Well, I see that after a long slumber, A List Apart is back, with a new look and a new outlook. So I’m back too. I updated to the latest version of WordPress, and changed the look of the blog. That default was ready for a change. There are dozens of things about the new [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Blogging'
The RSS Feed is Back
July 23rd, 2005 No Comments
A few days ago the bobpage.net RSS 2.0 feed stopped working, so all four of you reading via news aggregators weren’t seeing any new posts. This morning I woke at 4:45 and realized I had broken the feed while trying to add a new feature. A few minutes later (version control works!) we’re back in [...]
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Reading Feeds
July 6th, 2005 No Comments
According to this NYT article, Visitors to nytimes.com via R.S.S. feeds has soared from about 500,000 a month at the end of 2003, to 7.3 million last April, said Toby Usnik, the New York Times Company’s director of public relations. Note it’s the PR director. All companies should make company news available via — clearly [...]
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My Head Is Buzzing
July 6th, 2005 2 Comments
OK, I admit it. I’ve never understood how Yahoo! Buzz works. I’ve just decided it’s one of those things I’m not supposed to understand, like financial accounting. I think my math skills should transfer, but they don’t. Maybe Swaroop C H can explain it to me (Buzz, not accounting). Given that, Buzz did something with [...]
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Work and not work
June 29th, 2005 No Comments
friend: I discovered your blog. You haven’t posted in a while. bob: I know, I’ve been really busy at work. friend: But I thought your blog was about work?
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TagCloud
June 10th, 2005 No Comments
Another cool little service: TagCloud. It uses the Yahoo! content analysis engine to search your RSS feed, analyze the content, then uses Javascript and CSS to produce a little cloud of clickable tags that you can embed on your blog (or wherever). I tried it on my RSS feed, but there’s not enough content here [...]
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Yahoo’s Blogging Guidelines
June 7th, 2005 No Comments
I’m way behind in blogging due to a disastrous week – connectivity-wise that is. I did see that while I was out of the office, Yahoo posted blogging guidelines internally (Jeremy posted them also.) I’d heard that there was a team working on guidelines. Now that they are published, I don’t see anything surprising or [...]
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Feedburner’s Total Stats Pro
May 10th, 2005 No Comments
If you have a blog, you may already know about FeedBurner, a “feed enhancement service.” I don’t serve my feeds from FeedBurner, but lots of people do. They’ve always provided some free statistics, and recently enhanced the free stats with ad summary performance and circulation trend charting. But they now have a premium service called [...]
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