Category Archives: Notes

Daily links, thoughts, ideas, etc.

Lazy Internet Marketing

One of the aspects of these blogging networks that truly concerns me has to do with the web site owners that become members and then stay completely internal to that network as they attempt to use the system to generate new traffic and actions to their site.
While it is possible that every single “shout box” [...] Read more »

Get paid for blogging?

Are you crazy? Am I to believe that I can actually get paid to blog like I normally do for free? Apparently so!
I came across a post from someone talking about this site called Smorty.com and the post was written well enough for me to want to open it up in a new tab and [...] Read more »

Who uses feed aggregator services?

Is there anyone out there that actually uses the services supplied by online companies intending to provide products that allow you to “mashup and personalize RSS feeds”? Read/WriteWeb today talks about the mSpoke launch of FeedHub and how it creates “individualized RSS Feeds that aim to filter relevant posts from a set of feed [...] Read more »

Thomas Hawk must be a photographic genius!

In case you haven’t seen his work, you must visit Thomas Hawks photo archive and blog. This breathtakingly stunning image of the Golden Gate Bridge was just one image he had “lying around”! Can you imagine?

You’ll want to subscribe to his feed as well. I promise you there’s nothing nicer to see in your feed [...] Read more »

OpenAds post for Ad in feed footer

It has been a long, long time since I’ve actually seen OpenAds, the free, open source ad server actually work (for me, anyways). Joseph had it functional about a year ago when we were still using its predecessor, phpAdsNew.
The bg server has probably seen no less than 4 installs of OpenAds since it took [...] Read more »

SnagIt Capture

Photographed by jamesdkirk

The journey of this image:

Installed the flickr accessory plugin for my SnagIt program
Took a screen grab from the SnagIt.com page.
Manipulated the image in the SnagIt editor
Finished in SnagIt and sent the image up to my flickr photos online
Surfed to flickr and am now using the ajax, greasemonkey extension to create this post right [...] Read more »

mikeNcandy

Photographed by jamesdkirk

Sending a test post from the flickr.com site using a grease monkey plugin created by CK.
I was finally able to get it to work from flickr to my self hosted WordPress install. The trick? One needs to allow yuan’s script to run (easily one via noScripts FireFox extension!). Read more »

Yearning to be a part of the conference scene