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Be the First to Rate This…

October 30th

Outbrain is a plug-in content rating system that also provides recommendations automatically at the end of each article where it is installed. There is no special logins needed to rate an article, just click on the number of stars you think the article deserves and your rating is recorded.

At Last — Disqus Supports Pingbacks!

October 22nd

Tonight, I got a SMS message from Disqus on Twitter.  The tweet was pretty succinct:
Disqus for WordPress 2.03 released.: This release includes trackback/pingback and pagination support as we.. http://tinyurl.com/5z98kh
That was enough for me!  Disqus’ lack of PingBack support in WordPress was really something that I missed, as you can probably tell from this article’s title.  [...]

100th Post!

September 25th

Scribkin celebrates its 100th post!

Diigo Tests Group Thumbs

September 22nd

Now, if you are a member of a particular group in Diigo, you can give certain URLs a thumbs-up if you think it is especially helpful.

The Social Media Burden

September 20th

For me, even when social media is a joy, sometimes it is also a burden.

Good Stat Summary of Twitter’s Competitiors

September 15th

This weekend Twitter has been more reliable than Identi.ca. Steve Gillmor ‘dented a threat about returning to Twitter. And Dave Winer tweeted that he was thinking of mirroring his tweets to Identi.ca.
During the conventions, and up to and including this weekend, Identi.ca has found out what Twitter already knows: the Jabber chat protocol “firehose” can [...]

AFK, Going to PAX

August 27th

I’ve been looking forward to PAX (or Penny Arcade Expo) for months now. I bought my pass and plane tickets and it’s finally right around the corner!

Announcing Reblogging on DISQUS

August 25th


Now on comments throughout DISQUS, you can find a reblog link where you can publish a quotation of the comment to your blog. This quote is cited with the original author, the blog where it originally appeared, and a link back to the original comment to give the discussion full context.
At the moment, we’re supporting [...]

Taking a Week Off

August 3rd

I’m taking a week off.

WordPress for iPhone!

July 22nd

This will be a short note because I am writing it on my iPhone’s touch keyboard. But, I thought it fitting. Why? Because now I can write updates (however painfully) directly from the iPhone!
Developed by Effigent for Automattic, it seems like a very sweet little app! You can learn more about it at iphone.wordpress.net.
Below, hopefully, [...]

Advanced FriendFeed Tip: The Imaginary Friend

July 20th

As it turns out that people use the ‘imaginary friend’ feature in different ways. Here is what we know about imaginary friends on FriendFeed.

Toluu Learns to Hover

July 16th

Caleb has added a new feature to his socialized RSS feed sharing app, Toluu today. Now, anywhere in Toluu when you see a feed name and you hover your cursor over it, you will get a pop-up dialog with the feed name and the last 5 articles titles.

Mea Culpa

July 13th

In Latin, mea culpa means, “my fault.” Mea – me, and culpa – culpable. In this case, I have to apologize for not updating in a few days. You can probably guess the reason why.

Scribkin is Now a Book!

July 9th

I found a great little service called Feedbooks. I have them convert my site feed into a PDF and e-book free of charge!

Su Reviews Idee’s TinEye

July 9th

If you assume that the Tin Man has eidetic memory and a talent for finding pictures that look like each other, you’d be getting close to what TinEye does.

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