Category: General

The original graphics behind the look of the blog you’re reading right now (and many others) were made in Photoshop – and I’m a Fireworks-head. Here’s a tutorial and supporting files to tweak your Kubrick templates in Fireworks. The internet astounds me. I left a question over on a discussion for the Michael’s Kubrick templates […]

Just got done tinkering with redirecting my WordPress feeds to my new FeedBurner feeds (the bonus now is that I get stats tracking of my feeds, plus click-through stats). Here’s the basic tutorial: Pointing an existing feed URL at your new FeedBurner URL If you use redirects with WordPress for the cleaner URLs, this worked […]

CBS rips on blogs (though if I remember correctly blogs are the ones that ripped them first – Dan Rather, that’s your credibility flushing down the toilet): [S]ome of the internet’s politics-oriented blogs, no doubt high on the perfume of many “hits” and their own developing sense of community, envisioned a future when they would […]

I love the title of this essay: Intenet Pigs and How they feed. (via Contentious) Comment spam is invading every interactive and community building functionality on the internet. Here’s what you need to do to protect yourself, and to help stop this unprecedented attack by these “internet pigs.”

Google now indexes 8 billion pages. Dayumn.

IT Kitchen chimes in with: The final result is quite the same, human readers don’t know how these formats are different, it’s just not their problems. Developers create different formats, and your readers read the one you chose. By providing old formats and versions you do not contribute to the Web’s progress because people will […]

IT Kitchen writes: As you will see, the blogroll or my blog is not on its index (I might be the only one doing this). This is because I prefer long extra data not to be on every pages to ease reading and seeking. I feel that displaying a whole page of linkbacks or banners […]

Blogumentary hits the film fests: We live in an age where everyone is a mediamaker. Blogs empower us to tell our story, spout and debate our politics, and share ourselves with the rest of the world – or at least the 5 people who read our blog. What compels us to blog? How does it […]

I’ve uploaded the audio from our call with Paul Chaney of Radiant Marketing Group which includes: The difference between business blogs and traditional personal blogs Multiple strategies for building trust and reputation with weblog The unique uses of blogs for solo professionas and entrepreneurs (versus larger businesses) Key ways to promote your weblog to create […]

The Persian blogosphere is abuzz with the emergence of death threats for bloggers that desecrate the name of Allah, Mohammed and other Shia Imams.