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Top Ten Thoughts on Beginning Podcasting
Lorelle asked “What Blogs Make the Best Podcast Blogs?” I have two podcasts: ShowBizRadio.net (theatre information for the Washington DC area) and ChristmasMusic247.com. Key things I’ve learned: Pick a publishing schedule and then keep it. Bandwidth usage can increase exponentially. For some reason China loves my ShowBiz podcast. I hit 32GB of downloads in March. […]
Blocking WordPress Comment Spam
Back in January I tried renaming the wp-comments-post.php file to avoid comment spammers. That worked for about 10 hours, then they started using the new file name. So I switched back to the default filename. Like I said back then “So unless you change the comment post filename regularly, it doesn’t do much good.” Well, […]
Google sending email to webmasters?
In Better badware notifications for webmasters, Google mentions they may send email to generic addresses (like webmaster@ and admin@) to help alert webmasters that their site has “bad” stuff on it. Please don’t send alerts to “generic” addresses. Those get only spam for me. It would be great to let us webmasters to set up […]
Powered by WordPress Directory
Fitting into the “Doh! Why didn’t I think of that?” category, Powered By WordPress – PoweredbyWP.com launched recently. It’s a directory of the zillions of blogs and web sites that are operated by the WordPress CMS (Content Management System). I’ve started submitting my blogs to it, hopefully they will be approved.
Web 2.0 Explained in Under Five Minutes
A very cool video explaining how and why the Web is so important.
Adding An Advertisement After the First Post on a WordPress Blog
On one of my other sites we run advertising, a banner ad. Because I haven’t had time until today to figure out how to get the ad to appear after the first posting on a page, we’ve been putting the ad on every page of the site, except the home page. The include code is […]
Snap Preview Anywhere Hurting User’s Web Experience
Snap.com is running a new service, Snap Preview Anywhere. It allows websites to have the links on their site show a preview of the linked site in a floating window. I have stumbled across several sites that are using this technology, and I find it distracting. I’m reading through a page, I scroll down and […]
Is Python the equivalent of Basic?
I am about to inherit a Plone based web site at my day job. So I’m reading through the docs at the Plone web site, and they say that I should learn Python. I am shortly at How to Think Like a Computer Scientist and am running my first Hello world program (command) in Python […]
Domain Registry Support; Network Solutions Whois database is down
I can’t access the Network Solutions Whois database. * WELCOME to the VeriSign Global Registry Service Whois Server. * * Sorry, the Whois database is currently down. * * Please wait a while and try again. Thanks I needed to use it to confirm the registration dates for one of my domains hasn’t passed. I […]