By Colleen, on September 29th, 2008%
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
By Colleen, on September 14th, 2008%
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
By Colleen, on July 26th, 2008%
describes aiderss, a rss reader with filtering . . . → Read More: AideRSS — a reader that filters for you
By Colleen, on May 19th, 2008%
An experiment with pingtwitter. I will blog about it and see if it does an auto tweet as advertised. . . . → Read More: Auto tweet your blog post
By Colleen, on April 9th, 2008%
What is the deal with Twitter? I just don’t get it! I’m with Kathy Sierra on this one. (For those who don’t know, Kathy Sierra is one of my all-time heroes — a brilliant educator, writer and blogger who shut down last year due to misogynistic death threats. Would the bullying have been so egregious, . . . → Read More: Twitter — the birdsong of 500 lb. canaries with bullhorns?