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by Tom on 15. Sep, 2008 in blogging

After a brief sojorn with having my blog hosted by Tumblr, I have returned to hosting it myself using WordPress. Whilst I love the tools that Tumblr provides, I just found it all a bit too limiting. Seeing some of the wonderful WordPress blogs written by folks that I met at BathCamp made me realise [...]

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Twitter Digests

by Tom on 04. Apr, 2008 in blogging

I’ve just switched off the automatic posting of Twitter digests to this blog, and given my Tweets a nice little home in the sidebar. Seeing my blog fill up with posts called something like “Twitter Updates for 2008-04-03” and looking at the ramblings within made it look like I had abandoned it (I’ve just been [...]

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Twitter Tools for WordPress

by Tom on 19. Feb, 2008 in blogging, twitter

I’m toying with the idea of extending my use of Twitter to cross post the titles and URLs of new posts on this blog (and others that I contribute to) as a kind of aggregator as well as micro-blogging platform. I’ll be using Alex King’s Twitter Tools WordPress plugin to to the job. If all [...]

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WordPress Simple Tags Plugin

by Tom on 21. Jan, 2008 in blogging

I’m just testing out the Simple Tags WordPress Plugin as I would like to post content to my blogs remotely (such as from my mobile phone, from Flock, and from my Mac’s Dashboard), but still tag the content. Simple Tags allows you to add tags in the body of a post, which will be imported [...]

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Splogging

by Tom on 15. Nov, 2007 in blogging

I’ve noticed a new type of spam in the past month or so. Buried in the hundreds of spam comments left on this blog and the countless others that I look after I’ve noted that some of them are trackbacks containing excerpts of my own posts. They have often been subtlely changed by using synonyms [...]

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Testing Ecto 3 alpha

by Tom on 14. Aug, 2007 in Apple, Software, blogging

Way back in the dim and distant past, before my other blog, Past Thinking, began to focus solely upon heritage matters, I reviewed Ecto 2. Now, 2 years later, I’m writing this with the alpha version of Ecto 3. This isn’t a full review – this is really just a test drive of the alpha [...]

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