It took a while for me to get around to these videos on youtube but here’s my favorite.
My other favorites:
Nuclear
Religion and politics
Healthcare
and I still haven’t seen all of them so I’ll just update this post if there are anymore. … Read More »
July 29
After the comment on how I added additional RSS feeds for browser detection I went ahead and made the least necessary plugin I’ve ever released. Maybe Movable Anything is unnecessary for more users but this plugin might take the person longer to download and install than just modifying their header file in their template, even though it has an options panel.
For those who do not want to edit their header template I scraped this plugin together in 30 minutes. Add RSS is:
Add RSS Feeds to your template header for Firefox and other browsers to detect your additional RSS feeds. Feeds are not excluded to local RSS to your site. For example you can add your Twitter or Pownce feed just as easily as adding your comments feed.
Updated version just uploaded, 3pm PST.
I went ahead and added a bunch of RSS options to my site:
Just click the RSS icon in your browser and you should see the options above.
Update:
If you’re wondering how, all I did was put the rss feed in the header.php file of my theme. Example,
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0 – Main” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0 – Comments” href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/DanCameroncomments” />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0 – No mini-posts” href=”http://dancameron.org/category/general/feed/” />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0 – Pownce” href=”http://pownce.com/feeds/public/DANCAMERON/” />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0 – Google Shared” href=”http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/17910337670127747913/state/com.google/broadcast” />
Applied some minor fixes to Google Ajax Search over at it’s new home, Extend.
The plugin if you do not know uses the Google AJAX Search API and even though I see a lot of room for improvement, especially in the options panel UI and options that include using the new releases to the API I still think the plugin … Read More »
July 28
Commenting threads is what I really miss from twitter and the more threads that happen at pownce like this the more I’m loosing my grip on using twitter except to keep track of the people that I miss over there.
Which makes me think of why Pownce hasn’t used the API of Twitter to merge the two. … Read More »
July 27
I just wanted to post how great our vacation trip was last week. The camping trip un-tethered me from the internet enough to give Google Reader some time off too. I have plenty of flickr photos of the trip and some of me wakeboarding, yes I know, I can’t wakeboard. Well, I can’t wakeboard … Read More »
July 25
It looks like Pownce screwed up my feed last night and feedWordpress pulled in a lot of someone else’s messages as a result. That’s why my site this morning looked pwned.
That’s my assessment anyways, what I can’t figure out is why feedburner didn’t cache those mystery posts within my pownce feed. Maybe it’s feedburner’s fault and not pownce or feedwordpress. Otherwise there is a security hole in feedwordpress that’s allowing posts to come through. I doubt it’s that but I’ll keep my eye open.
Update: It’s non of the above. It’s Twitter Tools which I deleted and uninstalled and did about everything else I could possibly do to get rid of the thing.
I do apaligize for the duplicates yesterday. After migrating to Pownce and shutting off twitter tools to pull in posts Twitter Tools went crazy. Every time I deleted the twitter posts they automatically were added minutes later without my doing. I’m thinking it was a cron issue because only after I deleted the cron value from the options table did it stop, but I did delete the plugin instead of just deactivating it and also deleted the tweets table so I don’t know.
Anyways for the people who do not prefer my mini posts (now from Pownce) I do have other feeds for you to use, depending on the category:
http://dancameron.org/category
http://dancameron.org/category
In my next theme I’m going to make these more clear for readers because this morning I received a concerned e-mail,
I’m interested in what you write from a web design point of view and would certainly resubscribe if you create a feed for entries only
Since I’m talking about Pownce as my mini-blog tool; I really don’t know how I’m going to manage it in the future. I do want the posts in my feed and I do want everyone to be able to comment, not just Pownce users. So for now I’m going to keep them the way they are. Currently they’re being pulled in by feedwordpress and then a post is created. This is actually the same way I used twitter tools with the only caveat that my site’s sidebar will now link directly to Pownce. My reasoning is my “fans” will read my RSS and will be able to get to the post on my site to comment, my guests on the other hand will just go to Pownce directly if they click a link in the sidebar and hopefully they’ll just followup at Pownce.
In the future I do want to seperate the two becuase I really want the ability to segmant out my actual friends so I can post whatever I want and send whatever I want without any questioning about it being appropriate. And Pownce does that for me. An easier transition would be for them to fix their damn commenting if you’re not logged-in/registered.
I mentioned a new theme and I want to say that I’ve been inspired by simplicity of some major blogger sites, namely Dave Winer’s site. The plan is to either get going on a new theme for the sandbox competition or wait until the entries are released so I can fork one of the entries. The later seems more reasonible at the moment however I don’t know what I’ll be doing on some Friday night at midnight in the coming weeks.
