Anyone who tweets or sends URL’s in emails likes short URL’s for different reasons. Twitter users like ’em because of the 140 char limit for tweets. You don’t want to use all 140 chars allocation on some hairy ugly URL–you also need a few to hint what it IS! Programmatic email senders like ’em because . . . → Read More: TinyURL API
 8 comments - (Comments are closed)  Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security  API, automate, crunch, curl, email client, Exception, function, GET, getTinyUrl, hairy ugly URL, line, link, linkedin, multi-line links in email, PHP, POST, query string, support, third party, TinyURL, TinyURL API, toolbar, toolbar button, trivial api, twitter 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 Tech Republic ran this news item giving particulars about who lies most on their resumes and what things they lie about. IT came in third place. Job responsibilities was the most “lied about” item on resumes. But as a veteran filling out job application forms, I have to wonder what really is considered a lie. . . . → Read More: IT third place in Lies on Resumes 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff corporate, embellish, falsify, fib, fit, IT, job, job application forms, kvm switches, lie, linkedin, little boxes, management, misrepresentation, network, news item, reporting, responsibility, resume, router, samba, Tech Republic, vague language This is a prototype expression of thanks in the form of Linky LUV in appreciation of my fans over on Hub Pages It randomly displays one of their widgets right here in an IFRAME. This has been upgraded so it will do anybody’s fans, not just mine. If you don’t like the looks of the . . . → Read More: A hack for my Hubpages fans Comments are closed Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security expression, fan club, fan widget, fans, hack, HubPages, hubpages fan widget, iframe, linkedin, Linky, Linky LUV, LUV, prototype, random, refresh The dork is featured again in Issue #4 (August 1) of Information Security Short Takes that I was in last month. This blog features a monthly blog carnival potpourri webzine of useful selection of security related articles. I know, I know, nobody wants to hear about security. It’s boring as all get out, and . . . → Read More: Security Articles Growing a Tail! 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Hacking and Security article syndication, blog carnival, consequences, crack, credit card, hack, identity, identity theft, info security, linkedin, nightmare, security, security articles, tail, webzine If you like stumbleupon for discovering websites and blogs, you are gonna love stumbleaudio for discovering new artists and tracks. Warning: it is a flash site but the interface is well-done and intuitive. . . . → Read More: StumbleAudio: a great way to discover new tracks 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Multimedia, Uncategorized art, artist, attraction, audio, background music, beat, cover art, crap, deal breaker, download, flash, genre, genres, hack, instrumentalists, junk, junk food, Latin, linkedin, music, niche, play, pulp, pulp fiction, ream, schlock, schlocky, singers, spanish rap, stumbleaudio, stumbleupon, track, trite, untalented, visual describes aiderss, a rss reader with filtering . . . → Read More: AideRSS — a reader that filters for you 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies agent, aiderss, automation, Bloglines, crawl, feed filter, feed reader, geeky, google, linkedin, metablog, opml, overall score, some heavy hitters, threshhold, twitter, video tutorial Want to know a little secret about bloggers? We bloggers all have a bad case of verbal diarrhea! We just can’t stop spouting off and we all like an audience. Since we’re all doomed to suffer from this malady, we might as well get paid something while we suffer from it. The downside to blogging . . . → Read More: HubPages: A paying outlet for your verbal diarrhea 20 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Monetizing, Multimedia Amazon, article, audience, chronological, diarrhea, direct search, downside, ebay, editorial approval, experiment, google adsense, HTML, hub, HubPages, kontera, lens, leverage, linkedin, Monetizing, outbound links, publicity, referrals, revenue, search engine, search engine traffic, Seth Godin, shelf life, Squidoo, standalone, tracking, writing, wysiwyg editor If your blog is 100% nutritious lean tech protein, it seems as dry and flavorless as a digital camera manual. Besides, any cook knows that the flavor is in the fat. Not useful but people like it better. That’s the lesson I have been learning lately but I hadn’t taken any action yet. Even so, . . . → Read More: Free link juice in a blogalicious flavor 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies 4 things, Analyst, art school, dork, entrepreneur, friends, geeks, link juice, linkbait, linkedin, meme, networking, social, substitute music teacher, symantec, tech, to kill a mockingbird, triplets of belleville, viral, web 2.0 |
Entrecard gives bloggers all the comments they could ask for!
Dorkage’s response to Entrecard’s partnership deal with SezWho . . . → Read More: Entrecard gives bloggers all the comments they could ask for!