Category: technology
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RSS Feeds on WordPress
Getting RSS Feeds to display in your posts, pages, and sidebar isn't as easy as some claim. I tried for ages using a plug-in called 'firstrss' but just like the first time I had sex, it didn't seem to work out and turned me off the whole thing for a while. But then I discovered…
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Checking Spelling on WordPress 2.0
I found a great spell checking plug-in for WordPress 2.0 today by Raj Prasad called Editor Monkey. (I would have thought that spell checkers would come standard with content management systems by now). The plug-in took me ages to install (as it is a pretty large file at about 40mb) but it was worth every minute of it as…
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The World’s Most Popular Blog
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things (From The Age) AT FIRST glance, the world's most popular blog, Boing Boing, looks like a pleasant 10-minute diversion: links to "nerdcore" rap music downloads, photos of shoes made from computer keyboards and South Park updates. But the six-year-old "directory of wonderful things" attracts more than 1.7 million…
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Web 2.0 – The Promised Land
Approaching a definition of Web 2.0 – The Social Software Weblog I have never really liked the ‘periodisation’ that comes out of ICT discourse — like calling ‘social software’ and the developments around content management systems (blogs)– the ‘Web 2.0’. The Web has never really been one thing and never will be. ‘Web 1.0’ was…
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Social Bookmarking Sites
Two important social bookmarking sites I have subscribed to are http://del.icio.us/ and the increasingly ubiquitous citulike.org Now, to get the RSS feeds to work on the sidebar!
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What is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. This technology uses XML and allows a user to “subscribe” to websites that have provided RSS feeds. Feeds typically are provided on web content that changes regularly. RSS is widely used by weblog and news organisations. Here is a tutorial.