Category Archives: Social Media

Something to work into my writing

“She was atwitter before there was a Twitter.”

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Turn Your WordPress/Blogger/LiveJournal Blog Into a Book or PDF

Someone asked me about exporting their entire blog into something readable and printable. Here ya go.

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Study: Real Photos Better Than Stock Photos

Marketing Experiments Blog – This Just Tested: Stock images or real people? So what were the results? Well, Mrs. Generic finally met her match. It appears that an attractive smile is not a match for a good name. Overall, the … Continue reading

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90,000 Strong Botnet Trying to Break in to WordPress Sites

Ars Technica – Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet: Security analysts have detected an ongoing attack that uses a huge number of computers from across the Internet to commandeer servers that run the WordPress blogging application. … Continue reading

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My Latest Invention – The Facebook Clip Show

You know how, when The Simpsons needs some material post haste, they piece together a clip show from pieces of previous Simpsons episodes? So what do the same thing, but with Facebook posts? And if you aren’t following me on … Continue reading

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Using WordPress? Install Better WP Security to See How Many People are Trying to Break Into Your Site

I’m writing an article for work about WordPress security. Part of the process is trying different WordPress security plugins. One of the plugins I tried it Better WP Security, a Swiss army knife of security tools. One of its features … Continue reading

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Ice Storm Here in Knoxville. What Would Bear Grylls Do?

But hey, at least we got a cool name for our ice storm: KHHAAAAANN!

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Jeff at Alphecca.com could use a little help

He’s trying to make it until his first unemployment check comes in.

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Tamapalooza

Tam has basal cell carcinoma. Consider visiting her site and hitting the PayPal link during the giving season. I didn’t mention it until now because I had to wait until payday to kick in and it seemed sort of dubious … Continue reading

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Make Perfect Facebook Cover Pictures with Google’s Free Picasa

Facebook has moved everyone to the Timeline layout, so everyone needs a cover picture. The cover picture format is 851 x 315 pixels. Your pictures can be bigger than that – Facebook will resize them to fit. The main thing … Continue reading

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Mozilla PopcornMaker 1.0 Movie Editor

PopcornMaker is a cool Internet-enabled, online movie tool with timeline-based editing. Pop in media from YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, or an HTML5 video source. Or start from scratch. Then add text, images, popups, Twitter feeds, Wikipedia articles, or GoogleMaps. Then either … Continue reading

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Facebook Changes Algorithms to Encourage Sponsored Posts; Many Pages See Massive Drop in Reach

From Niel Van Niekirk: Currently I have more than 9,000 fans, and previous to all this, every time I post a new selection of photos, it would usually show after a few days that I had reached an audience of … Continue reading

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Still Alive

A couple of people emailed me to make sure I was OK since I haven’t been posting lately. Work has been keeping me extra busy and I took some time off last week for the kids’ fall break. I’m also … Continue reading

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Use Google XML Sitemaps for WordPress? Check your sitemap.xml.gz for corruption.

Recent versions of the Google XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress create bad versions of the gzipped sitemap.xml file. Here’s how to check if yours does and fix the problem. First, find out which sitemap your site is telling search engines … Continue reading

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For reasons too mysterious to explain, unseen forces beyond my control compel me not to blog

But mostly it’s being busy and having a cold.  

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