January 2009
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Removing Categories From A Wordpress Feed
Wordpress continues to amaze me with it’s ability to respond to nearly every feature request. While working on a client site this week, the requirement to block a category from the main blog feed was requested. A minute or two with Google turned up the Advanced Category Excluder plugin which gives you this feature and the ability to show your modified “recent posts” in the...
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History Was Made Today
And everyone should see this video a few times: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjnygQ02aW4[/youtube] Related articles by Zemanta Touring the new Whitehouse.gov. Inauguration Speech Wordle shows tag cloud and key words used in Obama speech
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Our New President Really Gets Social Media
I just checked my Facebook profile and received a message from Barack Obama. He linked a new video that took me back to his site to view what is posted on YouTube and below here. What is interesting is how easily his team has made it to share with friends via email. Clearly our next President really “gets” social media. The next four years will be very interesting from a lot of...
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JPG Magazine RIP
By way of TechCrunch I found out that JPG Magazine was shutting down. It’s a shame as I really thought their model of social promotion of user submitted content was brilliant and had applications in other special interest niches. In the end it was their reliance on print advertising that did them in: The site itself was able to attract about 300,000 unique U.S. viewers a month (Quantcast),...