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Archive for July, 2006

7/19/2006 ↓

Paying the top amateurs
Paying the top amateurs: - The Jason Calacanis is paying the top DIGG/REDDIT/Flickr/Newsvine users (or “$1,000 a month for doing what you’re already doing.”). Another link on bloggage for money draws some interesting conclusions on the incentive(s) for blogging and from the Pew Blogger Survey. (1)

7/18/2006 ↓

Cloaking to Stop Scraping
Cloaking to Stop Scraping How to cloak your blog content from known content theives. This is a little extreme but it did have very good results in this case. (2)

India Imposes Ban on Blogs? 14comments

Mark Ghosh

Business of Blogging, General

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India Imposes Ban on Blogs? I pose this link as a question because there seems to be a lot of misinformation surrounding this topic with no specific answer from the authorities. The various comments suggest that this ban might be sporadic at best though there definitely is a problem. If you are viewing this blog from India, what are your thoughts?

Can you visit the allegedly banned pages from your ISPs’ connection?

ban, Blogging, censorship, india

WP Theme: WP-Andreas01 1.3
WP Theme: WP-Andreas01 1.3 Sobre, yet different, organized and bold three column theme for Wordpress by the talented Andreas. (0)

7/17/2006 ↓

WP Plugin: Slug Trimmer
WP Plugin: Slug Trimmer Very interesting plugin that truncates long post slugs. I know that I have been guilty in the past of writing long slugs. I have got sick of URLs that end in really long post slugs that look-something-like-this-and-are-far-too-long so I wrote a little plugin that shortens post slugs more intelligently than simply truncating them. (0)
WP Theme: Unnamed One
WP Theme: Unnamed One Interesting three column theme for Wordpress with a Drupal like feel to it. (4)

7/16/2006 ↓

Alexaholic
Alexaholic: A sort of Google Fight but with Alexa. (1)
WP Theme: Black Kryptonite
WP Theme: Black Kryptonite Two column, light on dark, left sidebar theme for Wordpress with focus on standards compliance, speed and reability. (0)
WP Theme: Preow
WP Theme: Preow Two column, white on black border, rin-like header image theme for Wordpress that looks polished. Looks like the original came from SixShooterMedia where you can find a few more free, modern looking, standards compliant templates to be converted to Wordpress themes. (2)
WP Plugin: Limited Use Password
WP Plugin: Limited Use Password Send a “limited use” password to a password protected post on your Wordpress blog with this plugin without sharing the actual password. (0)

7/14/2006 ↓

Kubrick Glossy Header Images
Kubrick Glossy Header Images I like the blue one. (0)
WP Plugin: Image Gallery
WP Plugin: Image Gallery Simply build small galleries within your Wordpress posts from photographs uploaded to a folder on your server. Judging from the code, I assume GD is is needed, but is not mentioned in the author’s post. Example galleries here. (1)

Awesome Wordpress Tips 6comments

Mark Ghosh

WordPress, Wordpress Tips

Blogging is more fun when it is quick, painless and still creates satisfying results. I use quite a few browser and Wordpress tools and tricks to make life simpler. Some of these are built into Wordpress (and might be lesser known) while others I have developed out of necessity or as a learning challenge.

I often wonder if there are new ways to use old tools or new methods to make an old task simpler or more bearable. I have a feeling that most Wordpress bloggers have a few of these up their sleeve. But since these have become habits, they rarely get shared with others. I know that I would not sing the praises of “Press It” after using it constantly for four years, but maybe I should.

So if you are using Wordpress, look for the little “Press It” Bookmarklet at the bottom of the “Write Post” page. Drag it to your bookmarks toolbar (or links toolbar in IE) and give it a smallish name. Now when you are browsing a page which you would like to cite in a post, you can click this link and get a small popup with a link to that page, waiting for you to add your thoughts and hit “Publish”. You can also highlight a portion of that page before clicking that link and the content that you highlighted will be copied into the body of the post. I have grown so accustomed to this little bookmarklet that I feel lost when I am at a computer where I do not have it. Consequently, I end up being lazy and losing my train of thought.

So what are your favorite Wordpress shortcuts? What tool inside Wordpress makes your blogging life simpler?

Mouseover Transparent Dock
Mouseover Transparent Dock: Create a transparent (semi) dock-like menu on your page/blog with Javascript. I can see this becoming common on newer themes. Pretty cool if you are into this kind of thing. The only issue I see with this is that you have to let the user know that this exists, otherwise it would never occur to me know mouse over the header to get a new menu. Thanks Javascript Weblog (0)
Feed Collectors
Feed Collectors: From their about page … Feed Collectors is a new web tool that collects and socializes your feeds. So, it is a private Technorati of sorts? Thus the name Pulverati(look at the end of this post)? This is still in private beta but it sure would be an interesting way to skim hundreds of feeds to find clouds of information needed. Thanks to a link from Pulverati (0)