Video on the Internet is hot, hot, hot. But you already knew that. You visit loads of video sharing sites to check out what's new. Or maybe you already monitor a few sites using their RSS feed in a feed reader. But now you're finding it increasingly harder to keep track or find the types of new videos you'd like to watch for. What we need is an RSS video radar. We'll use the … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2007
Tubetorial Quick Tips – WordPress – Choosing a Theme
As I mentioned in the WordPress - Choosing Permalinks quicktips tubetorial, WordPress has a lot of nice features unconfigured out of the box. For example, despite there being probably thousands of free themes for WP 1.5 and 2.x series, the standard install only comes with two themes. One is so so and the other is boring. Neither one is particularly optimized. Fortunately, … [Read more...]
Tubetorial Quick Tips – Yahoo Pipes – Concatenate Strings
Yahoo Pipes has numerous modules which may appear useless at first glance. However, my feeling is that they've been very carefully selected for some very powerful RSS feed processing. This post is part of a series of "quick tips" for Yahoo Pipes that will lead up to more complex feed manipulation. While most Pipes modules produce an RSS feed, there are a few that produce a … [Read more...]
Advanced Mindmaps: Processing A Keyword List For Blog Post Ideas
Looking for ideas for your blog? NicheADay is a web service that emails you a list of keywords for a hot niche of the day. Sign up is free, but you can use any keyword list for this tubetorial, which will show you how you can take a keyword list and quickly process it in a mindmap, to clustering related phrases tgoether. In a subsequent tubetorial, I'll show you how to then … [Read more...]
Review: W3 <MarkUp/>
As a blogger and an occasional web developer, I weave pages for that growing network called the internet, for clients I have not seen, who live 5-8 time zones away from me. Where I work is irrelevant, as I work anywhere; I work everywhere. Right now I'm on my bed, my trusty Macbook on a pillow on my lap, watching The Bucket List as I type away. Pausing for a moment to try … [Read more...]