The1Qwerty

This week has been a rather successful one for me, quite a few comments.

Madhur took out top spot this week. Madhur blogs about lots of things, topics on blogging, gaming, and lots of other misc things.
I found that his post on 48 Blogging Mistakes To Learn From was quite a good post and I suggest you check it out.
Madhur also has a rather informal post on how you can speed up your Windows Vista computer with the use of a simple USB flash drive.

Rory had quite a few good gaming related posts during the week, this one in particular about playing Nintendo games in your browser, might appeal to you.

Aniela has some ahh good posts if your interested in the latest fashions. If that interests you check out their blog.

Scot Smith of Meridiancrest has a great post on To Blog or Not to Blog.

Sutto, on his blog has a rather interesting comic he has made. Check it out here and lets hope tomorrow is not like this for you.

Arpit, has a post on gaming the social website Digg.

Thats it for this week’s blogosphere in review. Want to be apart of the blogosphere week in review, all you have to do is get in the top commentators. The top commentator for the week will be the feature of the blogosphere week in review.

Also I am cutting back the top commentators list to the top 4. So you better get commenting.

Ok after I was looking through my comments I noticed a few people that must have it in for me. Because they posted with my username Qwerty_ on the review of James Gill’s blog.

The things were not posted by me you can tell as it is not even a link in the username. Check the comments out at the post.

My questions is can I disable the username Qwerty_, Qwerty etc so people cannot comment with this user name? so future things like this will not take place.

Thanks for your help. James I hope the comments did not offend you or anyone else and again they were not made by me.

[Update]

Yes you are able to block user names as well as e-mails from within wordpress, you can do so within the options-> discussion menu. Picture below.

I have blacklisted the user names Qwerty_, Qwerty and Q@the1qwerty.com so hopefully this problem will not take place again, blacklisting them automatically sends them to Akismet classified as spam.

Discussion menu is where you need to go in options.

Add you blacklistings in there.

Hope that helps everyone out.

Sorry for the lack of posts this week, I’ve been very busy with school work not to mention a few days when there was database issues and I was not able to access the site at all. Hopefull the database issues are all sorted now and those problems will not persist. This week will be pretty much the same slow on the posts coming through as I have quite a few assignments on the go and tests this week.
The bright side is things should return to normal next week and after that there will plenty of posts as I enter my holidays.

Now enough of whats going on, on my blog time for the blogosphere week in review.

This week the Gill’s where back up in top place equal with 3 posts each at the end of the week.

Chris Gill has changed his theme and I must say that it looks very nice, and original as I have not seen this theme used on any other blogs. Chris brings his readers the latest happenings in the blogging community, and has some great tips on content creation, useful wordpress plugins, Chris also looks into ways of generating a few $ from your blog and the general things that he finds interesting. He recently broke into the top 100k on Technorati which is a great achievement considering the fact that his blog is relatively new. Chris has got a great article on how to create and find content for your blog and a few wordpress plugins to help deal with SEO.

James has a blog that deals with general blogging things as well as the other things that he find interesting. Check out the full review that I gave of his blog (Sorry James don’t have the time right now to give a new small write up) This week James had several interesting posts.. 67 Versions of a 3d sphere A video about the evolution of gaming.

Dan1el has an interesting post on his views of Technorati.

Madhur Kapoor the term Wiki is now in the Oxford dictionary

If you would like to be in the Blogosphere week in review all you have to do is comment on my site. The top commentator for the week will be the feature of the article as James and Chris were.

I have had a lot of people frequent my site within the last few weeks and I thought that I would point out some of the posts that I think are rather good and worth you reading.

• Tremulous Review
• Wii Lan Adapter Review
• Wii Sports Boxing Headspin KO Video
• Wii Messenger Idea
• Wii Ranking System Idea Updated
• First Week With My Wii
• Stargate SG-1 Mii’s

Hope that you enjoy some of the older articles I have written.

I was rather surprised to see that neither Chris or James finished in top place this week on the top commentators list.

It was a new comer to commenting on my blog. Dan1el and he runs The Wrong Advices, which is quite contradictory as he has some fantastic articles on blogging. What is The Wrong Advices all about? Well it’s a blog (duh) about blogging and the other miscellaneous things that Dan finds interesting.
Here are some of his recent posts that I thought were rather informal:

• Web Fundamentals Bloggers Should Know About
• Simply Successful Secrets
• Blogging is harder than you think

Great posts well worth reading.

If you want to get a nice little paragraph about your blog all you have to do is be the top commentator at the end of the week. See my post about top commentators resetting weekly.

On to the other happenings in the blogosphere this week.

• Chris has found a nice video of a modded PS3 being used as a hotplate check it out.
• James has kicked off an awesome new phase of his site where he is making banners and logos for a very nice price. Plus if you make a blog entry about his services you get a free banner (I hope this counts although not technically a blog entry dedicated to it. ) Check James’s banner/logo services out.
• Pfadvice has a nice post on 10 Smart Ways To Save Money On Your Hobbies

Well I think that’s it for this weeks blogosphere week in review. Remeber your chances of getting one of your posts in the blogosphere week in review greatly increase if you comment as I nearly always check out the commentators site.

I have been experiencing some problems with setting top commentators to reset weekly. For the time being it is back to monthly until I can sort out his problem.

Anyone have any suggestions/know how to set it so weekly resets work, as it does not appear to be working properly at the moment.

[Update] I have installed the latest version of Top Commentators v1.03 and have set it so that comments reset every 7 days, hopefully this will in effect work how I want it to. I will keep you posted.

I am going to trial resetting the top commentators list every week. So if you want the free link back your going to have to comment more often

Also starting from now the top commentator at the end of the week will be featured in a “Blogosphere week in review” post that will take place every week. With the first one being posted at the end of this week (commencing 12 of March). What will you find in the Blogosphere week in review? Just the general happenings and cool things I found on other blogs throughout the week. The top commentator will get a nice paragraph with a few links within the week in review as a little incentive to leave comments here.

The Top Commentator for the week ending 11 March 2007 was:

Chris

Well the first phase of my Building A Community For The1Qwerty project was not as successful as I had hoped it would be. So I am going to continue the MyBlogLog link contest for the rest of the month. If you haven’t seen what I am talking about be sure to check the mybloglog contest post.

The first batch of links are ready to go and thanks very much to those who have participated so far:

• James Gill
• Chris Gill
• A Guide to a Not-So-Boring Life

If you are looking to get some link backs to your site then the mybloglog programme is exactly what you are looking for.

The1Qwerty is now also going to have a few topics relating to general blogging type things. But don’t worry if you come here for the latest news, and my views on the hot and the not so, games as that will still all be taking place don’t you worry at all.

Just thought I would give you guys all a heads up.

I am going to start and try to grow the community of my blog The1Qwerty and I have several methods in mind, that I will roll out over the comming months and weeks.

Just the other night I setup MyBlogLog so if you wish to join The1Qwerty community you can do so.

The first little thing I have in mind for helping to create a community for The1Qwerty, is to give a free linkback via a post on my blog to those people that sign up to The1Qwerty community at MyBloglog.

To be eligible for the free link back you must have joined The1Qwerty community by Friday the 9th of March 5PM (+9 UTC) the end of March 2007 and have left a comment below with the address to your site AND the title you wish to go with the link. Its that simple.