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By Lewis Wolfe, Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Becoming fractionally tired of these Twitter API limits, which seem to lock everything down fairly early on the day and keep everything slow thereafter.
The canard, (and I’m sure it is only that), that Twitter is a bit wonky due to the Ruby becomes self-fulfilling publicity, simply due to the prominence and focus of the site… which is distinctly unfortunate.
By Lewis Wolfe, Thursday, May 8th, 2008
So this is the brave new world… Let’s be totally honest (for once) - I’ve never seen a bigger pile of dren.
u add my blog as one of your links, and i add your blog as one of my links i got pr2 blog
Now you will get a free ebook every day
(2nd prize, 2 ebooks)
What would you do with an Unlimited Supply of FREE Business Cards? Can you imagine the possibilities?
By Lewis Wolfe, Thursday, March 27th, 2008
This tutorial adds a button to the Wordpress post/page editor in code view, to add a link to a podcast file in your post and therefore also your RSS feed - so that you should end up with this:-
By Lewis Wolfe, Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
I’m that ancient that I’m not quite sure web pages should have images on them, but if you do want to try this new-fangled (in 2005) podcasting business, it’s pretty simple with WordPress.
Strictly, what a podcast is not is a link to a media file from a web page. Yes, large media websites, eg bbc.co.uk think that’s exactly what it is, but what do they know…
By Lewis Wolfe, Friday, March 14th, 2008
Web Design, Seattle - with a visually impressive portfolio of launched client sites, Visualscope Studios are a web design and internet consulting company based in Seattle, USA - offering web site design, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, e-commerce and advanced web development.
The other satisfactory note in this area is the distinct lack of jargon, which ecommerce sites tend to be so fond of - for the life of me I don’t understand quite what ROI really means, (so we’re not talking about profit here?) - unless all ecommerce guys and gals are totally addicted to acronyms - fortunately, VisualScope are not - Web site resource
By Lewis Wolfe, Monday, June 4th, 2007
I was looking at some of the recently released plugins, particularly this stock data one and also something for media content - which adds a noembed section to any embedded content that does not already have one - very handy for people reading a site in an RSS reader.
It was the <noembed> tag which was the clue. Continue reading »
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By Lewis Wolfe, Friday, June 1st, 2007
It is your platform to the world - you have the right to include or exclude any comment.
If someone complains and they’re right, it’s only a matter of time before you notice that any competent blog platform allows you to edit out your error and delete their inconvenient comment.
The more generous way is to strike through your error, probably add a retraction or clarification, and leave their comment. It’s called the right of reply.
By Lewis Wolfe, Monday, May 21st, 2007
There are good reasons to use Feedburner - and, depending on your circumstances, sometimes reasons not.
Feedburner republishes (burns, as they have it) a RSS feed in more powerful and useful form - it’s the same basic content, with added extras.
Reasons For
Statistics/Metrics
It’s the quickest way to find out how many subscriptions a given RSS feed has. Note that this isn’t the same as unique users. WordPress plugins do exist for this purpose, and if that’s all you want, then no reason not to use them.
Still not sure I understand the allure of “ideas not quite formed enough to be part of a blog” - but then I’m not sure I understand Twitter, end of story.
It seems total narcissism to expect anyone to spend the time reading a random jotting that required 8 seconds to impart to the world.
By Lewis Wolfe, Saturday, May 19th, 2007
The “voted on by users so it must be good” idea is due to be tested to destruction.
Not only the semi-publicized plan of Wales/Wikipedia to produce a community-fuelled search engine, hinted at here and here - but also with SquidOffers:-
The idea is to combine the voting mechanism of Reddit or Digg or Plexo with the text ad mindset of a Google ad. But instead of an ad, it’s an offer.
Leaving aside the semantics of ad vs. offer - and with the usual caveat of unless I’m missing something - the question remains: why would people vote to receive more ads?
Folksonomies are born, not built by artifice - I don’t know whether that’s a law or not…
