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Pimp Up Your WordPress Guru Status- Trimming Those Long Titled Posts with Slugs

Here is a cheap but useful trick for you WordPress bloggers- don’t sap your readers with 10 mile long URLs. If you use the Permalink option to publish your posts based on the date, time, generally it turns a long title blog post like above into something horrible like: http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/14/pimp-up-your-wordpress-guru -status-trimming-those-long-title-posts-with-slugs That is butt ugly […]

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My Reader Runneth Over

Between travel earlier this week for NMC meetings, time off between now and Monday, and squeezing in many late night hours banging our new drupal site (should be able to share it in a few weeks), I’m feeling way behind the blog train. Just sifting through my RSS feeds, I am compelled to send a […]

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Buried, Blog Lying Low

In between travel for meetings, trying to ramp up the new beta for an NMC site, and some time off this week, the blogging quotient here promises to be low and/or dull. Heck, I;ve not even taken a photo in like a week. And I’m not even getting to go to Northern Voice (sniff). I’m […]

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Share, Link, Repeat

Bryan Alexander writes of Web 2.0 network ecology stories and wonders about the phenomena of discovery, re-use of digital media. He shares examples of photos he has taken, shared have seen positive, maybe unintended use by others, as well as the joy of connecting with people beyond his current circle of connections (which is not […]

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CNN Big Picture Maps Stories

It might have been on c|net’s site for 8 years, but I just randomly discovered their “Big Picture” feature — by attaching associated links form their stories, this flash app can create a visual map, showing connected stories or companies featured on their site: For every story published, News.com editors and reporters included relevant links […]

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Writing To My Blog with WriteToMyBlog

Talk about serendipity! I can count on one or two paws the number of times I've clicked on a Google AdSense ad. But in reading my inbox in Gmail, someone wriote about blog writing, and there was a link to Free Web Word Processor for your Blog.  I bit and look what I got!   it's […]

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Scratch All Future Conference Presentations on Web 2.0

And maybe instead, we can get it with 5 minutes, no bullet points, no lecturing in Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us, a YouTube gem: This comes from Digital Ethnography @ Kansas State University, “a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital […]

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This Dog is Wagging Ella

It was time to make the run to upping this WordPress site to the current version, 2.1, nicknamed “Ella”. Hey, it is jazzy! There are promises of better code under the hood and some new features I’ve yet to really look much into. I’m pretty religious about following the upgrade instructions, backing up the static […]