Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Tipping points are usually when something becomes more and more popular – in this case Danny Sullivan chronicles the challenges that Google has faced as it saves face: 14 “Is Google Evil?” Tipping Points Since 2001

Penelope Trunk: 3. Tailor the idea to the journalist. Here’s something print journalists and bloggers have in common: They love when you do the heavy lifting for them. And like bloggers, sometimes if you write a pitch well, a print journalist will run the pitch almost verbatium, (even in the New York Times). Also like […]

Master Darren: a few weeks ago I noticed an interesting trend on one of my blogs statistics. It seemed that every Friday (or at least every second one) I was getting on the front page of Digg with one of my posts. This was strange to me as I had not purposely tried to get […]

Ah the good old days – I remember when this list first came out – can’t get enough of Jakob: Opening up new browser windows is like a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an ash tray on the customer’s carpet. Don’t pollute my screen with any more windows, thanks (particularly […]

Fontanistas behold: 15 tips to choose a good text type

Scribefire is the new name for PFF, Performancing for Firefox, the blogosphere’s #1 FREE blog editor.

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Noka Chocolates claims they make the purest chocolates in the world. A journalist and foodie start to work his way through the clever marketing messages to learn it is a carefully contructed web of horseshit. And this is after no other reporter had checked out their story to see if any of their claims were […]

Let’s say every author on our blog has a fancy schmancy header. When readers are reading the Author Archive (author.php) and reading just that one particular author’s posts, how do we tell WordPress when to pop which graphic? Off the author ID. The is_author() conditional tag can tell us 1) if we are viewing an […]

Trying to get a template to show just a certain author for a certain category of posts. Finally found this: One post per author <?php query_posts(‘author_name=admin&showposts=1’); ?> <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <?php the_content(); ?> // and other output <?php endwhile;?>