Archive for 'Arts'
Mashups for the rest of us
Posted on03. Mar, 2010 by Kirk.
Yahoo calls it Pipes, but I call it drag-and-drop mashup creation. Absolutely no programming knowledge is required to create Pipes with Yahoo’s new tool.
With Pipes, you start with one or more sources of data. These can be search results from the web, from a map location, or from Flickr; or the data can be an [...]
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Post every 90 seconds
Posted on03. Mar, 2010 by Kirk.
Media Guerrilla has a provocative post on the 90 second news cycle. The secret to media exposure and worldwide fame, then, is to post something good every 90 seconds, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That’s over 9000 350,000 blog posts a year.
Alternatively, you can create good quality relevant content and maybe get [...]
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How to watch for Diggs to your site
Posted on03. Mar, 2010 by Kirk.
I plan to post a series of tips on how to use RSS to help with your blogging. This first one comes from howtogeek.com.Digg.com can be a great source of traffic to your site. If you want to know if an article has been Dugg, follow the link and read the post.
read more | digg [...]
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Stem the flow but find what you need
Posted on03. Mar, 2010 by Kirk.
Technorati has their top 100 blogs, with popularity based on the number of links to the blog. These popular blogs are high volume and tend to be heavy on geek-tech subjects, though a number of political blogs are also featured.
These blogs are linked to because the content tends to be pretty good, but the busy [...]
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Pipes, JSON, and code for your website
Posted on03. Mar, 2010 by Kirk.
Although there’s still quite a bit going on with Yahoo Pipes, interest in the gee-whiz user interface seems to be waning around the blogosphere. While the drag-and-drop interface is cool, I think one of the more useful and interesting features of Yahoo Pipes is its ability to export data as JSON data.
Yahoo makes all of [...]
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Google offers free wireless broadband to your home
Posted on03. Mar, 2010 by Kirk.
Solution for the last hundred yards
For those who haven’t seen the news yet, Google has announced TiSP, a free in-home wireless broadband service. It’s in BETA, and those wishing to participate must apply TODAY, April 1, 2007.
Installation couldn’t be simpler: Remove the spindle of fiber optic cable from the installation kit, activate the patented [...]
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BuzzFlux: Recent Search Queries
Posted on03. Mar, 2010 by Kirk.
In my ceaseless quest for content to clutter up my blog’s sidebar, I have found a rich new source: reader search queries, or “buzz”. BuzzFlux allows you to retrieve and display these search queries in near-real-time, right in your sidebar, for the amazement of your readership. It also signals my return to blog-hacking after a [...]
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Blog Update Feed and Sidebar Display
Posted on03. Mar, 2010 by Kirk.
One question that arises regularly with my blogging is the update dilemma – what should to do with those little scraps of information that pertain to an earlier post? This article outlines an approach to dealing with this common issue.
When I’m following a breaking news story or there’s delayed developments or even a random thought [...]
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Embiggen Those TinyURLs
Posted on03. Mar, 2010 by Kirk.
If you use a lot of TinyURLs on your blog, you might want to checkout this new tool – Embiggen. It expands those cryptic TinyURLs (eg tinyurl.com/2dfmty) to their full version, allowing your readers to make an informed decision about following a link. (That’s good URL etiquette.)
It’s available as a button to insert into any [...]
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Fun with 2D Barcodes on Your Phone
Posted on03. Mar, 2010 by Kirk.
Have you noticed those strange black and white grids – like demented crosswords – popping up around the place? In newspapers, flyers and the like? No? Well, I have. And I dare say if I lived in Japan I’d have seen them on T-shirts, coffee mugs and a whole lot more.
They’re 2D barcodes for your [...]
