Continuous Learning

One of my current interests is “how to blog successfully”, and when I came across Hugh Hewitt’s book Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That’s Changing Your World, it inevitably peaked my interest, wanting to look for insights that can help me become a better blogger.

However, this is the wrong book for that - or rather, this is a prequel to the howto’s that I was wishing for.

Hewitt’s book is intended as a business justification for individuals and businesses that are still undecided on the virtue of blogging. He started the book by providing real world examples where the blogosphere generated impacts at national and world stages. That used to be the realm of influence for the Main Stream Media (MSM), but the toppling of Trent Lott and the Rathergate incident opened the door for the blogosphere as a legitimate alternative media outlet. Hewitt then further extrapolate the trend and Keep reading →

Blogging by email is an essential feature for me, and I am glad that WP supports this capability , by default.

My first setup involve the following steps:

1. Create an email account to receive the post.
2. Setup WP to access the account

It turns out that I was missing a couple more steps in order to get a useful Blogging By Email functionality… I ended up doing the following:

1. Create an email account to receive the post
2. Setup WP
3. Enable shell access
4. Enable crontab
5. Install Postie

Create an Email Account

When I first try to create an email account through DreamHost, it rejected my attempt and ask me to create a mailbox. My past experiences with creating an email account is that it also equates to having a mailbox created, but apparently not so in DreamHost’s tool. It took me a while to find the actual place for mailbox creation at - http://blog.dreamhosters.com/kbase/index.cgi?area=881 (excerpt below):