This morning I found a great article over at mashable regarding the new API LinkedIn is working on to allow for the development of user applications. I was keen to jump in with a comment, so I started typing away and after three paragraphs, hit submit and waited for the confirmation.

But instead of seeing my comment appear on the story, I was taken to a lengthy page requesting information for my new “user account”. Why on earth do I need a user account to comment? I don’t want, nor do I feel the necessity to have an account on a blog that I read everyday and do just fine without one. Continue Reading

It’s always a good idea to try and add fresh content to your blog on a daily basis. But, admittedly, this can sometimes be impossible considering the amount of time it can take to create an original, well thought out post.

If you’re a WordPress user this can be much easier thanks to a feature that allows you to publish a post today and schedule it to actually post to your blog tomorrow or next week or next month.

How can this be useful? Well, let’s say you’ve had something on your mind for a couple of days and you’ve been meaning to blog about it, but it’s specific to a day (tax vote, Holiday, etc) and you just can’t find time during the week to write it out. Using the feature provided by Wordpress, you can write this post during the weekend or on an evening when you have some time, and the post will auto-publish at the time and date you set for it. Continue Reading