Archive for July, 2006

7/31/2006 ↓

  • Copyscape: Website Plagiarism Search

    Copyscape: Website Plagiarism Search Definitely a double edged sword but an interesting twist nonetheless. Find websites and blogs that are copying/reblogging your content. Similar results can be had from blog search engines such as Technorati but Copyscape serves up the same dish with a different twist of lemon. (0)
  • WP Theme: Nearly-Sprung

    WP Theme: Nearly-Sprung Three column, fluid center, green and orange theme for Wordpress with a distinct Drupal feel. Modification of the origina l “Almost Spring” from Becca Wei. (0)

7/29/2006 ↓

7/28/2006 ↓

  • WP Plugin: hResume

    WP Plugin: hResume Display your resume on your Wordpress blog in the hResume microformat. (0)
  • WP Hack: AjaxWp

    WP Hack: AjaxWp Enhance and adorn your Wordpress blog with AJAX goodness. From the documentation that I could find on the site, it looks like AJAXWP will add AJAX functionality to your existing theme without any required modifications but you can get a lot more from the package by delving under the covers. The author’s blog is an example of AJAXWP’s capabilities. (3)
  • WP Theme : MistyLook

    Two Column, Widget-Ready MistyLook theme from wpthemes.info is released yesterday. Check it out ! (0)

7/27/2006 ↓

Machiavellian Blog Nomenclature 16comments

Author: Mark Ghosh Category: General

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I remember the good old days in college when I used to have to name my Powerbook 5300 just right to get on the top few of my dorm’s list of machines on the chooser (I forget the name of the chat application we used to use, had a little comic-like talk icon in the chooser). It was not uncommon for a computer to have many tildas and exclamations at the beginning of their name to get up on the top of the list. I even remember doctoring my ICQ username. I bring this up because I have come to the conclusion that blogs with names beginning with the first few letters of the alphabet, get more hits than the rest.

This completely unscientific and tin-foil-hat induced theorem is based on my personal experience with reading blogs on a feedreader. When I browse through my Bloglines feeds in the default view, I almost always lose interest by the time I reach the P’s. Sometimes when I am really bored, I will reach the Q’s, but it does not happen often. I looked at the first item on the last feed in my list and I noticed that I had not read that feed since I started to try out Bloglines some weeks ago. I am sure that many feed readers and bookmark generators actually sort feeds according to last update, but I am quite sure that there are quite a few that follow the alphabetical sort.

I will have to make a concerted effort to start at the bottom of the list once in a while. How often do you read all the feeds in your reader (or all the links in your reading list) ?

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7/26/2006 ↓

WP-Plugin: Bad Behavior Stats v2.1 0comments

I have just released the Bad Behavior Stats plugin v2.1

Updates in this release.

  • Link to Bad Behavior homepage fixed
  • Title attributes added to the BBStats and Bad Behavior Links
  • New variable %totalcount% added for displaying total number of access attempts if verbose logging is enabled.
  • Now, admin functions and wp-dash functions are only declared if on the admin page and if wp-dash is installed respectively, thereby saving on processing time.

Read more and download the plugin>>

  • WP Theme: yellowhite

    WP Theme: yellowhite Three column, ultra minimalist, yellow on white theme for Wordpress. (2)
  • WP Theme: Contempt Shadow

    WP Theme: Contempt Shadow Two column, rounded edge, white on dark modification of Kubrick for Wordpress. (1)
  • WP Plugin: Hot-or-Not

    WP Plugin: Hot-or-Not The Hot-Or-Not plugin displays a picture from the Hot Or Not website on your admin panel everytime you log in. Useful? Nah. Weird? maybe! (3)

7/25/2006 ↓

  • Restructured Blog?

    Restructured Blog? Very interesting set of links on how the present chronological structure of blogs might be robbing bloggers of valuable (and returning) readers. If you have not read of Chris Pearson yet or are not subscribed to his blog, here is your chance. Has anyone come up with a nuveau structured theme yet? (3)
  • WP Plugin: Extended Comment Options

    WP Plugin: Extended Comment Options Turn on and off trackbacks and comments on your Wordpress blog with complete abandon. Extra features include the ability to turn off comments for posts of your choice or a timeline of your choice. Thanks BloggingPro (0)
  • WP Theme: Techborg

    WP Theme: Techborg Interesting, multi-colored, two column, blocky theme for Wordpress with asides support and requires a few plugins for it to work properly. (0)

7/23/2006 ↓

  • WP Theme: Bosco

    WP Theme: Bosco Two column, rounded edge, blocky, shaded theme for Wordpress in red and gray. Reminds me of the old school HotScripts website. Thanks Wordpress Station (2)
  • Best blogs send audience away

    Best blogs send audience away Want to tick people off? Have your links open new windows. Have users click to a number of links on your blog so they now have 8 or 9 windows open. Make it difficult to browse because the back button can’t be used to browse because every link is a new window. You’ll have people unsubscribing from your blog in a New York minute. Thanks The Blogging Times (7)
  • Trac SpamFilter Plugin

    Trac SpamFilter Plugin Use regex, IP blacklisting and Akismet to manage the spam problem in your Trac projects. Looks like there are plans to include a Bayes filter as well. I have worked with SpamBayes in the past but have never had stellar luck with it. They would be better off developing a monolithic bayes class within the plugin/Trac framework. In other words, create a neural network based simple perceptron with a unipolar step function. Thanks Alex (0)
  • WP Theme: Nuberu

    WP Theme: Nuberu Three column, black on white, rounded edge, big heading theme for Wordpress with a Drupal feel. Lots of space for extra sidebar items. (0)
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