Archive for June, 2008

Posted on 30 June, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (2) Comments

Green Twit Clouds

7/29/08 – Currently, Twitter is not accepting connections from Yahoo Pipes so my second tag cloud is not working. The Yahoo Pipes blog states that they are currently working with Twitter to resolve this issue.

David Wescott’s comment on my post Green Twitter – Aggregating the Feeds of Green Twits suggested that we create tag [...]




Posted on 27 June, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (0) Comments

Where in the Hell is Matt

Matt Harding travels around the world, dances in various locations, and films it. The first video was released in 2005 and was created to let friends and family know where he was. The video became viral and he obtained a sponsor to do the trip again and the 2nd video was released in [...]




Posted on 26 June, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (4) Comments

Monitoring My Bandwidth Usage for One Week

A number of ISP’s, most notably cable internet providers such as Time Warner, Comcast and AT&T, are moving to a metered access model where the customer pays for Internet access based on usage. Personally, I don’t think this is a bad idea as we pay for metered access for other utilities such as electricity [...]




Posted on 25 June, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (0) Comments

Firedoglake Book Salon – Chat with Progressive Book Authors

Firedoglake hosts books salons or author chats on a variety of political, social justice, and progressive issues. Today’s chat was with Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, and her independent journalist brother, David Goodman about their book Standing Up to the Madness
Since I enjoyed the chat so much, I started adding [...]




Posted on 24 June, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (0) Comments

Green Twitter Update

My Green Twitter post and opml file have been updated based on information from It’s Not a Lecture and AIDG.




Posted on 24 June, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (1) Comment

Green Twitter – Aggregating the Feeds of Green Twits

David Wescott of It’s Not a Lecture wrote a post called Green Tweeting, which was inspired by my Green Twitter post. He went a step further than I did and thought about what could be done with the RSS feeds of the individuals postings about the environment on Twitter. To be perfectly honest, [...]




Posted on 23 June, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (1) Comment

Wordpress Plugins Used on (Anti) Social Development

Wordpress 2.5.1
Akismet – catches comment and trackback spam. Requires a wordpress.com API key
All in One SEO Pack – Search Engine Optimization for Wordpress Blog
AmazonSimpleAdmin
cforms II
commentluv
Exec-PHP
FeedBurner Feedsmith
flickrRSS
Google XML Sitemaps
Gravatar
MyBlogLog Widget
NoFollow Free
Photo Dropper
Related Posts
RSS Stream
SimplePie Core
Twitter Tools

Does anyone have any recommendations of other plugins [...]




Posted on 18 June, 2008 By Kim Woodbridge (10) Comments

Extract Audio from YouTube Videos

I located an online tool that will allow you to extract the audio from any video file. You can provide the link to an online video, including YouTube, and the utility will create an mp3 of the audio. You can also upload your own video file. I’m not sure what the [...]




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