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Mobile Internet Users: The Silent Minority
I’ve just installed the Wordpress Mobile Pack, a free set of plug-ins that format, edit and compress your blog so that it works better for mobile users. It switches to the mobile version on-the-fly as it detects the user agent (browser) used. There’s a link to the mobile version in the sidebar, if you want [...]
Tagged blogs, mobile, mobile communications, wordpress
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Wordpress Out-of-Memory Fix
I’ve been making some changes to this site recently: upgrading to the newest version of Wordpress, choosing a new theme and fiddling with the layout.
One thing I discovered is that, unless you’re running a very minimal installation, it’s quite easy to run out of memory, even with only a handful of plug-ins. Versions of the [...]
Would You Like Herring With That?
The latest storm in a teacup to upset the blogosphere is the spectre of ‘fast-food content’. Raised as a threat by McArrington himself, the worry is that fast and loose content quickly generated to match popular keywords will swamp quality content in search rankings.
…what really scares me? It’s the rise of fast food content that [...]
Tagged blogs, Fast food, media, news, newspapers
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Past Posterous
I’ve been having a go at the latest chic-geek blogging tool – posterous – recently, as you’ll be able to tell if you look at the posts I’ve made here over the last month or so. But, in the end, I’ve decided not to use it. Why? Read on.
Eatin’s Cheatin’ : The Backtype Plugin
I’ve recently installed a relatively new Wordpress plug-in from the good folk at Backtype.
This is what it does: it scans the web, including social networks like Twitter and other blogs, for mentions of your post and draws those mentions in as comments on the post. This is a good thing in many respects. It helps [...]
Mr Angry Internet Man Explains
From the Merriam Webster entry:
Main Entry: re·cid·i·vist
Pronunciation: -vist
Function: noun
Etymology: French récidiviste, from récidiver to relapse, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin recidivare, from Latin recidivus recurring, from recidere to fall back, from re- + cadere to fall
Earlier this evening, I made what some might describe as an immoderate comment on Twitter. To whit, when my [...]
Starting a Blog
It takes more written words than it’s worth, so here we go with videos from people who have more talent than me and have taken the time.
…with Blogger, which has become a great platform for casual blogging nowadays, and is certainly the easiest place to start, much under-rated…
and WordPress – much slower, deeper video, but [...]
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Tagged blogs, hosted server, online service, SEO, web email, website software
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About this New Theme
The most radical change you’ll see if you get to the site, rather than read it on RSS, is that it’s single-column. That cuts out a lot of the stuff that was here before, e.g.:
recent comments
blogroll
widgets
So to tackle those:
Recent Comments: To be honest, I write this blog as a semi-continuous rant or eulogy about the [...]
At Mortlake Station
First day back to work. Thanks, world, for the 1000+ emails in my absence. Still, food for thought on the way:
I confess, I was totally taken in by this for a second. I thought, “Wow, there’s a course about blogging at our local college. That’s amazing.”
Of course, I was wrong. Because bloggers are sad, buck-toothed [...]
Bye, Jason… and F*ck You
I am obviously speaking in an out of work capacity here. And rather later than is fashionable in the blogging world – Calacanis’ announcement that he’s giving up blogging was nearly two weeks ago.
At work, we paid Jason Calacanis £5000 to come to London and speak at a conference last year. From reading the blog, [...]
