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daily pointers
AORTAL - the anti-portal,
here's today's daily pointers:
05/17/12
B.O.O.T.J.I.L
intertwingled
Phantasmaphile
(RSS)
[daily pointers archive]
Some rights reserved.
on the 'personal brand' concept
The Case Against Personal Blogging[Practical Opacity]This past decade, personal blogging became about building a personal brand. It meant putting yourself out there for future employers or clients.
'something different'
Ode - a simple personal publishing platform for the web – "Simple means you know how it works."Note: This is not an endorsement.
Say goodbye...
The Ask.com Blog: Bloglines UpdateToday, Ask.com let our users know that we will shut down Bloglines on October 1. Not an easy decision, especially considering our loyal and supportive (not to mention patient) user base, but, ultimately, the right one given business reasons simply too hard to ignore.
(sometimes) new = old
Googlethink – "a dip into the collective mind"[via The Letter]
- vs -
Question Suggestions – "voyages into the collective psyche"
[linked last summer]
Tumblr-to-iPhone tool
TumblePhone • iPhone-optimised interface for Tumblr sites(added to mobilemarks as well)
another hyperlocal effort
Raise the HammerRaise the Hammer is a group of Hamilton, Ontario citizens who believe in our city's potential and are willing to get involved in making the city a more vibrant, livable, and attractive place to live and work.
Be a phony ho!
Buy Comments for your Blog or Facebook Page. Start the Conversation. Amazing! And ridiculous.simply useful
Copy Title Firefox extensionAdds a "Copy Title" menu item to the pop-up menu. This puts the current page title on the clipboard.
web form tool
Clippings Firefox extension – "save frequently-entered text for pasting later" (see Quick Start Guide)'misguided' indeed
Associated rePressA tribute to "fair use" and the AP's misguided crusade against the hyperlink. All content on this site was generated automatically from the AP's own RSS feeds. (Sorry, we forgot to include your magic DRM beans.)
tool for linkers
Link Gopher Firefox extensionExtracts all links from web page, sorts them, removes duplicates, and displays them in a new tab for inspection or copy and paste into other systems.
'runs on the Internet'
DistorteThere is this mid-point, I think, where one is not quite imaginative enough to write pure fiction, or even dress their life up as such, and yet not quite interesting enough to simply document their day-to-day. At this mid-point we find writers who simply half-ass both, never offering much clue as to whether we're reading invention, confession or something in between. Yes, this has become another one of those sites.
'a place to gripe'
BLACKOPsMANNERs – "A site/culture dedicated to dealing with rude people that walk among us all."true number could be higher
Blogger arrests hit record highMore bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a report.
Since 2003, 64 people have been arrested for publishing their views on a blog, says the University of Washington annual report...
'sock puppets' and 'astroturfers'
Will fake business blogs crash and burn?Companies caught out posting these bogus blogs - or "flogs" - include Sony, L'Oreal and Wal-Mart, while a whole vocabulary has gradually emerged to describe their actions.
misdirected comments
GumbabyThe Gumbaby Project is an attempt to gather together a directory of comments posted on blogs (and guestbooks, and other inappropriate places) by people apparently led astray by search engines. Certain threads on some sites seem to attract confusion over and over again. People arrive at a blog, mistake the author for a celebrity, an expert, or an authority, and they begin talking as if that's who was listening.
'quick in-page preview'
1 Bit Audio Player – "A JavaScript-inserted Flash MP3 player for WordPress blogs and other websites" [xBlog]Ego!
Dead2.0: Why do I blog?To summarize: I'm an egotistical bastard who, like everyone else, writes a crappy blog but usually finds it fun to do and enjoys the occasional link from the outside world.
intellectual property issues
Fair Use Network – "information & resources for free expression"[EFF: Mini Links]
search by topic
Opinmind "collects the opinions of bloggers all over the world on every subject imaginable." [Basement.org]'mt-blacklist explained'
MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse: Getting the most out of MT-Blacklistad-free (linkware)
RSS Digest – "Show RSS on any Web page with no coding or software installation needed." [BlogJazz]MT for beginners
Learning Movable Type"Tutorials and helpful tips for beginners to the Movable Type web publishing system"
[juliaset]
PHP script
Folderblog – "automatically displays the images placed in a given subdirectory" [ETC. < waxy.org]open source apps
The BlogBox Project. "Blogboxes provide exciting, instantly deployed functionality for your blog or Web site. They are free for non-commercial use. Enjoy them and spread the good word!"JPEG or TIFF format
MTImageInfo Plugin reads "EXIF data from images on your server and allows you to display it next to the images in your MT weblog." [MT Plugin Directory]'AdminOnly' functionality
AdminLinks. This plugin creates context sensitive links in a blog that lead directly back to the MovableType interface. It can be used to create shortcuts which make it possible to go directly to MT dialogues (such as 'Edit Entry') without detour through the MT interface. [MT Plugin Directory]"adds intelligence" to XML link
quickSub. "one-click subscription links to the most popular aggregators""dynamically updated RSS"
RSS Feeds via JavaScriptIt makes use of a PHP script (demo version running on our server) that parses the XML feed, and returns a JavaScript set of write commands that insert the information into your page. All you need to do is to insert a simple JavaScript line of code in the part of your page where you want the feed. The only other thing to tidy it up is to link or insert a sytle sheet to format the output.