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Full story: Useful but user unfriendly
One of the things I really like about DreamHost, the US company which hosts my sites including this blog, is the frequent and clear communication on what’s happening with their service. They have a status blog, but what I find best of all is the RSS feeds. I can even subscribe to a unique feed which provides me with information about just the specific server I use. That’s proved useful tonight when I couldn’t log in to WordPress. A quick…
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Full story: Right to the heart of full-content RSS feeds
If you offer an RSS feed from your website or blog that isn’t the full content, here’s something for you to think about. Like many people, I’m an RSS creative-consumer. That means I read almost everything of interest to me via RSS as well as publish content that you can get via RSS. I don’t visit many websites including blogs unless I’m googling in search mode or if I want to leave a comment. I read my content of interest…
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Full story: Become a cartoon with MSN
This is one of those delightful mashups of software, the web and imagination that doesn’t really have much obvious practical application but is great fun. MSN China is running the MSN China cartoon beta that will take any photo of you and, with your customizations on the website, turn it into a series of cartoons. Here’s what it did when I uploaded my photo, the one you see on this blog (top right corner): Just a selection from the many cartoons…
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Full story: Maximizing junk mail from the receiver’s viewpoint
I got sixteen individual items of junk mail through my letterbox this morning. Home furnishings, credit card offers, pizza restaurants, insurance… it goes on and on. Much of it has the pseudo-personal approach of “specially delivered to you by hand,” etc. Is anyone really fooled by that? Today’s quantity is more than usual. The usual daily deluge is three to five items. If you replicate that across the country, I bet it’s the equivalent of half a rainforest being chopped…
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Full story: Fix for Windows Live Writer bug
My post the other day about Windows Live Writer attracted a notable comment from Shannon Whitley with the solution to a show-stopping bug in using this excellent offline blog editor with WordPress (and maybe other platforms, too). The bug in question arises if you use WLW beta 2 and you have the Bad Behavior anti-spam plugin activated. If you do, you’ll get an error like this whenever you try to publish a post to your blog: The remote server returned an error: (403)…
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