30th
DEC
I’ve Been Rocked
Filed under General, Technology
For a while now I’ve subscribed to the feed for the Google Video of the Day blog. This is easily one of my top 5 favorite blogs right now. I was just given a treat by them, so I will pass it along to you.
25th
DEC
The Greatest Ever…?
Filed under Family
These could be the greatest 3 photos ever. Just might be. Especially the middle one.
21st
DEC
Tasty Wordpress Links
Filed under Plugins, Themes, Web, Wordpress
I’ve decided that I should pass along some links to my favorite things when it comes to Wordpress.
- Alex King hosted a competition for themes. He also setup a handy browser so you can see a demo of each theme.
- Comment spam is a nasty thing. I originally used a captcha based spam blocker (where you have to type in the text from a funny looking image), but have since changed to something more discrete: Spam Karma 2.0. The goal of SK2 is to “stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenters.”
- If you are an AdSense user, this plugin may be what you are looking for.
- If you use Google Analytics for site statistics, this plugin will add the necessary code without needing to hack up your templates.
- This blog is all about blogging. Topics covered range from general blogging topics, to specific Wordpress themes and plugins. There is also a post of his favorite Wordpress plugins.
- This site has an extensive list of Wordpress plugins.
You can see my Wordpress del.icio.us bookmarks here.
What are your favorite Wordpress links?
19th
DEC
Desktop Anywhere
Filed under Open Source, Technology, Web
I’ve heard a lot of buzz surrounding web2.0 lately, but I think I finally have seen it. EyeOS is a browser-based operating system. I haven’t played with it much, but this is very cool, and I look forward to installing it on my server at home and playing around with it. It’s still in beta (version 0.8.7 is the current release) but it seems nice already. There are a couple of demo sites up, so go check it out.
17th
DEC
How Do You Feed?
Filed under Technology, Web
As I mentioned earlier, Bloglines has pretty sucky recently. I’ve been looking to try out some other web-based RSS feed readers in hopes of finding something better.
A while back I talked (briefly) about Pluck. I looked into it again this evening, and there was something about the interface that I just couldn’t get into. I dunno what it was. Pluck has the potential to be cool . . . maybe 
I imported all of my Bloglines feeds into Google Reader when they first released it, but that interface is lacking as well. The one major feature they are missing is a “Mark All Read” option. I think I would also prefer my unread feeds clustered by labels (Google’s version of del.icio.us style tags) rather than just a straight list of unread feeds. I do like the ease of marking important posts with a star. And of course, since it is Google, GReader is in beta 
I’m looking for some suggestions. What web-based RSS feed reader do you use, and what makes it better then the others? I already got an email vote for Rojo, but I’d love to hear why I should give Rojo a try.
16th
DEC
Where is the Superman of the Blogosphere?
Filed under Technology, Web
The blogosphere is in need of some help. TypePad, a leading pay-for blogging service, has had repeated technical troubles because they’ve grown so big so quickly. And on the other side of the blogging spectrum, the web-based RSS syndication site Bloglines is having trouble of it’s own. This article from Slashdot asks an important question:
There’s been no sign of a mass migration from either service. Are bloggers and blog readers willing to accept rocky performance from popular services?
I know of one user is not willing to deal with the rocky service from TypePad.
9th
Tasty Cheers and Jeers
Filed under Technology, Tools, Web
Social bookmarking website del.icio.us just announced today that they’ve been purchased by Yahoo!. As you can see by the comments on the del.icio.us blog there are mixed reactions. Many congratulations for their “big payday”, and quite a few unhappy readers who are making plans to find a new web-based bookmarking utility.
I’ve had a del.icio.us account for a while, but haven’t used it much. They just recently released an official Firefox extension and I’ve used it more since installing said extension. I’m not too hip on the “traditional” method of adding bookmarks, but this extension makes it much more friendly. It will be interesting to watch how Y! ingests this morsel. I’m looking forward to seeing how they couple del.icio.us and Flickr.
9th
Oh I’ve Been There
Filed under Technology
For a tech person to have wit right after their harddrive crashes is amazing. You gotta check this out.
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- jschwanz: tons of NASA links on that list, very cool to see them embrace it January 4, 2009
- jschwanz: list of gov't persons/offices on twitter http://bit.ly/RvYZ January 4, 2009
- jschwanz: Tweet Benefits: @timage bloged today about Figuring Out The Benefits Of Twitter. Here’s what he has to say.. http://tinyurl.com/78f5ev January 4, 2009
- jschwanz: I really like WordPress 2.7, the changes from 2.6 are excellent; quick edit and FTP-less plugin install are my two favorites at the moment January 4, 2009
- jschwanz: @timage nice post on using Twitter January 4, 2009