Entries from June 2007
Technorati Blog Cosmos – Who’s Linking Who?
June 16th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Technorati, as you may know, is a combination of a blog search engine and a blog directory. While not every blogger feels it’s of any worth, there is the Technorati Top 100 Blogs list, and being on it means some measure of success. To get there, of course, you need to accumulate links to your [...]
Blog Slideshows, Part 2: Turn Text Feeds Into a Photo Slideshow
June 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment
This is a variation of the tubetorial Custom Flickr slideshows for your blog. The Yahoo Pipe there queries images directly from Flickr and manipulates the feed. The Pipe is then run and the RSS feed generated can be used in SplashCast to create an RSS-based slideshow.
What if you just want some eye candy for your [...]
Custom Yahoo Pipes/ Flickr Slideshows For Your Blog
June 11th, 2007 · 5 Comments
We’ve previously played with various Yahoo Pipes to generate Flickr-based photostreams and photologs. This Tubetorial gives a variation that produces a slideshow. That is, a single slide player will be embedded in a webpage/ blog post and display all images in that footprint.
While you can take a straight photostream and use a variety of web-based [...]
Tubetorial Quick Tips – Mindmapping a To-Do List
June 7th, 2007 · 9 Comments
Mindmapping can be used for numerous purposes including brainstorming, organizing keyword lists, managing projects, and various other planning and productivity tasks. They’re also useful for complex to-do lists, especially if your tasks have some hierarchy.
Now, as I mention in the video at the bottom of this post, a simple paper-based mindmap is usually more than [...]
Tubetorial Quick Tips – WordPress – Privacy Settings
June 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Have you just set up a new WordPress blog? From version 2.0x+ and up, a number of features either were enhanced or added to this great blogging platform. Privacy is one such feature – though I’m not sure exactly which version it appeared in (possibly 2.04), but the latest version at the time of writing [...]
