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Full story: When God asks
Could be someone’s epitaph. It couldn’t be mine: I have less than 12,500. :) Great contemporary geek cartoon by Oliver Widder who draws at Geek and Poke. Discovered via Smashing magazine and their terrific showcase yesterday of 50 Beautiful Examples of Comic Strip Art.
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Full story: More confidence needed in IntenseDebate
I’m not sure what to make of IntenseDebate, the third-party comment management system that’s been managing the comments, and the commenting process, on this blog since mid November. The screenshot above is probably as good an indicator as any of the sense of frustration I often have with this system. What the screenshot shows is the dialogue that appeared for three whole days on this site last week following an upgrade of the IntenseDebate WordPress plugin. It seemed to me…
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Full story: Twitority fires a first shot at authority search on Twitter
Loic Le Meur’s kick-start yesterday of a storm of discussion about his call for a means of searching Twitter posts by authority has just borne some early fruit in the shape of Twitority. Twitority is a search tool that lets you search Twitter posts and then filter the search results by authority. As Loic tells the story, Twitority came about overnight through Jon Wheatley’s need to scratch an itch (that’s my very quick summary of Loic’s post). And a good…
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Full story: Powerpress: A viable alternative to Podpress
If you’re a podcaster and use the Podpress plugin on your WordPress blog to deliver your podcasts, you’ve probably been having a frustrating time of it during much of 2008. The last release of Podpress was version 8.8, released in December 2007. That’s a year ago, a very long time in blog platform time scales as WordPress has released ten versions (including betas) since then. Significantly, Podpress says it works on WordPress up to version 2.3 which was released in…
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Full story: A Twitter half dozen
I’ve just spent an hour reviewing what’s accumulated in my RSS reader over Christmas, noting and tagging things that caught my interest for later action. Without doubt, the tech topic that dominates more content than anything else is Twitter, whether it’s in blogs, mainstream media or any other kind of website. Not in any particular order, here’s a round-up of half a dozen of what I found as the most interesting topics. If you run your blog on WordPress, this…











