Archive for the ‘Status’ Category

Editorial Changes

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

I try not to bore you guys with every little thing that I do to and on this site, but if you visit regularly you are sure to see sidebar widgets come and go, font changes, page lineup changes, ad nauseum. But the changes I am thinking about today ...

Last.fm Has an Annoying Fault

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Don’t get me wrong, I love last.fm. It’s a great service. I don’t think any other product comes close to providing the same functionality of building a music profile and then matching it against other users. No, that part I have absolutely no problem with.

Trackback This

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Good Morning scribkin readership! If you operate a blog, and that blog supports sending a trackback, I have a simple request for you.  I have adjusted the trackback URL on this article to point to (what I think) the Disqus service will use. Next time you post, please ...

YackTrack FeedFlare

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Yesterday afternoon, I sat down with the goal of creating my first FeedBurner FeedFlare.  I wasn’t sure just how hard it would be, so I was ready for a grind.  As it turns out, creating a working FeedFlare was not that difficult.

RSS Feed Mayhem

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Tonight, I was chatting with Corvida, and the topic of RSS feed overflow came up.  We were both frustrated because there was so much new (potentially great) content being produced every day, that we couldn't keep up! A radical new plan was hatched that we both agreed ...

Scribkin Hit A Milestone - 100 Feed Readers!

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

I've never done a stats update, and I haven't refined my tools at all, so this post will be a little rough. First, let's start with the good news: For the first time, scribkin has over 100 feed readers!

Bookmarklets Galore

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

I was just reading an article from Louis Gray about how to use the very cool and capable FriendFeed bookmarklet. That got me thinking about just how many [[bookmarklets]] I have gathered in the past couple of months, and what they all do. You can see them ...

Scribkin’s WordPress Plugins - Let Me Show You Them

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

A rare weekend post today, on a topic that most people probably will not find interesting and some people will find extremely awesome. I am speaking, of course, of the dozens of plugins, mods, and other bells & whistles that I have added to this blog over time. Feel free ...

Return of the Bookmark Badge

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Recently, I received an email from Pat (also known as MicroPat on Twitter), the creator of Add to Any.  He wrote my webmaster account to let me know that he had found my article on ShareThis and Add to Any's interaction with the Snap! service, and was looking ...

New Site Feature: Polls!

Friday, May 9th, 2008

I just added a poll feature to the sidebar of my site.  My first poll asks the question, do you prefer the default action of a link to open in the same window/tab, or in a new window/tab?  I'm interested because up to this point, I've defaulted to a new ...

Hiatus, and News Hot Off the Press!

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Sorry about the long hiatus between posts on this blog.. I definitely have a couple of reviews and primers that I plan on getting out this week. Also, with a little luck I will have a guest post, which is exciting! I have actually had a few developments ...

Follow Me at Google Tutor!

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

I've been sitting on this information for a little while now, but I noticed that my first article, Gmail error 102, has been published -- so now it is official! I am going to be a regular contributor to Google Tutor! Since I am relatively new to blogging, ...

Update: Switched to FeedBurner

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Just a heads-up, I have enabled FeedBurner and all the associated goodies on my site. The plugin should take care of redirecting the current RSS URLs to FeedBurner, so in theory you don't need to do anything further in order to continue getting the quality blog entries you have ...

FeedFlare, Disqus and gReader

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

In my last post I asked the question, "how can I show how many comments my entries have in my feed?"  I actually sent an email to TechDirt (since I read their feed and it has that feature) and Dennis Yang (who is on Twitter too!) wrote me a very ...

Feedburn, Baby, Burn

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

I am seriously considering switching to using Feedburner for my blog and comment feeds. This will allow people to subscribe via email without and special work on my part, as well as give me statistics and the possibility of feed ads down the road. What I would REALLY like, is ...