I’ve been trying out a Firefox plugin for WordPress for the past few weeks. Created by Zemanta, it adds a few boxes to your WordPress blog’s Write panel in Admin – one for images and blog post links, another for keywords.

As you type in your WordPress Admin from your browser (it supports Firefox only), it monitors the text, and then goes out and gathers what it thinks is relevant information. It also scans your post, and suggests keywords for tagging.

At any point, you can add images from their …

This post is a first for me: I’m actually dictating it via Dragon Naturally Speaking (9.5) and having it put online using Microsoft Live Writer. Although I’m saving the detailed Live Writer review for the next issue (and the Dragon NS review was already done in December), I do find it a really slick combination for blogging quick & simple. Live Writer displays almost exactly how it will look on the website. Whether the combination means I’ll blog more is another matter – the one thing I can say for …

(Note: PHPExec2 is no longer being updated – see this post for details).

Although PHPExec is a handy plugin for easily adding PHP to posts and pages, it doesn’t seem to be updated anymore on the developer’s site, and doesn’t work for version 2 of WordPress.

So I’ve updated it here, and you can download PHPExec for WordPress 2 here. The same plugin works identically on WP 1.5.2 and 2.02.

One caveat – you need to turn off the WP2 HTML editor to edit code, and go back to …

Blogging to the Bank by Rob Benwell, is a new report on making money with blogs, primarily affiliate income.

Good news: it lists solid material. Bad news: the steps it discussed aren’t for everyone, and are not always applicable to WordPress users.

But he has condensed his tips into seven steps, and explains how to get going as simply as possible.

Using these tips, you’re on a step-by-step plan to generating income via blogging.

Is it worth it? Honestly, I’d have to say…