This is pretty handy …
JustBlogIt with a simple right-click.
JustBlogIt is a Mozilla / Firefox extension to allow easy right-click posting to a weblog. From any website your new blog post is only a right-click away.
For those of you not enlightened, it also works with Blogger, Drupal, LiveJournal, Movable Type, Radio Userland, TextPattern, and TypePad.
This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs (and aggregation sites) are most influential in the propagation of memes. The dataset from this experiment will be public, and can be located via Google (or Technorati) by doing a search for the GUID for this meme (below).
Please join the test by adding your blog (see instructions, below) and inviting your friends to participate?the more the better. The data from this test will be public and open; others may use it to visualize and study the connectedness of blogspace and the propagation of memes across blogs.
The GUID for this experiment is:
as098398298250swg9e98929872525389t9987898tq98
wteqtgaq62010920352598gawst
The above GUID enables anyone to easily search Google or other search engines for all blogs that participate in this experiment, once they have indexed the sites that participate, which may take several days or weeks. To locate the full data set, just search for any sites that contain this GUID.
Anyone is free to analyze the data of this experiment. Please publicize your analysis of the data, and/or any comments by adding comments onto the original post (see URL above) [Note that the URL has vanished at least three generations back – DCH]. (Note: it would be interesting to see a geographic map or a temporal animation, as well as a social network map of the propagation of this meme.)
Ok iSeries Bloggers … now WE have a button!
I would suggest you reference it like this:
<a href="http://www.iseries.ibm.com" title="IBM iSeries -- For when you can't afford to be out of business"><img src="/images/iseries-button.png" alt="IBM iSeries"/></a>
Feel free to use the button graphic on your site … but, please, copy it to your own server instead of referencing mine 🙂
If you do decide to use the image … trackback to this post. Maybe I’ll setup an iSeries blog agregator sometime.
Well, for those of you who care (and I know there aren’t many of you), I’ve made some changes on the blog … some of them obvious, others not so much.
First, I’m using WordPress 1.3 alpha 2. Yes, I know … alpha code is untested. But heck, this isn’t exactly a mission critical website. I’m actually checking it out of cvs so I can keep my few customizations intact.
Second, you may notice the removal of the “Links” on the side bar (Over there –>) and the addition of “Blogs that I read”. Ginny got me hooked on Bloglines, which is an online feed agregator. I used to use RssOwl, but it was a pain using it at both work and home. Now that I’m using Bloglines, I don’t get notified that something is new when I already read it at another location. It’s also got a nice Windows tray application that tells me when one of my feeds has been updated.
Next on the list is fix the styles … need to tweak some of the spacing.
Found a pretty cool plugin for WordPress that gives me fancy image titles for the posts.
All I have to supply is a font file and the TitleImages plugin does the rest.
I had to tweak the plug-in a bit so that thte images work with the permalinks, but that wasn’t too difficult.
The licensing plan for Movabletype is changing … not that I can blame them. They need to make money, put food on the table, go on vacations, etc…. but for what I use a blog for (not much), it can’t be justified.
So I’m giving WordPress a try … it’s GPL’ed so there are no licensing issues.
So far it’s not too bad … although I’m a bit concerned about the performance. Even with a mysql database back end, and a P4 2ghz server, it seems to crawl.
Got my first batch of comment spam the other day … I guess my blog is important enough to rate spam.
I found James Seng’s Bayesian filter for MT and installed it. Seems to do an adequate job, although I would have liked it to be a bit better integrated into MT’s UI.
I’ll have to configure Ginny’s blog with the appropriate tags so she doesn’t get spammed.
Ginny wanted some more features installed on her blog, some of which require PHP, so I switched all our HTML over to PHP. No big deal in the blogging software (MT) … but for some reason I’m having trouble getting mod_rewrite to map requests for html files to php.
Obviously there are links to the html files out in the internet (Google has a number of them, so do some of the site agregators.
Seems to work when I just have
RewriteRule (.*)\.html$ $1.php
in the .htaccess file … but when I change it to
RewriteRule (.*)\.html$ $1.php [R=permanent]
It seems to have problems finding the file. Not sure exactly why yet.
Oh well, I’ll just have to experiment.
Ok, now I understand a little better why Ginny keeps playing with the style sheets on her blog. It’s pretty addictive.
I think I’ve found a style that I like … had to tweak it a bit so that the Google ad doesn’t get overlayed, but no big deal.
‘course, that brings up the biggest gripe I have about CSS …
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Just testing another MT plugin … supposed to transform acronyms to liniks.
Lesse … RPG? COBOL? IDE?