WordPress 2.3 Tags not indexed on Technorati?
Update: Changed the permalink structure (options->permalink) to custom so that permalinks are of the form: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname% Rather than using the “date and name” option which...
View ArticleFutures of Entertainment II
Other liveblogs from FoE2. In fact there are so many good ones I’m not going to try to keep up – I’ll add some thoughts later about the conference as a whole. Convergence Culture Consortium Blog FoE2...
View ArticleLiveblogging Futures of Entertainment 2 – Metrics and Measurement Panel
Metrics and Measurement – 1-3:30 Panelists: Bruce Leichtman, Leichtman Research Group Stacey Lynn Schulman, Turner Broadcasting Maury Giles, GSD&M Idea City Jim Nail, Cymfony Description: As media...
View ArticleBlog Spam Poetry
I’m inspired this morning to think I may create a weekly or monthly blog spam poem, assembled from the best lines of comment spam this blog recieves. My favorite blog spam comment of the day (with no...
View ArticleWordPress Facebook Plugin wpbook 0.7 available
(Update 5/17 – 0.7.1 is now available – bug fix release). I’ve spent some time over the past few nights revising the wp-book plugin, which lets you bring your WordPress (self-hosted) blog into Facebook...
View ArticleMollom anti-spam
I’ve enabled Mollom-based anti-spam to this blog – please let me know if this causes any unexpected difficulty or errors. Mollom will ask “suspicious” commenters to solve a CAPTCHA before allowing...
View ArticleOn the Internet, People Know if you’re a dog
(Update, 2pm ET: Scott Hintz from TripIt replied in the comments on the original post apologizing for the employee’s behavior – thanks Scott.) One of the famous cartoons of the first internet craze was...
View ArticleComment Fail
If you’ve tried to leave comments here recently, bless you, and I’m sorry. First, the WP-OpenID plugin for one specific version (2.2.0) had a bug which ate comments containing double quotes, which...
View ArticleUpdated WordPress Facebook Plugin
(As of 8/20 – updated again, to 0.7.5). WPBook, the WordPress for Facebook plugin which Dave Lester and others at Scholarpress originally created and which I’ve contributed some to, has been updated...
View ArticleWPBook Updated: WordPress Facebook Plugin
WPBook, the WordPress plugin which lets you bring your blog posts into facebook, has been updated to version 0.8.1. (You can view this very blog in Facebook as an example, assuming you’re not doing so...
View ArticleBlogging on and off the corporate domain
Always delightful social media guru practitioner (and north shore Massachusetts neighbor) Chris Brogan has an excellent post on the overlap/conflict between personal brand and corporate brand: “The Big...
View ArticleOwnership and the Importance of Open
So this weekend I was writing some blog posts, listening to new tunes, and in between catching up on my reading of the print magazines that tend to pile up on the corner of my desk. One of those print...
View ArticleType Pad (dis)Connect – All UR comments are belong to US
In some ways it is exciting to see the launch of Type Pad Connect but in others it seems a Faustian bargain. You get some spiffy features, including the ability of other bloggers to leave comments...
View ArticleUpdated: WordPress Facebook plugin update – with Profile Boxes!
Updated for 0.9.3 (Jan 13 2009) Updated for 0.9.2. (Jan 7 2009) Updated for 0.9.1 (Jan 2 2009) I’ve been working on an update to WPBook, the WordPress to Facebook plugin I co-developed. I haven’t yet...
View ArticleWPBook 0.9.7: Share Posts, Ease of Installation, Add to pages
I’ve just released version 0.9.7 of WPBook (a WordPress plugin to bring blog posts into Facebook and enable comments from Facebook users) here and at the WordPress site. A few changes since 0.9.3, the...
View ArticleFacebook Comments Box, Ownership
I’ve been looking into the Facebook Comments Box, which launched in February. Photo by suburbanslice It’s a perfect example of what I’m seeing as a growing trend, in which various “social widgets”...
View ArticleTry Rollip (With Free Credits)
I was recently invited to try a service called Rollip, a web application which processes photos and applies effect to them. As a bonus, the first 15 people to visit the service using this link will...
View ArticleWPBook 1.5 Released – Let the Streaming begin!
WPBook So for a while I’ve been working on and beta testing the next version of WPBook. Tonight I’ve just tagged it for release, so it will be available for download shortly. (I’ve already been running...
View ArticleIs a Blog a Community? Hoovers’ B2B Buzz
B2B Buzz - New Community for Small Businesses from Hoovers Online (Via MediaPost) Hoovers and several business cosponsors have launched a new “social community” for small business users called B2B...
View ArticlePodcamp Boston This Weekend
Podcamp Boston (6) is this weekend (Sept. 24th and 25th) at the Microsoft NERD center. Here’s the schedule (which they haven’t yet published except as a google doc): My friend Dave Wieneke will be...
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