Marcin made this comment:

Now the thing is, does publicizing the number of subscribers you have improve subscriber numbers? My logic being: a visitor sees that there are quite a bit of people subscribed to a blog, it must be a good one, so they then subscribe to the feed.
Just wondering what your thoughts were on [...]

Developer-hosted blogs come in the form of Blogger and Livejournal. They allow you to setup an online blog in a matter of seconds (i.e. yourblogname.blogger.com).

User-hosted blogs utilise blogging software such as WordPress and Drupal and initial costs start from around $10. They generally require a little more effort to setup.

Usually, I like to be objective. [...]

BlogSecurity and hundreds of thousands of other blogs use the Feedburner service. A couple of weeks ago we released a vulnerability in Feedburner which allowed attackers to hijack your feed - this has since been resolved. Today, we will be discussing a hidden feature in the FeedCount service that may come in handy if your [...]

Why would hackers waste their time with my blog?

Sound familiar? Maybe your the person who said it. In 2006, problogger.net was hacked causing downtime. The attack was apparently for political reasons.

If I may, I will suggest some reasons why an attacker would be interested in gaining access to your blog regardless of your size or [...]

So you want to start a blog but are unsure how to go about it and many of us have been burnt making the wrong choices. So what exactly are we looking for when starting a weblog up and how can we prevent having to put an icepack on that finger after making the wrong [...]