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 ...

Strike While the Iron is Hot

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

It’s common knowledge in the blogging industry that updating more frequently will net you more viewers and feed subscribers than writing fewer, perhaps higher-quality posts.  Today, I wanted to address this topic and see if it is actually true.

What I Need is a Universal Receptor Protocol

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Have you ever grumbled that a particular application you use doesn't work the way you want it to, or doesn't have a specific feature you want? Sure you have. I have too. Everyone has. But what makes coders and developers different is that they usually hunker down and implement the ...

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 ...

Tell Me About StumbleUpon

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

StumbleUpon isn't very much like any social bookmarking site out there. And, in a way, that is good. If you are relatively new to web surfing, or even if you feel like you are going to the same 5 web sites every day, StumbleUpon is the perfect remedy.

What is RSS?

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

It is very likely that you have at least heard of RSS, if from no other place than in my recent review of Google Reader. Well, in this primer we will dig down a bit and learn what RSS is capable of, and how its being used out there ...

Gary Vaynerchuck Twittered It Out

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I recently wrote a review of Twitter, so I wanted to share a related video with you, from Gary Vaynerchuck, founder of Wine Library. In this video he is speaking about Twitter vs Facebook from his personal video blog. I really think he's really on to something here.

..But What About the Content?

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Over the weekend I spent probably too much time tweaking the appearance of this blog. I installed and tweaked a select list of WordPress plugins, got my Google ads set up the way I want them, etc. Actually, I could just do this for days -- partially because time just ...

Code over Content

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

I knew this would happen. I have gotten sucked into the tantalizing world of WordPress plug-ins, to the exclusion of writing content for the site. In the future, I will have to prioritize blogging over tweaking.