November 2009
1 post
“The lesson from gaming is that people won’t pay for content they can’t help...”
– The WoW Paywall: What Newspapers Can Learn From Orcs And Dwarves
October 2009
4 posts
“If a plugin requires you to edit your WordPress theme reconsider that plugin. Is...”
– Haven’t thought of that before actually
How To Protect Your WordPress Theme Against Upgrades
September 2009
8 posts
“When you see something that’s taking advantage of new technology to give people...”
– Did we ever pay for content?
“At the same time there is a small contingent of users who are very active....”
– New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org
August 2009
4 posts
“The minute you stop trying to keep up [with new social media apps], you open a...”
– Don’t Keep Up With Social Technology - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org
“Newspaper people see their articles as finished products of their work. Bloggers...”
– Product v. process journalism: The myth of perfection v. beta culture « BuzzMachine
July 2009
6 posts
Twitter vs Facebook: which is more effective for...
From Kristine Lowe:
“In contrast, many people joined the Facebook group she set up, but few seemed to do something actively after they joined.”
The culture of Facebook groups doesn’t invite participation. FB Groups have evolved into something that’s equal to signing a petition; you show your support and that’s generally accepted as being enough.
“Social media isn’t like old media. You don’t buy a newspaper ad and wait for the...”
– Identifying a social media workflow « P Morgan Brown
The beauty of Google Reader's follower feature
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve noticed that Google Reader has rolled out a feature that allow you to follow your friends in the RSS reader. Seing what items they share, which is kind of the ‘facebook like’ feature.
You have been able to subsscribe to shared items for a while, but this is much more intuitive and will probably encourage people to share more articles.
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“Before leaving a comment, you now have to go through a short and hopefully...”
– Just to clarify if anyone would be in doubt, this is never true. Registration is always a pain in the ass, too much research has proven this to be too bad….
Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG: Our shiny new comments system
Add support for Google Maps in WordPress Visual...
Have you ever pasted a Google Map into the HTML editor of WordPress, then gone back to the visual editor just to see it dissappear? Pretty annoying.
Here’s a a line of code that will stop that from happening. Simply paste it somewhere in your Theme Functions file (functions.php) in between the <?php and ?>.
Ionce got this solution from the WordPress support forums but...
A (complete) list of Ping services to add to your...
From: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/12/optimizing-wordpress-settings/
WORDPRESS: In the Settings –> Writing options page you can enter a list of Update services WordPress needs to ping when you write a new post. Here is a comprehensive list of services you can add there.
http://ping.amagle.com/ http://ping.bitacoras.com http://ping.blo.gs/ http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/...
June 2009
12 posts
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Is your Tumblr blog being indexed by search...
You might want to double check that your tumblr blog is being indexed by search engines. In the advanced theme settings, there are three checkboxes asking you if:
You want search engines to index your blog
You want to ping the blogosphere
You wan to be promotoed on Tumblr.com
I haven’t seen these before so I don’t know if they are new additions, all I know is that mine were...
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“This author [of Seesmic] argued that video conversations, at least in the way...”
– YouTube never seemed to have a problem with this?
So Much for Video Conversations: Seesmic Puts Its Video Service on Hold
“The key is to structure your site based on what your visitors want to do (and...”
– Services | Gavin Wray
“The [Eye-Fi] geotagging relies on Wifi signals, so it’s not as cool as it sounds...”
– PhotoWalkPro » Any Eye-Fi Users Out There?
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PostRank.com : identify the top posts from the...
For some time I have been a little behind in my google reader. I simply couldn’t keep up and found it harder and harder to filter out th emost important posts. Especially some of the heavy weight blogs like TechCrunch and Mashable, spits out a lot of posts every day.
Luckily @stef was able to point me towards postrank.com a service that analyses all the blog posts, and hold them up against...
6 (IMPORTANT) steps for easily upgrading your...
Neville Hobson provides 6 steps for easily upgrading your WordPress installation. With the new one click update function in the newer versions of WordPress, it might seem like an easy solution to update. But, it is actually a really good idea to follow these six steps. Especially backup your DB and disable all the plugins. If you do not disable the plugins and one of them are not compatible with...
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CSS Formatter and Optimiser/Optimizer (based on... →
CSS formatter to quickly optimize your CSS files to increase readability. The custom syntax I use:
<span class="at">|</span> <span class="format">{</span>|<span class="selector">|</span> <span class="format">{</span> | <span class="property">|</span><span class="value">|</span><span class="format">;</span>...
“It’s going to forums where people HATE you, and trying to help them, instead of...”
– A great definition of one of the most important elements of a community managers job.
A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
May 2009
21 posts
Exhibiting a website, without being boring
I’m attending a media exhibition as part of my university course and I’m showcasing the website I launched earlier this year, BirminghamRecycled.co.uk. I want to avoid the obvious way of having the website blown up on a projector, which would be extremely boring.
I have played around with a few ideas and in order to come up with something fun, I have made a list of things that could...
WatchTour of Talking Points Memo’s new offices (via Vimeo)
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“People might not necessarily want to be a journalist, but they might want to...”
– I wonder how big a percentage of journalism nowadays, fall under this category. Every blogger at least I assume?
AudioBoo / Paul Bradshaw At #jeecamp
WatchJeecamp, Kyle Macrae - LIVE at Bambuser.com
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“It’s not the ‘paper’ part of newspaper that’s the...”
– Amazon’s Kindle won’t save newspapers and it’s not meant to :: Shane Richmond