Category Archives: Blogs

NewsGator Online Services

Wow! Greg has been busy! In addition to announcing NewsGator 2.0, there will also be NewsGator Online Services, which includes three [new] content reader editions: “Web Edition — NewsGator Online Services provides a web-based content reader, which allows users to … Continue reading

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Social Bookmarks Manager Right-Click Context Menu

Last night I hacked together a bit of JavaScript to add a right-click context menu posting option to Joshua Schachter’s Social Bookmarks Manager. It works in a similar fashion to the bookmarklet, but is accessible via the right-click context menu … Continue reading

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Blog without Blogging

No time to blog? Try Drunk Men Work Here’s free weblog service and utilize their Zero-Click posting technology Best of all, there’s no learning required!

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jpcache with Movable Type

I’m again using jpcache with my blog. This time however, I’ve integrated the PHP-based gzip and caching capabilities of jpcache with Movable Type. You should see a significant speed improvement through out the site — especially on some of the … Continue reading

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Disable MovableType’s Send Entry Script

The file ‘mt-send-entry.cgi’ in a default MovableType installation can be used to relay spam. If you’re not using the script to allow your users to “Send this Entry by Email”, you can safely remove the file from your MT install … Continue reading

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Movable Type Blog Migration

Over the last week, usually in the mid-to-late evenings — after Catherine falls asleep, I have been slowly migrating my B2-based blog to Movable Type. I must say that for the most part the process has been fairly straight forward. … Continue reading

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Is Comment Spam Cost Effective?

I’m getting my fair share of comment spam like many other bloggers, but I can’t imagine that the cost/time ratio is actually worth it. I think Sam Ruby sums it up best: “65 minutes to create. Carefully crafted to appear … Continue reading

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Salesforce.com on Social Networking

Ross Mayfield posted an excerpt from an interview with the CSO of Salesforce.com in regard to Social Networking. The interview was conducted by IBDN, but I wasn’t able to find a direct link. However, here’s a quote from the M2M … Continue reading

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NewsGator posting plug-in for B2

Cool! Greg has released a NewsGator posting plug-in for B2! (hopefully this will work!) [Now Playing: Elvis Costello - Can It Be True? (03:46)]

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Blackout Blog

Awesome collaborative phone-cam-blog that covers the Blackout.

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NewsGator 1.3 Released

Greg Reinacker has just released NewsGator 1.3, which includes initial support for Pie/EchoAtom feeds, among many other great new features! Congratulations (again) Greg!

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Study shows blogs are under-represented in Google

Interesting study released by Microdoc News debunking (mathematically) that blogs are clogging Google [Estimations show] “there are about 150 million webpages that belong to blogs. Out of 3.8 billion webpages 150 million is about 3.9% of all pages in Google … Continue reading

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Going Commercial

Like many other bloggers, I’ve decided to give Google’s AdSense a test run. I suppose I’m most interested in the type of Ads that get served on subsequent posts. Specifically, the context matching of content to Ads. So far it … Continue reading

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WordPress b2/cafelog derivative

Congratulations to Matthew and Mike on the release of WordPress, which is the official fork in the b2/cafélog blog tool. On a test server I converted the data from my current b2-based blog to WordPress with very little trouble. Especially … Continue reading

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Dynamics of a Blogosphere Story

Ok, I suppose my post is a reaction or vote to Microdoc News Dynamics of a Blogosphere Story study, which not surprisingly is tracking on Blogdex. Whatever the case, and the label for what I’m doing here, I do find … Continue reading

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