Originally posted on September 28, 2006 @ 11:00 pm
Where is the Secret of Life?
Guide to Weblog Comments
Originally posted on September 16, 2006 @ 10:55 am
I was doing some research on some basic rules for people commenting on forums and blogs in general and found a decent article titled Guide to weblog comments and wanted to share since we’ve all seen comments go crazy from time to time on various forums as well as on our own sites or blogs.
A couple of the points from the article I’d like to highlight are things that I see a lot around various sites and forums and I’m sure you do too:
Stay on topic.
Bloggers enable comments on specific posts to hear more about the content of the post. Don’t change the subject. There’s nothing more annoying than seeing a comment on a post about Hurricane Katrina that reads, “By the way, do you know anything about turtles?”
Don’t comment for the sake of commenting.
Commenters who only say “First!” or “Nice site” on an open thread have no business hitting that “Post” button at all. Further, only spammers comment for the sake of adding their name and URL to a web page. Useless comments will gain you the reputation for being a useless commenter.
I suggest that my readers take a look at the article to see some of the guidelines that are pretty good food for thought and maybe start to use them in your daily work and personal life while commenting around the internet.
You can also download the complete guide to weblog comments from my project page.
Introducing twttr.com From Odeo
Originally posted on July 14, 2006 @ 1:27 am
Back in December, 2004 Noah Glass and Evan Williams founded a small company based in South Park, San Francisco, California called Odeo.
For those of you that don’t know, Odeo is a creative way to record and share audio. The best part about the service is it’s free. You can record audio and then share it with your Odeo contacts, by email, or by placing it in a Channel for all the world to hear. Audio from Odeo can be downloaded to desktops, iPods, and mp3 players.
Well on July 13, 2006 they officially launched a new service that helps groups of friends bounce random thoughts around with SMS.
You can find it at http://twttr.com. Twttr is pronounced “twitter” if you were wondering.
Evan Williams has a great technology past. He most recently was with Google, where he ran their personal publishing service, Blogger, which he co-founded in 1999 and later sold to Google in early 2003.
I bet Evan used the money from the sale of Blogger to fund Odeo. I wonder what he sold it for? We’ll probably never know the juicy details thanks to Non Disclosure Agreements.
Make a WordPress Theme In Minutes
Originally posted on October 3, 2006 @ 8:23 am
A good friend of mine Joe Kaplan just launched ThemesPress.com which is a site to turn any standard HTML template or design into a fully functional WordPress Theme in minutes.
The best part, it’s all automatic, so people with little to no PHP or HTML skills can make a WordPress theme from any design they have or purchased from a design site.
If by chance you do have a little HTML or CSS skills, you can also fine tune things before you purchase the theme.
You can even preview your theme before you purchase it to make sure everything looks exactly how you want. What more could you ask for?
There is a $10.00 per theme charge but that is really low for this I think.
I was one of his beta testers for ThemesPress.com and now that the site is done and ready for public release, I wanted to let others know about this great service and help spread the word about it.
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