Archive for December, 2005

December 30th, 2005

For those who are not completely happy with the usability or the look and feel of the back office in their blog, there are a few plugins around, compatible with or made for Wordpress 2.0, that rework or enhance the admin area. I’ll name :

Paged Comment Editing
By default, “Manage Comments” only list the 20 last comments. What if you were on offline holidays for a month and have a blog that receives quite a few feedback ? This plugin allows browsing of older comments with paging through them.
Cat 2 Tag
If you create a lot of categories, this plugin makes selection easier when writing a post : a handy “tag cloud” avoids cumbersome scrolling through a long category list. There is also a fancy “suggest category” feature that proposes categories as you type them.
Wordpress Admin Drop Down Menu
The lazy and the productive will love it : you can go from any [...]

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Blogging Wishlist for 2006

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Mark Ghosh

December 30th, 2005

General

Yes, I lifted the idea from another blog since their focus was somewhere else.
Here is my blogging wishlist for 2006. Tell us what you wish for or trackback this post from your blog.

Since this is going to be the year of the aggregator (FeedDemon, Dave Winer’s effort, MSN, Google … ) I would like to find, try and settle on (maybe pay a small monthly fee) an aggregator that makes me feel as much at home as the Wordpress Write page.

I would like to see the search engines treat splogs worse. Period.

In addition, I would like to see the blogging world treat plagiarism with scorn. I would like to have more transparency and less dishonesty in popular “moneymaking” content. Search engines could also play an important role in this.

Since blogging is already popular, I would like to see corporations using existing blogs to leverage sales and tweak their offerings [...]

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WP Theme: SAartsEmerging

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Mark Ghosh

December 29th, 2005

LinkyLoo, WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

WP Theme: SAartsEmerging2 column, artsy theme. WordPress 2.0 Compatible, customizable through included p-shop file, CSS and XHTML valid.

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How Big A Problem Is Blog Plagiarism?

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Mark Ghosh

December 28th, 2005

Blogging News, Business of Blogging

How Big A Problem Is Blog Plagiarism? I have written about this in the past and used to have very strong views about it. In the past couple of weeks I have been alerted by readers and friends of quite a few other blogs that are copying my content (among others) and publishing it as their own. The number is surprisingly large. I stand on the fence on this issue. I love this comment on the Techdirt article. I came here from memeorandum, which is another site profitting from your content. That’s how the blogosphere works. I think our view of IP in the blog world will have to go through some major upheaval (like Om’s discussion) and might even need a few big lawsuits before bloggers know how far they can go without getting making people angry.

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Read Most of O’Reilly’s Hacks Books for Free Using Google

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Mark Ghosh

December 28th, 2005

LinkyLoo

Read Most of O’Reilly’s Hacks Books for Free Using Google: This tutorial is sure to make Google and O’Reilly quite unhappy.

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Wordpress 2.0 Released!!

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Mark Ghosh

December 26th, 2005

General

As of this post, Wordpress 2.0 is out. Go get it!
PS: Check out the new site design while you are at it!

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WordPress Ajax Commenting Tutorial

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Mark Ghosh

December 26th, 2005

HOW-TO, LinkyLoo, WordPress Hack, WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

WordPress Ajax Commenting Tutorial: A well rounded tutorial for adding AJAX commenting to your Wordpress theme with examples from existing templates.

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The Top 10 interesting people in the Blogosphere in 2005

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Mark Ghosh

December 26th, 2005

Blogging News, LinkyLoo

The Top 10 interesting people in the Blogosphere in 2005: Interesting read, especially since Matt rises up and above all the others. Also of note is that blogging “networks” are dominating that list. Anyone read the Wired article on Jason? PS: Duncan, you need a better server!

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ajchat

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Mark Ghosh

December 26th, 2005

Cool Scripts, LinkyLoo

ajchat: AJAX chatrooms, create rooms on demand, share from a website, link from a blog. I hate iframes and really dislike those little “shoutbox” things, but thats a personal preference. I do like the IRC like instant chatrooms. I wonder if there are any plans to release the code? ajchat: Try out the weblogtoolscollection chat

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