I made it on the front cover of PR Spin Weekly!
Posted Sunday, August 21, 2005 at 4:41pm in Blogging | Leave a Comment
Pretty funny! Make your own magazine cover from your Flickr photos. From the Flickr Toys section of the flagrantdisregard blog by John Watson.
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Making RSS easier to use
Posted at 12:51pm in Blogging | Leave a Comment
I’ve took out most of my subscribe buttons on this blog after a post by Stuart Bruce yesterday made me realise that too many buttons are just confusing. Stuart rightly points out that professional communicators have to make the communication process as easy as possible. Having a load of funny looking colourful buttons isn’t going to help anyone who isn’t RSS aware.
Another reason I’m doing this is to get a more accurate figure of readership on this very modest blog. If you have various ways to subscribe to your blog, and not all of them go through the FeedBurner process, then you’re not going to know how many or how people are subscribing you.
It was an idea I had been toying with but Stuart’s post probably gave me a call to action. He also mentioned that he would include a link to basic information on RSS, which is an idea I took (stole) and have included it in my sidebar and header.
Others are doing the same. Lee Hopkins has included only one subscribe link to his new blog and so too has Neville Hobson on his new blog, NevOn 2.0.
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TypePad now has podcasting support
Posted Saturday, August 20, 2005 at 11:15pm in Blogging | Leave a Comment
Just logged in to my TypePad account and the news is they’ve just introduced podcasting support. Once you’ve created your podcast, you then go into the post section and upload the file. Voila
I tested it out with an mp3 file and it is as easy as it sounds. However, if you’re wanting to create a series of considerably long podcasts, then this might not be for you. On a TypePad Plus account you’re allowed 500mb for your disk space allotment. An hour long podcast is probably around the 60mb mark, so that’s not too many hour long podcasts you’re going to get for your money. But still, ideal for three minute snippets.
BTW…I thought this had already been implemented? Steve Rubel did it a while back?
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Viewfinder Design
Posted at 5:02pm in Blogging | 1 Comment
Every now and then I’ll try a experiment with my blog’s design. Usually just small stuff like adding links here and there in the header or down the sidebar, or even just inserting a picture to make it a little more colourful. And every now and then, I’ll cock it up…..big style!
When I try to view my blog, all I’ll see is a mass of white pixels or there’ll be funny words spread all over the place! To be straight, I’m not the most techie of people ( I work in PR, it’s not my job :)) and when something does go wrong, I’ll panic!
On a number of occasions, I’ve been helped (saved is a better word!) by a guy who is an excellent WordPress designer. He saved my bacon more than once, and is always happy to help.
Just a quick “thank you” to Lee from Viewfinder Design. Do check out his site for some excellent WordPress templates and also check out his blog–The Digerati Peninsula.
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If you’re wondering which blog platform to use…
Posted Friday, August 19, 2005 at 1:36pm in Blogging | 2 Comments
Josh Hallet points to an excellent blog comparison chart with a list of the most popular platforms. Including Blogger, TypePad (all levels), Blogware, WordPress, Movable Type and Expression Engine.
It includes all functionality elements of a blog including comments, trackbacks, categories, pings, rss, etc. then goes on to show extras, such as, moblogging, photo galleries and none blog pages.
I use WordPress for this blog and I’m currently building a new blog with TypePad. At the moment I’m favouring WordPress. I’m not the most technical person in the world (or in my home town for that matter!) but it seems there are a lot more extras you can do with a WordPress blog…but we shall see.
Josh rightly points out that this chart has been compiled by looking at the standard features only, and doesn’t include plug-ins, extensions or hacks.
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