I understand that a lot of sites are offering “blogging news” and are trying to gain popularity by capitulating in this niche market. Since I tend to keep track of a handful of blogging tools, I tend to find a lot of blogs that are blatantly copying the articles from another blog and passing them off as their own. Some of these blogs are adding attribution, but that is not enough. Let me elaborate a little. I come from a very strict educational background where any sort of plageurism is looked down upon with extreme disgust. Now that might not apply to the blogging world, but I still consider blatant disregard for intellectual property to be a major problem. In academia, usage of material from external sources is encouraged. There are however, very strict rules of identification of sources and proper punctuation of external information so as to designate their […]
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Archive for 2004
I hate excerpted RSS feeds. I inadvertently (through mostly my own doing) will subscribe to the excerpted feed rather than the encoded version and I will curse myself through the process of reading the news of these blogs. Imagine reading through Shakespeare without any punctuation. RSS, in my opinion, is already a pretty bland way to gather information and takes away from the experience of reading a blog. However (boy I like that word!) reading through, and making sense of articles that are devoid of any sort of indication of the content, is very confusing. Case in point. I was reading Jeremy’s feed this morning. Zawodny had written about RSS searches and Joseph Scott‘s recent views on the lack of good RSS search engines (which I had already read and commented on previously). However, without any links or any blockquotes being highlighted, this is what I read as the article […]
[Continue Reading...]coffee2code.com >> Plugin: Customizable Post Listings Display Recent Posts, Recently Commented Posts, Recently Modified Posts, and other post listings using the post information of your choosing in an easily customizable manner Very useful plugin which is an almalgamation of many previous plugins and hacks. This is for WordPress 1.2 Mingus.
[Continue Reading...]Nick Bradbury: What’s wrong with feed readers: Drawing the fine line between richness of features and usability of feed readers. Nick decides to concentrate on the user who is new to RSS and news while trying to keep the learning curve very shallow. In my opinion, this will attract more (new) users to his already wonderful product.
[Continue Reading...]noscope | About WordPress, Usability and Open Source Development: An angle on the problem with the WordPress Open Source project and a suggested solution. Very well fleshed out thoughts, most of which I agree with and believe that a lot of the suggestions are already implemented in the WordPress development process and might not be immiediately visible.
[Continue Reading...]RSS with CSS: Some nice instructions and success stories of sending CSS with your RSS feed. A word of warning (which is reverberated through the article as well) some readers such as FoF have bugs which prevent this from working properly.
[Continue Reading...]Share Your OPML: Top 100 Feeds: Which are the most subscribed feeds? To add to that list, look at the feeds of the most prolific subscribers? Worthy of note is that the most prolific subscriber has over 2400 feeds! Via: floating atoll
[Continue Reading...]geek ramblings >> Spammer Tar Pit: I like to call this the “PissOff” plugin. Dougal and I were discussing this yesterday while our respective weblogs were getting flooded with comments and he has come up with a really nice solution. This one stops flood spammers in their tracks. This plugin, used in conjunction with Kitten’s Spam Words will not only keep Spam from showing up on your blog, but will also prevent spam from even showing up on your moderation list. Basically, Dougal’s plugin uses a powerful regex (regular expressions) to check the referer IPs of people accessing your blog. The list he uses is derived from your own blog by matching the IP format against the list of moderation keys that have been added to your blog. If anyone from the moderated IPs tries to access anything, they are bogged down for a minute and then send the “Access […]
[Continue Reading...]wchulseiee.net AfterGlowTemplate: New two column wordpress 1.2 mingus template. Simple and visible layout with a black background. Caveat is that the default index.php cannot be used with this template.
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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