Posts in: Blogging and Metablogging
- WordPress 2.6 released today
- The big new features? Edit tracking: Tucked way down at the bottom of each post is a revision history. You can see who changed what and when. SSL support for your administrative panel, plus the ability to force SSL logins. That’s critical if you frequently blog from public WiFi spots. Press This: Post links, YouTube and Yahoo! Videos [...] [15 Jul 2008]
- Recommended: “Ugly Violet”
- Quoted from the piece: I just write and talk about sex. But every woman on the Internet gets called slutty and ugly and fat (to put it lightly) no matter what; all we have to be is female. In dinner conversation, my friend Lori reminded me of the Oscar Wilde quote, “Give a man a [...] [29 Mar 2008]
- Why I went private on Twitter
- For 10 months I had a public profile on Twitter. I shared the minutae of my days or what I was thinking at the time, links to stuff I was reading, or jokes with friends. Somewhere along the way a total of 150 people started following me. I only knew or knew of about 60 of [...] [14 Jan 2008]
- Russian propaganda goes online
- Worth a listen: this CBC Search Engine podcast episode on the Kremlin’s use of bloggers as citizen propagandists, as well as government-paid hackers and saboteurs. The Kremlin piece starts about 6 minutes and 17 seconds into the show [MP3 download]. And you can find the T-shirt in the photo accompanying the post on CafePress.com. [10 Jan 2008]
- 8 blogs you should be reading
- Useful, interesting and/or fun, these are eight blogs to which I have recently been introduced. Clientside I mentioned Clientside before as a place to find documentation for Mootools, but it’s also the home of a very robust blog on JavaScript and other front-end development topics. FOSSwire News, reviews, and tutorials about free and open source software for Linux, [...] [27 Aug 2007]
- Black Weblog Awards
- The nominations are in. Vote for your favorite. [16 Aug 2007]
- Recommended reading: When accessibility is not your problem
- Accessibility expert Joe Clark writes about specific instances when web authors should not worry about web accessibility. The philosophy that Clark is asking us to adopt is a simple one. From this article: It’s not even that new, but what certainly is new is the fact that I’m calling for everyone to take a pledge of some [...] [1 Jul 2007]
- 5 über-cool, über-useful WordPress plugins
- SimpleHelp.net offers a list of 7 plugins to install immediately after WordPress Part of the joy of WordPress is the extensive number of plugins that offer added functionality and make blog management easier. Here are five of my favorites. WP-Cache UPDATE: Try WP Super Cache which turns your WordPress entries into actual HTML pages so that they don’t [...] [26 Jun 2007]
