would be possible without the plain bloody genius of Donncha O Caoimh, the selfless and brilliant members of the WPMU forums and the good folk at Automattic who have done so much to bring WPMU forward. To say I simply owe these people would be an enormous understatement!

So, here we go, wish me luck!

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Well, it’s not everyday you get a new blog, and certainly not everyday you get to run it on the biggest news and information site in your State, so I figured I may as well crow about it a bit and invite you over for a peek.

Basically it’s me making baby gazelle steps into writing about new media in the context of my job at theage.com.au.

The name is a play all sorts of things, I’ll get to that later, but you should expect some critical and overly opinionated commentary on blogs, citizen media, online news sites and more.

If you’re of that persuasion you can grab the feed here.

Today’s post is all about how comments are way too overrated in big news sites - especially as they are currently done. Go weigh in :)

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