Speaking of new sites at Ozblogistan, Dave Bath of Balneus fame has accepted my suggestion that he come over from Wordpress.com. He’s established The Wonkery, a site devoted to tracking and discussing reviews, inquiries and the like. His aim is to raise the level and quality of engagement by citizenry with these important instruments of […]
Ozblogistan is a one-man show, at the moment. I started it because I felt that an Australian-centric network of bloggers would be useful for newcomers, and because it would make it easier for everyone to earn a bit of pocket money from advertisers by aggregating page-selling power in one place.
So far I have been reluctant […]
Today I can officially welcome two glittering stars to the Ozblogistan firmament — Helen Dale, aka skepticlawer, and Legal Eagle, have decided to team up to establish a new blog to be hosted here at Ozblogistan.
This is very exciting — both of these ladies are excellent writers on a wide variety of topics with a […]
I got an IM from a friend complaining that he couldn’t reach his ozblogistan site. I jumped into an SSH window and discovered that the system load was well north of 50. In non-nerd terms, this translates as “very bad”.
The culprit is PHP. This service is set up with a division of labour between the […]
I spent most of a weekend getting Wordpress Mu (aka WPMU) up and running this site. It was a mixed experience.
WPMU is a modified version of Wordpress designed for hosting many blogs on a single server. It’s the software which drives the Wordpress.com service.
That’s the blurb, anyhow. As it turns out, Wordpress.com have a bunch […]