Carnival Blog: Or I should have said “How to do a corporate blog, the right way”? The Carnival Blog, written by John and Heidi Heald (Carnival Cruise Director) is actually a lot of fun to read. It is very personal, very personable and reeks of the enthusiasm and the “fun times” that can be had aboard a Carnival Cruise Ship . The fun fact about this blog is that not only is it down to earth and chock full of John’s idiosyncrasies which make it a delicious read, it is also doing amazingly well in terms of traffic, readership and participation. The blog has attracted 600,000 visitors since its inception in March and continues to lead the WordPress.com viewer charts. Now in all fairness, I cannot see Michael Dell write about his trip to the local Sonoma winery in broken English, but the $64,000 trick is to engage your clientèle […]
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WeblogToolsCollection.com has vanished from the Technorati index. I have sent support emails and have received nothing more than the canned responses. This blog shows up fine in my watchlist and it is also displayed correctly under “My Blogs” on the homepage but that is where I lose it. The blog page says that it is not indexed and I have quit trying to fix it. This is one company I have a hard time figuring out. They seem to yo yo between very useful, fully in control of their fortunes and their company to down in the doldrum dumps with very little direction within the blink of an eye. I imagine the people that work there must also go through similar vacillations in their work lives and it must be very difficult to endure. I have had contact with many of the folks at Technorati over the years and all […]
[Continue Reading...]So after an email conversation with Tony, I was reading the Sphere blog this morning and noticed Matt giving Cisco, IBM and indeed the rest of the world a glimpse at the Super Secret WordPress Gangsign. Word! Thanks to Tony for the picture.
[Continue Reading...]The following are the results for the WordPress Plugin Competition, in reverse order. Consolation Prize The consolation prize winner is Ozh for Who Sees Ads. WhoSeesAds is a wonderfully useful plugin that lets WordPress users determine whe sees the ads on your blog. Ozh wins hosting from Pajama Mommy and a free 48″ wallhog from Wallhogs.com Third Prize The third prize winner is Keith Dsouza for WordPress Automatic Upgrade which lets you automatically upgrade WordPress from your admin interface with this Plugin. Keith wins a Baby Hosting Plan for 1 year (Valued at $134.40) from Hostgator, a copy of Translator Pro 5.0 and $200 in cash. Second Prize The second prize winner is Barry for MyDashboard. MyDashboard lets you customize your WordPress Dashboard with this plugin and lots of cool gadgets. This plugin also makes the Dashboard skinnable. Barry wins a Swamp Hosting Plan for 1 year (Valued at $194.40) […]
[Continue Reading...]WordPress as a resource and the talent and innovation of the people behind WordPress continues to amaze me even to this day. The two plugins I would like to feature today have been written out of necessity. One of them is far reaching with a large amount of resources behind it while the other is simpler, itch and scratch software. However, they are both very innovative, quite useful and made me go Hmmmmmm. Incidentally, Matt celebrated the second birthday of the inception of WordPress.com yesterday. Congratulations to him and his talented team for the phenomenal growth of their service and a sincere thanks for their work. The first plugin comes from Brian McConnell of Worldwide Lexicon. WWL is an open source project that creates collaborative translation tools for websites. WWL enables a website’s readers to translate posts (and edit/score translations) to any of the languages they speak. This is a […]
[Continue Reading...]WP Theme: Retro MacOS This theme is quite well made and nostalgic to me. So if you have used MacOS 6 in the past and remember what it used to look like (and how much better it was than anything else at that time), head over to Stuart’s blog and check out his Retro MacOS theme. Though this theme might not win awards for beauty, it is definitely unique and eye catching. Thanks for a trip down memory lane Stuart.
[Continue Reading...]Internet Commenter Business Meeting: (NSFW) Satire of commenting on the Internet. This video reminds me of why so many people (including me) have stopped reading Slashdot. It surprises me to read some of the inane comments left on TechCrunch before I realize that they are just spammers who are trying to make their comments look related to the topic at hand. However, I take the good with the bad. I love comments and I try to actively engage people to comment. To me an interactive blog is an active blog and an active blog is a useful blog and is more fun to read. For example, I like Jonathan Swartz’s Blog a lot more now that he allows people to post comments.
[Continue Reading...]I recently bought myself a Treo 755p with an unlimited data plan and had the itch again to resurrect my moblog. Since I had hacked up scripts in the past to be able to directly moblog to WordPress from SprintPCS phones, I thought about recurrecting them again. However, I also had purchased a Flickr Pro account a couple of months ago and I figured that I would look into Flickr before I went any further. Sure enough, Flickr had something in place already, though the instructions were a little scattered and hard to find. So here is what I used: Flickr account Latest WordPress code on a blog that is setup already Camera phone with data plan (Sprint in my case) Steps to setup your moblog: Visit your Flickr account, log in. Sign up for a free account if you do not have one. Visit http://www.flickr.com/blogs.gne and setup your blog. […]
[Continue Reading...]OneClick Install Firefox Extension: Anirudh had written the OneClick Plugin for WordPress that allows a user to upload and install themes and Plugins to their WordPress blog with one click. But to make his plugin more useful and extensible, he has realsed a Firefox Extension for it as well. The Firefox Extension adds a contextual menu item to your Firefox that will let you directly install plugins and themes from their zip download locations. Just right click on the download link for a plugin for theme and install it on your blog with One Click. Thanks to Digital Inspiration for pointing out the extension.
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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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