When I read a post on Mashable about mismatched contextual advertisements in AdSense for Feeds, my first thought was “I should turn off AdSense for all my feeds”.

Upon closer inspection, I realised that the title is worded cleverly, but the post reveals it all. AdSense serves ads based on keywords and phrases analyzed on-page by its bot. Being a machine,

Back in April, I noted Akismet for its horrible drop in accuracy. I used Defensio for a month without any problems, moving back to Akismet only when Defensio servers were down and the plugin didn’t work.

However, I have been impressed Akismet’s recovery - very rarely (perhaps once a week) do I see spam comments getting through. Perhaps Auttomatic has got their lazy

It has been three months since I launched this blog with a quickly whipped-up theme, and a redesign has been on the cards. While the previous theme was acceptable, I didn’t really feel satisfied with it. The feed subscription area was in a mess, the sidebar was too cluttered and there was no space for ads (though I’m keeping this

They say: create quality content consistently. They would even go as far as to suggest that you should update your blog every day. I’m not really pointing anyone, but you know the usual suspects - Problogger, Daily Blog Tips, Blogging Tips etc. share the same view with regards to posting frequency.

I say:

In this guest post, Kyle Judkins from LostInTechnology discusses things he would have done differently in starting a blog.

Everyone has heard the old saying “Hindsight is 20/20″. Well, that has definitely been true when it comes to my blog and seeing the mistakes I made along the way. There are many things I would have done differently in starting a blog,