The Google Reader recently started displaying the number of feed readers per feed in their reader interface. This count is of the number of people that read your blogs’ feed through various Google systems and NOT the total count of feed readers for your blog (as might be available through the Feedburner chicklet). You can log into Google Reader and type the feeds’ name into the “Add Subscription” form which essentially does a search for the feed name and provides you with the results. There has been some coverage of bloggers who have been looking at this “new” feature with rose colored glasses while others have been extremely critical of the numbers themselves and of Google displaying these numbers and the blogosphere seems to be somewhere in the middle. I am all in favor of stats. I know it is somewhat self serving and narcissistic even. But stats keep us […]
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Post to WordPress from Nokia Lifeblog: Phoneboy has updated his script to post to WordPress 2.3+ Blogs from Nokia Lifeblog and it now “theoretically supports posting videos” from your Nokia Lifeblog to a WordPress blog. This is a pretty cool idea and I wish there was something similar for Sprint phones.
[Continue Reading...]Vote for the Winner of the 2007 Blogging Scholarship: CollegeScholarships.org is entertaining votes for the 2007 round of its $10,000 blogging scholarships and the list of finalists is fantastic. There are some awesome blogs in there including a friend of mine, Paul Stamatiou. Now I will not be so bold as to ask you to vote for Paul, but since I am biased, I did vote for him. If you are looking for some good reading from some seriously talented and motivated young folks who blog, and help one of them win the $10,000 for school, this is the ticket.
[Continue Reading...]Answers.com and WordPress.com: If you own a WordPress.com blog, you can now embed links directly from Answers.com from within your editing interface with AnswerLink. Answers.com is an information and definition accumulation site that gets its information from places like Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, and the American Heritage Dictionary and they also provide the default definitions for Google.com in their searches. The interface and the underlying functionality was written by the inimitable Alex King and the interface is available through a small icon on the WordPress.com editing toolbar. Tony also links to a small how to on the Answers.com website. Hosted WordPress can also avail of AnswerLink with the AnswerLinks plugin that was also released by Alex.
[Continue Reading...]The Best WordPress Magazine Themes Available: Ryan puts together a list of ten magazine style WordPress themes and details the positives and negatives of each of these themes for this list. I am not sure if “The Best” is an appropriate title for the post but I like each and every theme that he points to. Some of the themes listed such as Brian Gardner’s Revolution are paid themes but Revolution is visually excellent and the popularity of the theme and the fact that he is successfully charging for it are both attestations to this model of theme publication. Definitely a post to check out if you are into smooth, clear and versatile themes that can pack a lot of good information into small screen spaces. While you are at it, check out Charity’s “Creating a Magazine Style Theme by Example“.
[Continue Reading...]Digg saturation: Patrick from Blogstorm came up with a way to rank websites using a Digg saturation value that he come up with by searching Google with a specific URI. Apparently Google really likes sites that are Dugg. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Adigg.com+weblogtoolscollection.com To check your own Digg saturation, just replace weblogtoolscollection.com above with your own blogs’ URI. What is your Digg saturation?
[Continue Reading...]Integrate Drupal with WordPress: These two competing platforms now have a common bond. This Drupal module will allow you to run/administer a WordPress blog from inside Drupal as a module. The author claims that the module is tested with Drupal 5 and WordPress 2.2.1. In looking through the code, I see no reason why it would not work with 2.3 but I have not tested it. So if you are a Drupal user with a WordPress blog or if you are a WordPress user with a Drupal installation, this is your chance to run the roost from one perch. Features include a single level sign on and synchronization of profile data between WordPress and Drupal.
[Continue Reading...]More appropriately, does Techmeme Leaderboard threaten Technorati’s Pop Blogs? Technorati’s descension from their once heralded position has not been lost on me. I think this might be the death knell but I do not understand the point behind the other observations. In reading through the commentary, it seems that everyone agrees that Technorati is on the chopping block but the people that were on Technorati’s Pop list and not on the Techmeme Leaderboard have a more negative take on the new product. The epitaphs levelled at Technorati range from “Attacking Technorati’s Stronghold” to the new bandwagon of “Techmeme list heralds the death of blogging“. Duncan claims that taken in context, this means that “ … New verticals (are) on the way“. You can follow the rest of the conversation on Techmeme. The primary theme of all this diatribe is that multiple author blogs have better coverage, content and attention and […]
[Continue Reading...]Scriblio was released as a public Beta yesterday. For those that have not heard of Scriblio yet,from their about page, it is an award winning, free, open source CMS and OPAC with faceted searching and browsing features based on WordPress. Scriblio is a project of Plymouth State University, supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Scriblio, is completely built on top of WordPress, is highly searchable and offers all the versatility and rich content capabilities of WordPress to the management of Library content. An example site built with Scriblio is the Lamson Library of Plymouth State University. Amazing!
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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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