Guest Writer or Guest Author

I am creating a new user in WordPress for guest articles and I'm torn between the above two names. As far as I am concern, the only subtle difference between an author and a writer is the former gets his work published and the latter does not.

I decide to check the number of search results in Google for both names:

"guest writer" : 5,010,000
"guest author" : 3,960,000

Intrigued, I decided to check on a few other terms as well:

"guest blogger" : 6,070,000
"guest post" : 14,000 000

Guest Blogger is definitely out as not everyone is a blogger. Guest writer is my pick.

800 FeedBurner subscribers

I reach the 800 figure mile stone today. It will be a tough struggle in the coming few weeks as I struggle to push further deeper into the 800 mark. Once that is achieve can I set my eyes on the magical 1,000.

Looking back, I didn't really do anything innovative just plain hard work - replying to interested guest writers and emailing my new new subscribers. Although not substantial, replying to all emails sent to you by interested parties does help to increase my readership by a little.

Lesson learn: don't neglect seemingly mundane and tedious tasks.

Drawing a divider line in WordPress

I was using a very tedious method of inserting an image of a divider line into my WordPress post until I found this site - http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/divider-lines/

Feeling really stupid but better late than never. I believe it should work for Blogger too. Try it out.

How to publish your google analaytics to public without plugins or third party apps?

I'm searching for a way to show my stats to potential advertisers and stake holders without the need for plugins or third party apps because I don't want to be at their mercy. Plugins and thrid party apps may require frequent updating if Goolge or Wordpress update their current version.

Gave up my search and decided to export my report in CSV format. Darn, the exported report doesn't show any charts and learning Google Chart Tools is too time consuming (another day perhaps). In the end, I took a screen  capture.

Do let me know how you can publish your Google analytics report without the need of plugins or third party apps.

Thanks.

Accumolo Wordpress Theme

Many moons ago before I engaged a design firm for my site, I was looking at various Wordpress aggregator themes. Accumolo was one of them and while reviewing my old notes, I took down some of the sites that was using the theme. It will be interesting to see how these sites are now.

1. MusicEdNews.com : This was the first site I want to learn from should I opt for the Accumolo theme. The webmaster has done a good job in improving it. With PR4, there could still be a thing or two to learn from.
2. pureitems.com : The site ceased to exist.
3. Grape Daily : PR0. I doubt there was any update on the site.
4. LakeMarySports.com: PR0. Like Grape Daily, there wasn't much updates.
5. Scrappy Marketing: PR2. I believe there was sporadic updates much like my site. 
6. IT Splat: PR1. Doesn't look at all like the usual Accumolo theme. Anyway, it has not been updated since last year.
7. Naijaweb: Doman name up for sale.
8. becomethemedia.com: Search results show becomethemedia.org and my browser warn that it is a malware site.
9. Thesis Buzz: Not sure why it is not using Thesis instead. Anyway, the site has ceased to exist.

Of the nine sites, only two are still being updated and they are still using the Accumolo theme, which speaks volume of its reliability.