I admit it – I don’t tweet. And although I’ve asked around (and researched), I’ve yet to find a compelling business reason to tweet anytime soon.

To the uninitiated, Twitter is a site where people can post up to 140-character comments on what they are doing. Although that is over simplified, think about a friend wandering around with a phone telling you what he’s up to while he’s doing it, and you get the general idea. People drop in and subscribe to see what’s going on with a particular person …

If you have a theme that displays a copyright (and you should), one annoying problem occurs every year – the copyright date needs to be updated.

Start your blog in 2008 for example, and it needs to be changed to 2007-2008, and now 2007-2009.

Of course, for a “dead” blog this isn’t a problem – but for those of us blogging regularly, the copyright DOES change, and increases each year.

So how can you make it automatic?

Find the part of your theme that displays the copyright year, usually footer.php. …

The February 2009 Issue of ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’ is now ready.

Topics:

What’s New With ActiveBlogging.

Jazz Up Your Blogs With an Extra 1,000 Words – Adding Images to Your Posts Easily. Images add to blog posts – here’s a summary of easy (and legally safe) ways to improve your blog posts with artwork.

Free (And SAFE) Art You Can Use. Not all artwork online is safe – and a mistake can cost a blogger a great deal! Here’s a list of sites with images that can spice up a …

I’m rearranging some of my articles by date, and find going into editing each one a pain – so I decided to give Quick Edit a try. And if you haven’t used it, you should too – it’s a great time savings.

For those not familiar with it, Quick Edit is an option shown as you move a mouse over each post in the Posts; Edit Menu in Admin (the other options are Edit, Delete, and View). Clicking on Quick Edit gives you just about everything but the articles content, …

I was watching Craig Ferguson on Friday (who by the way does a hilarious imitation of Barbara Walters), and he was interviewing Rosie O’Donnell.

For those who don’t know, Rosie has had a blog (Rosie.com) since 2003 – long before many had even heard of blogs. It’s been the source of information on many of her life’s adventures – her magazine, her sexuality, her ‘The View’ trials, and so forth.

In the interview she mentions moving away from the personal blogging to more professional aspects – blogging about events and …