Archive for
August, 2008
Posted on 20 August, 2008 By
Kim Woodbridge
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My Top 10 Twitter Addictions
In one of my first articles, Green Twitter – Environmental Resources, I mentioned that I was “addicted to” and “dependent” on Twitter. In the comments, Ari Herzog asked why I was addicted to twitter. That question made me think a little and I realized that addicted wasn’t the right word. Obviously, I can live without [...]
Posted on 19 August, 2008 By
Kim Woodbridge
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Stuff This in Your RSS – Giveaway of the Day
I am adding a new weekly feature called ‘Stuff This in Your RSS” where I will highlight some of the most useful and fun RSS feeds in my feed reader. This will will post every Tuesday. If, for some reason, you don’t use RSS, most of the sites will have email subscriptions or you can [...]
Posted on 18 August, 2008 By
Kim Woodbridge
(1) Comment
Twitter Tools Digest Post Worked for 4 Days, Then it Beckham Flopped
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how I learned to exclude WordPress categories from appearing on the main page and archives of my web site. I did this because I wanted to archive my tweets using the Twitter Tools digest feature. It mostly worked but I ran into a couple of problems with [...]
Posted on 17 August, 2008 By
Kim Woodbridge
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(Anti) Social-Lists 8/17/08
The mid-August list of some of my favorite finds of the week 7 Unwritten Rules for Social Media Newbies – Jonathan Fields discusses some obvious, but not necessarily well used, things that people should do, such as filling out their profile, when participating on social media sites. The Steven Wright Guide to Content Marketing – [...]
Posted on 15 August, 2008 By
Kim Woodbridge
(15) Comments
Don’t Rely on Your Host and Lose Your Blog – Backup WordPress
Yesterday I discussed backing up your hard drive, so today I thought it would be good to talk about backing up your WordPress database. Yes, I know, your webhost has daily backups but do you only want to rely on that? Read Scam’s comment on yesterday’s post. His host was backing up a corrupt version [...]
Posted on 14 August, 2008 By
Kim Woodbridge
(20) Comments
Backing Up Isn’t Hard to Do
What backup plan do you use for your computer? Do you even have one? Could all of your files be easily replaced? It surprises me how many people still don’t back up their data. Eventually your hard drive will break. You may get a new computer before this happens but what if there were a [...]
Posted on 13 August, 2008 By
Kim Woodbridge
(65) Comments
How to Make an Animated Gif from a Video Clip
Last night my friend, ronobvious, sent me a link to this video clip of Cesc Fabregas from Arsenal doing a little dance. He then said he wished he could make an animated gif of the dance to use as an avatar. I thought that there must be a way, so I started looking for resources. [...]
Posted on 12 August, 2008 By
Kim Woodbridge
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Twellow – Categorize Your Twitter Self
In yesterday’s post about updating the Green Twitter list, I mentioned Twellow in passing. Based on Scam’s comments I realized that many users did not know about Twellow. In order for Twellow to become truly useful, users must first know that it exists and then login and add/remove themselves from categories. Twellow is a directory [...]
My Top 10 Twitter Addictions
In one of my first articles, Green Twitter – Environmental Resources, I mentioned that I was “addicted to” and “dependent” on Twitter. In the comments, Ari Herzog asked why I was addicted to twitter. That question made me think a little and I realized that addicted wasn’t the right word. Obviously, I can live without [...]
Stuff This in Your RSS – Giveaway of the Day
I am adding a new weekly feature called ‘Stuff This in Your RSS” where I will highlight some of the most useful and fun RSS feeds in my feed reader. This will will post every Tuesday. If, for some reason, you don’t use RSS, most of the sites will have email subscriptions or you can [...]
Twitter Tools Digest Post Worked for 4 Days, Then it Beckham Flopped
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how I learned to exclude WordPress categories from appearing on the main page and archives of my web site. I did this because I wanted to archive my tweets using the Twitter Tools digest feature. It mostly worked but I ran into a couple of problems with [...]
(Anti) Social-Lists 8/17/08
The mid-August list of some of my favorite finds of the week 7 Unwritten Rules for Social Media Newbies – Jonathan Fields discusses some obvious, but not necessarily well used, things that people should do, such as filling out their profile, when participating on social media sites. The Steven Wright Guide to Content Marketing – [...]
Don’t Rely on Your Host and Lose Your Blog – Backup WordPress
Yesterday I discussed backing up your hard drive, so today I thought it would be good to talk about backing up your WordPress database. Yes, I know, your webhost has daily backups but do you only want to rely on that? Read Scam’s comment on yesterday’s post. His host was backing up a corrupt version [...]
Backing Up Isn’t Hard to Do
What backup plan do you use for your computer? Do you even have one? Could all of your files be easily replaced? It surprises me how many people still don’t back up their data. Eventually your hard drive will break. You may get a new computer before this happens but what if there were a [...]
How to Make an Animated Gif from a Video Clip
Last night my friend, ronobvious, sent me a link to this video clip of Cesc Fabregas from Arsenal doing a little dance. He then said he wished he could make an animated gif of the dance to use as an avatar. I thought that there must be a way, so I started looking for resources. [...]
Twellow – Categorize Your Twitter Self
In yesterday’s post about updating the Green Twitter list, I mentioned Twellow in passing. Based on Scam’s comments I realized that many users did not know about Twellow. In order for Twellow to become truly useful, users must first know that it exists and then login and add/remove themselves from categories. Twellow is a directory [...]
