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Plugin Development
Will Norris‘ talk at WordCamp PDX introduces WordPress coding standards, common functions, and constants to would be plugin developers (and smacks those who’ve already done it wrong). Also notable: functions, classes, variables, and constants in the WordPress trunk.
Custom Installations
Just as WordPress has a number of hooks and filters that plugins can use to modify [...]
Encyclopodia – the encyclopedia on your iPod
GeoCool! – Rasmus’ Toys Page
IE7 and OpenSearch Autodiscovery
Information Management Now: Social Tagging For The Enterprise
How can I not appreciate thenonist’s link dumps and other posts when they’re illustrated with works like those above?
The men in suits come from May 29. June 4 offers us these funny trading cards and a gallery of horror movie damsels (in distress, of course). June 5 offers a good look at sincerity among other [...]
A discussion on Web4Lib last month raised the issue of Google indexing our library catalogs. My answer spoke of the huge number of searches being done in search engines every day and the way that people increasingly expect that anything worth finding can be found in Google.
There were doubts about the effectiveness of such plans, [...]
Allen asked, via the web4lib list:
I’m interested in how others handle linkrot in library blogs. Do you fix broken links? Remove them if they can’t be fixed? Do nothing?
Michael answered:
I deal with link rot on blogs as I would with any other publication, print or otherwise: do nothing. The post is dated and users [...]
The sale of Weblogs Inc. to AOL last month for $25+ million got a lot of bloggers excited. Tristan Louis did the math and put the sale value into perspective against the number of incoming links the the Weblogs Inc. properties. It’s an interesting assertion of the value of the Google Economy, no?
The various properties [...]
Pepper Computer
Buying a Pepper Pad at Amazon
Pepper Hacks
Victor Rehorst has been blogging about his Pepper since he got it (a few days ago)
Pepper Pad stories at TeleRead
Other Pepper Pad stories here at MaisonBisson
tags: links, pepper, pepper computer, pepper links, pepper pad, portable computing, ubicomp, ultraportable
I’m rather passionate about the Google Economy, so it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to learn that I just wrote about it in my first ever Wikipedia entry.
Here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_economy
“Google Economy” identifies the concept that the value of a resource can be determined by the way that resource is linked to other resources. [...]
Links: starting with politics, going to copyfight, ending nowhere.
On The Mediathis week is reporting on the controversies about Sinclair TV and Bush’s wiring, looks at why there’s a dearth of local real local news, and, most interestingly, compares Bush’s lies to Kerry’s exaggerations.The whole show is available as MP3.
RealClearPolitics lists polls in swing states and [...]
