In case you hadn’t heard, our local newspaper publishers (Gazette-Times/Democrat Herald owned by Lee Enterprises) have taken a giant step future-ward with the launch of the new mid-valley voice social network. If you are not local, I would hazard a guess that other historically print based publishers are doing a similar thing to try to . . . → Read More: No worries: this post will NOT suck you into a vortex
 13 comments - (Comments are closed)  Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff  auto-blog, blog sourcing, community, community social network, Democrat Herald, driving traffic, feed, funnel, Gazette Times, go to hell, Lee Enterprises, local, meta, Mid-Valley Voice, no maintenance, recursive, self-referential, source, suck, traffic funnel, vortex, widget, yourminis { “pipe_id”: “52c9a16ff593ec43760f996b6e6b5a16”, “width” : “490px”, “height” : “400px” } This is a yahoo pipe that gets fed my twitter name, goes to the public twitter feed, finds my “friends” who have provided geographical locations, and uses that data to map them. Yahoo pipes are amazingly visual ways to build mashups. If you don’t . . . → Read More: Map Your Tweeple (twitter friends) Comments are closed Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff Andy Murd, badge, blog, embed, feed, followers, friends, georss, javascript, map, mashups, password, pipes, third party, tweeple, twitter, username, visual, yahoo pipes Feedburner will create an animated banner that cycles through the five most recent items on any RSS feed. I used it to create an IAB standard 468×60 banner promoting my tweets. There are excrutiatingly detailed instructions with screendumps over on my companion hub at hubpages (let them host the frakkin’ screendumps) but in a nutshell: . . . → Read More: Use feedburner to promote your blog graphically 8 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff 468x60 banner, animated banner, animation, blog, blogging, Burn, Configure, create, exposure, feed, feedburner, headline animator, hub, IAB, leverage, linkedin, login, marketing, microblog, publicity, recent items, rss, syndication, tweet, twitter, xml |