Yearly Archives: 2008

Poll Results: How Do You Like Your Feeds?

Back in January, I asked how you like your RSS feeds. We ended up with some interesting results.

48% (10 votes) said they preferred full feeds. This is something that most of you would expect. People tend to demand full feeds quite often.

10% (2 votes) said they like summarized feeds. Out of the total 21 votes, I was quite surprised that even that many like summarized feeds. You don’t often hear people saying that. Also, when I used FeedDemon for a week, I really did prefer the full feeds.

29% (6 votes) voted for “I don’t care, I use Firefox Live Bookmarks or MyNT.” It’s nice to see that plenty of people like to read RSS feeds the way I prefer. It really is an efficient way to check your feeds. My experiment with FeedDemon did, however, show that the MyNT experience (which is similar to Live Bookmarks) could do with some improvement. And improvement it shall get.

Three of those who voted (14%) are real wise-guys. “Lightly toasted”? :D

BlogBuzz February 9, 2007

A “Nice” Scraper Site?

There’s someone scraping WSC again. However, they’re not republishing the entire article, just the first few sentences. I’m getting backlinks from it, so I probably won’t worry about it.

EntreCard – The Free 125×125 Advertising Exchange

EntreCard is, as they put it, is “your internet business card.” When you register at EntreCard.com, you upload a 125×125 image. This is your EntreCard, your virtual business card. Now, there are two things you can do with your card. You can “drop” it…

WEB 2.0 Design Quiz

Do you know Web 2.0 design? Take the new Web 2.0 Design Quiz. My score was “Web 2.0 Master’s Degree,” and I only missed one question. I’m betting Michael from Pro Blog Design would miss the same question (hint, hint, Michael). What’s your score?…

Blog Backup Strategy

When was the last time you backed your blog up? If you couldn’t say “less than a week ago” in response, then you need to rethink your backup strategy. How much time have you spent writing posts, and tweaking your template, over your blog’s…

GoCodes Redirection Plugin 1.0

Introducing my latest WordPress plugin: GoCodes, the redirection plugin for WordPress. Have you ever had to give someone a shortened version of a URL? Maybe you’re a podcaster, and you need to say “visit mydomain.com/2008/01/03/my-post-with-a-long-url/ for more info.” Wouldn’t it be useful if you…

Pro Blog Design – Before and After

Michael of Pro Blog Design launched a new iteration of his blog’s sidebar on Friday. Since I knew about the planned update a couple days in advance, I snagged a screenshot of the old one before it was replaced. Stop looking at me like…

Right vs. Left Sidebar

In a two-column layout, where should the sidebar go? Should it be to the left of the content, or to the right? This is an important question to consider. First of all, what are you going to put in the sidebar? Is it going…

WordPress Theme of the Month: Illacrimo

It’s February 2008, and this month’s featured WordPress theme is Illacrimo.