Blog Training and How-To Guide for Business Blogging

When you're a blog network editor in addition to a blogger, daily plans can change quickly.  Yesterday's blogging plans changed with the discovery that Akismet, our network spam filter, was suddenly and inexplicably marking virtually all comments - even legitimate ones - yes, even ones by you and me - as spam.  Not only that, but the junk comment pile grows by several thousand a day - so it's an awful thing to have to wade through the filth to get to the gems (i.e. genuine human comments).  Akismet is generally awesome - for some reason it's just been on the fritz now for a couple days.

So I spent some time yesterday wrapping my head around that problem.  Anyone have any suggestions?  We're trying to figure out if a captcha will work properly.  I've tried saving everyone's comments from the junk pile the best I could.

I did post to Business Blog Wire and here.  Left some emails unanswered.  Worked a few minutes on the Fortune 500 Blog Project.  Worked on a special urgent assignment for Know More Media (you'll see it in a week or two hopefully - something very cool).  Also figured out how to make a customized FeedBurner widget thingy ("FeedFlare") that we can put on all our blogs.  Gave several authors feedback.  Changed a few diapers.  (Hey, I'm a dad too.)

One of these days I really need to whip out Camtasia and show you all some screencasts of stuff.  Like what it looks like to just be a blogger for about 10 minutes - all the tab opening and closing, the mad typing, the split-second decisions.  It's like you get OCD and ADD and carpal tunnel and back pain and a headache all at once.  Sigh ...ain't it great to be a scatter-brained blogger? :)

So next week, lots of good posts coming up hopefully at this blog (as I follow myself around) and Business Blog Wire (F500BP, blogging tips, news, maybe some rants ... gotta get to those book reviews too), and also some way cool stuff from Know More Media coming soon.  Life will definitely stay busy!