Technical Oddities

For those of you who are interested in the technical details behind this blog, here they are.

Firstly, I run the entire site on WordPress which I have found to be rather reliable and trustworthy. I use their own self-hosted blog mechanism but am contemplating moving to my own domain and hosting mechanism soon. WordPress also gives me the benefit of their Akismet anti-spam technology which has been 100% effective against the problem. So far.

I use feedvalidator.org to verify and validate the RSS feed that this blog produces.

While I have more subscribers connected via e-mail rather than RSS, I use Google’s Feedburner for the e-mail delivery mechanism and that uses the RSS feed as it’s source. The feed is served in a number of ways and Feedage ensures its validity.
For copyright, always a problem on the Internet, I use MyFreeCopyright.com to prove that I genuinely am the creator and owner of the items that are published on this blog.  Having this service automatically run in the background means that I can rest assured that I have some legally binding evidence if I ever need something of the sort.

While it is simple to monitor subscribers via e-mail, feed subscribers are a little harder but I am trialling 5z5 and their services for this.