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Google Custom Search Engine for Popula8ion
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Interesting blog on career growth that Shannon found recently.
Entries from October 2006 ↓
links for 2006-11-01
October 31st, 2006 — Daily NetTrek
links for 2006-10-31
October 30th, 2006 — Daily NetTrek
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A fresh voice in the Reruitosphere. Oh joy!
links for 2006-10-30
October 29th, 2006 — Daily NetTrek
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A hosted service similar to jotpot with wiki, blog, organizer functionality. Looks like a nice interface.
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TiddlyWiki’s hosted for you for easy web access from the gang at Monkey Pirate
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One of the best (and few) server side tiddlywiki’s available. Will eventually be a paid service which keeps me from using it. A single user version will be releases at some point called solowiki. That will be very helpful. Written with Ruby on Rails.
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A useful tip on how to create a php file that will show your web hosts version of php/mysql.
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Cool stay-at-home-dad blog
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dad blogger portal
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my comment on podcastgearguy.com looking for his best advice for podcast/netcast noobs.
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Participate.net is a site powered by drupal launched by the ebay billionaire behind many independent films like Syriana and North Country.
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musician moby uses drupal for his official site.
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site of author on drupal and drupal ninja Robert Douglass. Joined Lullabot in August.
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logo idea/inspiration for EXCELER8
And here’s to beautiful red Ducati’s
October 29th, 2006 — Ducati, Motorcycles
Oh sweet rapture!
The Ducati pics were taken by Stefan Isaacs over at artandscience on Flickr. Amazing photos Stefen, thank you so much for sharing them!
Now, back to staring at my computer screen…
Here’s the Duc pic that I used for my blog header
October 29th, 2006 — Ducati, Motorcycles, Uncategorized
Here’s the Ducati image I used for my blog header. This one replaces the nice Harley pic that Shannon put up for me last time.
Another Ducati pic
October 29th, 2006 — Ducati, Motorcycles, Uncategorized
And the paint gleamed in the light and it was red gloss fuck me Ducati red. The lines impeccable – the design sublime, timeless, with a racer’s heart going BOOM BOOM BOOM between your legs as you crank up the engine and leave your worries behind.
The Ducati Multistrada
October 29th, 2006 — Ducati, Motorcycles, Uncategorized
This is the model that I have my eyes on for Shannon and I. There are other Ducati’s I would buy from a looks standpoint, but this one makes for a versatile tourer and two-up machine that would take us comfortably over highway, bi-way, and dirt track. Nothing too adventurous off road mind you – this is a bike that leans more to the blacktop than the dirt, but it can handle the light stuff just fine. The Multistrada won Cycle Words ‘best sports tourer’ for 2005.
“Cycle World Magazine, the world’s largest circulating monthly motorcycle publication, awarded the Ducati Multistrada 1000S with one of their prestigious “Ten Best Bikes” awards this month. The editors voted the Multistrada the best Sport-Touring bike of 2005, citing it as the perfect combination of high-performance sport riding with the comfort and accessories of a capable distance bike.
The Cycle World “Ten Best” awards have been a staple in the motorcycle industry for the past 30 years and Ducati is honored to have the Multistrada included with such landmark motorcycles as the Ducati 916, Supersport 900, and Monster 900, all previous “Ten Best” award winners. Considering that for 2005 there are over 500 competing motorcycles from 36 manufacturers, this award is coveted among OEMs.
The improvements made on the 2005 Multistrada line, including the award winning 1000S version, impressed the Cycle World editors. “While revisiting the drawing
board, Ducati created the 1000S, an even sportier Multistrada with race-quality Ohlins suspension, carbon-fiber front fender, and an attractive tapered handlebar,”
said Cycle World editors.”
links for 2006-10-29
October 29th, 2006 — Daily NetTrek
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corporate blogging post and study from Makovsky 2006 State of Corporate Blogging Survey
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Just saw Joanne on T.V. on PBS. Looked like a great resource for me to pick up some cooking tips. On the episode I watched she was working with a ‘regular guy’ and I thought she did a perfect job of treating him a) like a beginner and b) with respect. The
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A hosted service similar to jotpot with wiki, blog, organizer functionality. Looks like a nice interface.
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TiddlyWiki’s hosted for you for easy web access from the gang at Monkey Pirate
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One of the best (and few) server side tiddlywiki’s available. Will eventually be a paid service which keeps me from using it. A single user version will be releases at some point called solowiki. That will be very helpful. Written with Ruby on Rails.
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A useful tip on how to create a php file that will show your web hosts version of php/mysql.
What’s this: links for 2006-10-29
October 29th, 2006 — Blogs, Internet, Social Media Optimization
I’ve been using the social bookmarking site del.icio.us for a while now to keep track of sites that I want to reference or visit again in the future. I don’t like using a browser’s bookmarks tool because I use too many different browsers and computers on any given day so I need something that isn’t platform or browser dependent.
del.icio.us is a good tool to address this. I can use it for my own stuff but the links that I tag with a key word (e.g. web tools) can then be reviewed by others and vice versa. It’s the whole powerful tagging concept that has become so pervasive on the web in the last 18 months (tagging shows up on all sorts of content sites, including blogs). Very cool for search engines.
In any event, my work in social media optimization has led me to start posting my del.icio.us links as a daily blog posting. This accomplishes two main things. People who visit Julians.name can see what’s got my interest for any given day. It’s true that my links could bore you to death, or they might allow you to find a new favorite site to visit. The other benefit is for me. My site will get better search engine rankings by receiving an automated daily update. If you didn’t already know, search engines love frequently updated sites. While my search rankings really don’t matter on julians.name (because this site isn’t about that) it’s really more to practice good social media optimization practices for our business. Oh, and if you don’t want people to see all of your links you can mark them private (go to your settings once you have an account and look under browser for private saving). There, now you understand the funny posts that began showing up on Julians.name.
Want to know how to do this yourself on your blog? Well, it changes a little based on the blog platform you are using. You can find your own settings by doing a keyword search like ‘del.icio.us daily blog posting nameofyourblogtoolhere’. The instructions below work for WordPress.
By the way, I had a hard time getting mine to work until I found a page that told me that WordPress users don’t fill in the out blog id field (see below). Argh!
- Sign up for a del.icio.us account
- Start posting links. Do this from a browser page with del.icio.us loaded on it or go here if you want to use the handy browser buttons to facilitate this
- Set up a blog category for your del.icio.us daily post (I called mine Daily NetTrek)
- Get the ID # of this category (in wordpress you can see this in your manage categories section)
- Go to the settings section of del.icio.us and under blogging look for Blogging: Daily Posting
- set up the daily posting by clicking on ‘add a new thingy’. This is an automated routine like a chron job that you can schedule to run once per day (the point being to collect your daily links and publish them to you blog for you automatically)
- Fill in the details for the add a new thingy job. For a WordPress blog don’t put any value in the out blog id field and your out url is going to be: http://www.yourblogname.com/xmlrpc.php
[tags]del.icio.us daily blog posting, wordpress[/tags]
links for 2006-10-29
October 29th, 2006 — Daily NetTrek
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corporate blogging post and study from Makovsky 2006 State of Corporate Blogging Survey
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Just saw Joanne on T.V. on PBS. Looked like a great resource for me to pick up some cooking tips. On the episode I watched she was working with a ‘regular guy’ and I thought she did a perfect job of treating him a) like a beginner and b) with respect. The
