Alt + Ctrl + 0 So sad but I can’t wait.
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Not only does the craigslist blog not have an RSS feed I’m about 90% sure they just hand code it. The comments are just a new forum section. What exactly do their programmers do over there?
The auto update plugin feature in wordpress 2.5 is awesome. Webapps are starting to get much closer to desktop apps.
Chyrp looks like a great light weight blogging tool ala tumbler. I’ve been moving my site over to a tumble like interface for a while now but it definitely feel like a hack in wordpress with custom fields all over the place. I’m considering jumping over but I’ll need to a bit more research if I can import old wordpress posts and mirror the same URL structure.
Intense Debate seems like a cool new service. You can install it on your site as a commenting system to replace the default system in popular systems like blogger and wordpress. It seems to integrate pretty well with the ability to import and export comments and just a lot of work was put in to not seem like a silo stealing your information.
The functionality seems a little over kill for small site like mine but I do like the benefit of knowing more about who is leaving comments. I can’t see my self being an early adopter but if this catches on and tons of people use it I would not be opposed to setting it up.
Sure it’s a popularity contest but the competition for Best Blog Design at the Blogger’s Choice Awards is pretty thin. The Design community needs to jump in and show them who’s boss. (vote for me! Ick.. clearly it’s using alexa’s old cashed image of my site)
I had the link blog for awhile, but nobody read it
- Rafe Colburn
Alot of people seem to have the problem of feeling uncomfortable in thier blog. They enjoy it but it always seems as if something stands in the way of making it as quick as it should be.
Del.icio.us has basically become link blogs for the masses but it’s just one kind of filter.
A while ago Jason did a kind of overview of the two different types of bloggers.
It really seems like the two kinds of blogging are fundamentally different.
journal-style bloggers like the open text field to write in and communities like livejournal and vox.
filter-style bloggers have tried to live in their world of open text boxes but lately there has been a lot of movement toward really looking at filter-bloggers closer.
Tumblr is a great example of facilitating easy and fast filtering. It really makes my wordpress install feel like it’s dragging it’s feet.
It’s odd watching this functionality come around so slow. Eyebeam started reblogging back in 2003 but th interface was so awkward no one seem to use it beyond eyebeam (a great blog by the way).
Some how I doubt Tumblr will be the last word on the topic. Being a filter blogger myself I hope for some sort of killer app that lets me integrate my current content.
I remember the moveable type fall out (when I started blogging) and all those apps to port your posts from MT to WP. I’ll definitely need something like that to convince me to switch in the end.
Andre Torrez builds an amazing way to add del.icio.us links to your blog with out all that messy automation. I’m hoping this solution works as well for me as I hope it does.
Hello. I’m Stefan and you’ve been reading my website. According to my stats I almost have 50 readers and beyond one or two of them I have no idea who you are?
I love knowing who stops by. Trey Piepmeier, TangognaT, and Keri Adams are probably all I know who stop by.
If you check this site even only once in a while you should comment below. Let me know who you are and what you like and I’ll be sure to help you find some some awesome stuff online.
Google’s RSS Reader has just gotten a major update to function a lot more like a standard RSS reader. I have to say I’m highly impressed. They have a lot of work to do to convince me to move from Bloglines but I am very interested so far. I’ll hopefully give a more comprehensive review this weekend.
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists have a cool news section of their site that they often update with not only news but commentary as well. Yes that’s right they have a make shift blog but with no frills. And that means no RSS feed.
No RSS feed? I’m supposed to visit the web site? forget that! I’ve gone through the trouble to make an RSS feed for them:
Ted Leo RSS Feed
John Gruber thinks Google Analytics will kill Mint like Google Calendar killed Kiko.The problem is Calendar/Kiko were both for the masses while Mint was always built for small niche (A niche with high design taste and disposable income). Google Analytics will never win over the people using Mint.
I’ve gotten a lot of satisfaction out of keeping track of the books I’ve been reading. I only wish I’ve always had a list of what I have been reading and when. Now I want to take more control of the books I intend to read. So far I’m not sure if I like the system I have going but I don’t think I’m that far off.
Nothing makes me more sad then when a bad article get popular. SEOmoz has an article called “5 HTML elements you probably never use (but perhaps should)” a title that would get about any article bookmarked. But it’s a very disingenuous title.
SEOmoz suggests using the <address> tag with no mention of the hCard microformat. In this day and age after even Bill Gates is talking about microformats it’s a topic that should not be ignored.
They think you should use the <q> tag for quotes though it has no support in IE. How is this helpful at all? Sure it’s sad that IE doesn’t support it but it’s hard to then tell me I should always be using that tag.
And I would argue that <acronym> and <abbr> are fairly wide used. I maybe biased since I read mostly web designer blogs but I see these all the time.
With del.icio.us and digg and so many other link aggregators around there is currently way too much focus on coming up with a good post title first and then writing any crap article afterwards.
I’m coming to the point where I dread clicking on any article with top 10 this or 5 of this other thing you should use. When will the insanity stop?
The President of Iran has just started a blog. I would love to read it to get a better understanding of the other side of the story. Some where some one will pick up the slack and translate The Iranian President’s posts to English. Let me know if you find who is translating the posts. (via BoingBoing)