Archive for 2007

WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/20

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Add Alt adds empty alt attributes to the images in your WordPress posts that lacks one. Blog Voyeur lets you view what your readers are doing, how often they come back, and what they read. Category Description Editor helps you make nice category descriptions that appear at the top of each category page. CommentMailer helps you maintain the discussion on your blog by letting the commenters know that you have replied their comments on the comment section of your post. QuickRSS allows you insert an RSS feed into your post.

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Technorati Lacks Authority

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December 19th, 2007
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Those in the blogosphere will at one time or another hear of a service called Technorati. What is Technorati anyways? Technorati is a search engine for blogs that scours the web to try and tell you what’s being said about what and by whom. In order to tell which blogs are the more popular of the bunch, Technorati uses a ranking system that determines how many people have linked to a blog which is called (Authority) and how many people have added that blog to their Technorati favorites. BlogStorm has published an interesting post which clearly illustrates the need for a major overhaul of the Technorati ranking algorithm. In this article, BlogStorm describes four different blogs that have a high authority level and at times, a ranking of 1 within the Technorati ranks. Two of the blogs mentioned are authored by two of the biggest names in the WordPress arena, [...]

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RSS Feed Filter

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December 17th, 2007
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Blogging News, Cool Scripts

Filter My RSS is a very useful, simplistic service that allows you to create filtered feeds (from existing feeds) using keywords. I have used something of the same nature on various other services but this is a once stop shop and it is very easy to use. Also, considering the fact that the filtered feed URI can be hand crafted and the simplicity of the service, I am assuming that it can scale very well. This is a classic example of an itch scratch software that can be useful to others as well. Here is the WeblogToolsCollection.com default feed, filtered for the keyword WordPress.

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Top 10 Tips for .. Huh What?

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December 16th, 2007
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Top 10 Tips for New Bloggers From Original Blogger Jorn Barger: In many of my daily reads, I come upon an article or a link that makes me go Huh?!? “Original Blogger” Jorn Barger gives us his Top 10 Tips for new bloggers. Blogging has evolved a lot since he coined the term and intended it to be no more than a list of interesting links. Still, this post in Wired gives us an insight into what the original Weblog first was intended to be and prompted me to think about how it has evolved over the years. To me a blog is so many things at once that it is difficult to classify and the diversity of the term and the variety of purpose is what makes blogs so interesting to me. What is your blog to you? What purpose does it serve?

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Yahoo! Shortcuts Beta for WordPress

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December 13th, 2007
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Blogging News, LinkyLoo, WordPress Plugins

Yahoo! Shortcuts for WordPress is a plugin much like Adaptive Blue that allows you to automagically embed relevant links into your WordPress blog with information about terms on your blog posts. Information for the terms such as company names and tickers, locations, news and product names is determined by Yahoo! and in some cases, Yahoo! search is used to enhance the content. They have also published a tutorial to tweak the generated content. I like the ability to map a location and the ability to link to Flickr photos. Check out the full list of features and the download location here. Download Squad was unimpressed with the features of the plugin. Disclosure: Adaptive Blue is an advertiser on this blog.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 12/13

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Aspire is a beautiful 3-column theme with a stylish design. Black Line is a 3-column theme with minimalistic layout. Gone. Black Red is a 3-column theme with built-in Adsense readiness. DGA Design 02 is a 2-column theme with stylish footer background. Groucho is a 3-column with a very modern-looking design and built-in Flickr compatibility.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/13

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December 13th, 2007
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WordPress Plugins

Benjamin Sterling Galleries uses your current flickr and/or picasa web photo album, the power of WordPress and jQuery, and some jQuery gallery plugins to embed your photos into your site/post. WordPress Admin Reminder Plugin adds a reminder tip (in large red letters) in the top right corner of your WordPress admin pages.

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Ministério da Cultura

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December 12th, 2007
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Blogging News, LinkyLoo, WordPress

Ministério da Cultura: Brazilian Ministry of Culture uses WordPress to manage their site. I really like the way they have put together various features and plugins to make the site more usable. Since I was introduced to BRIC, I have started to notice how the BRIC countries have started to become more involved in online media and publication.

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The Next Social Network: WordPress

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December 12th, 2007
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Blogging News, brainstorming, LinkyLoo

The Next Social Network: WordPress Nice article on WordPress as the next Social Network with a look at blogs being more important than an integrated social networking space. I personally like blogs better than any of the other social networking tools that I use but they serve their own purpose. I would have to work harder to achieve the same results as LinkedIn if I were to use a blog for that purpose. I guess if I were to look for the next killer app, which these alpha users seem to be doing, I would be looking at blogs (and WordPress) as well.

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