I stay pretty tuned in to the activity on our little blogosphere and for the past 6 months I’ve noticed a significant downward trend in the number of posts and comments coming through Google Reader. Is this slow down a direct result in everyone’s increased use of Facebook? My hypothesis is that people who were [...]
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Google posted up a video guide that goes through how to use Google Reader. I posted about using Google Reader to keep up on your friends’ blogs back in 2007, but a lot of people have joined our little blogging circle since then. If you aren’t using a feed reader and still click through to [...]
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You might be wondering what these “Shared” posts are. Most of my web surfing consists of reading my RSS subscriptions in Google Reader, all 146 of them. On a given day I might find one or two things that I think other people would want to read. Google Reader lets you share items with your [...]
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Finished moving myself, The Blarg and Mike over to the new host. We’ve got lots of space and bandwidth so just have to find something to do with it. If anyone is getting tired of their Blogger or Wordpress.com blogs and wants more flexibility I can hook you up. Blogger’s commenting system sucks so I [...]
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Tags have become a big part of Wordpress. Back in the day we had categories and that’s it. A user could search the site for keywords, but categorizing a post couldn’t be accomplished without a ton of categories. Recently I added a bunch of categories, reassigned my posts into them and ended up with a [...]
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