We all use
Feedburner to track our RSS subscribers. It's not just to feed that egotistical need to know how many people are hanging onto our every word, but the number of RSS feed subscribers you have is an important metric for indicating the success (or failure) of your blog. It seems ...
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Last night I attended
MashBash Tel Aviv, an intimate gathering of
Mashable's Adam Hirsch and 800 of his closest friends from the Israeli hi-tech industry. In between having fun and getting served free drinks for three hours, I managed to learn something new. I learned about "social proof."
Social ...
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Last Thursday,
I realized that this blog was being scraped. I'm sure it was being scraped before, but I never really wanted to spend time looking into it. A blog takes so much time to write and manage, that I didn't want to add ...
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I am constantly finding links that I think are not worth a whole post, but I would like to mention here anyways. So I wanted to find a quick and easy way to display short links that would become part of the blog stream, without causing clutter.
I also wanted to do this in a ...
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Once you're writing and/or managing a bunch of sites or blogs, you may find that it would be useful to mash all your feeds together into one feed that displays posts from all of your sites in chronological order. For example, you may want to have each site display all the new posts from ...
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I've seen people mention that a good way to prevent feed scrapers from doing so is by adding a copyright to the feed, but I never really understood why that would help.
But then I met someone who was building up his community site, and he asked if he could publish the feed of one ...
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I've been looking high and low for a simple and working solution for displaying a feed in my site. If your site is widget-enabled, you can easily display another feed with the RSS widget. But if you are not widget-enabled, or you want to put your feed somewhere else, you are stuck. I tried ...
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Most WordPress users are familiar with the
WASABI Related Entries plugin. I've never used it because it involves messing around with the database tables. Instead, I have been using the
Simple Tagging feature of
displaying related posts based on tags used in ...
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I never really look at the main page of my WordPress admin section. It is full of all sorts of stuff that I didn't ask to see, so I just ignore it. But why not put information there that you are interested in, or that helps you with your blogging?
Previously ...
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