Tag Archives: AOL Journals

Long-time readers know I hate double standards. Twenty years ago, the first blogging controversy I tackled involved a doozy.

This Wednesday — and every Aug. 5 — is Blogger Day. And by 'Blogger,' I don't mean a person who blogs. I mean that famous blogging platform Google now owns.

This week (on Friday, to be exact), this blog will reach its 16th anniversary. In some ways, it seems like just yesterday when I posted my first post.

If you're considering starting a blog (or moving an existing one), is WordPress really the only platform I think you...

My blog did not originate on WordPress but I knew when I started it that WordPress would likely be the right content management system for it.

I don't hear it as often these days as I used to, but I know there are still people who think social media blogging is full-fledged blogging. That's a problem.

Self-hosting gives you more control of your content, but it comes with a price. Literally. Here's how I came to...

One of the hot topics on the internet has been the Arianna Huffington's decision to sell her popular Huffington Post...

Patrick's Place hit a milestone overnight: the 8,500th comment reported by WordPress.   But there's a little catch, noted by the...

Almost three years ago, I registered the domain where you're reading this blog. Prior to that time, Patrick's Place existed...

A recent edition of the Patrick's Place Poll asked which blogging platform my readers preferred.  The top two platforms are...

When this blog began, more than five years ago now, back in AOL's J-Land, there wasn't a whole lot I...

I've gotten a few emails recently — I assumed they were spam — alerting me that someone wanted to friend...

My parents don't know a great deal about computers.   And like a lot of people who don't know a great...

I was browsing a few blogs at AOL while I still can; as of November 1st, AOL's J-Land will be...

Back in December of 2005, after nearly two years of blogging, I made a decision that got me in a...