Over on the popular ProBlogger blog, there’s a post asking readers what their favorite (free) WordPress plugins are. It’s interesting to see what are the popular ones. Some new ones for me include Broken Link Checker and CommentLuv. Sadly Broken Link Checker isn’t cooperating with my install of WP 3.0.1, giving me database errors. I’ve [...]
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For June through July 2010, here are the top traffic sources for Pulpconnection according to Google Analytics. Google organic search Google.com referral Bing Yahoo Feedburner Gleesongs.com widget.linkwithin.com google.ca Twitter The visits from Google dwarf Bing and Yahoo by a factor of ten. I’m surprised to see Feedburner that high on the list. Not sure what’s [...]
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According to Alexa.com, who is the audience that reads Pulpconnection? Based on internet averages, pulpconnection.net is visited more frequently by females who are in the age range 18-24, are graduate school educated and browse this site from work. Not sure what to make of that…
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So I saw some blurb about VaultPress on my WordPress Dashboard but didn’t pay attention to it. Then over on Daring Fireball, I saw another mention of VaultPress so I decided to take a quick peek. Essentially, VaultPress is a premium service to protect your (WordPress) blogs. It’ll backup all your WordPress work so if [...]
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Got around to upgrading Pulpconnection to the latest WordPress 3.0. Seriously easy. Prepping for the upgrade took longer than the actual upgrade. Started by updating all my plug-ins (even the inactive ones). Then did a backup of my WordPress database files (I had a recent backup of my WordPress install file so I skipped that [...]
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What would a sideblog in search of epic look like? Throwing around some ideas…
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I’m always tweaking things here at Pulpconnection and made a few recent changes. Turned off LinkWithin on the home page. Individual posts still show similar topics using the visual LinkWithin widget, but I removed these from the home page to cut down on clutter. Moved Archives to the footer. Though the dropdown box for Archives [...]
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Checking out a new local kine blog called The View from Space (… the one between my ears). Give it a read; yeah only three posts so far but it’s a good start.
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The Twilight saga’s New Moon is having such a profound impact – on the perception of Young Adult books, on movie sales, on life lessons, on perturbing thoughts, on the rise of the Twimom phenomenon, and yes, even on blogging. For me, here are six blogging lessons learned from New Moon. 1. Have a dreamcatcher [...]
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Looking at the Intense Debate commenting system to replace the default WordPress commenting system. Previously made comments won’t show up until Intense Debate finishes importing them.
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KGMB9 did wonders with its blogs and building trust with them, and I’m glad to see this facet transition over to the new mega KGMB-KHNL-KFVE merger known as Hawaii News Now. The new news station has refreshed its blogroll, bringing in some new bloggers. Minna Sugimoto goes Behind the Yellow Tape, videojournalist Duane Shimogawa says [...]
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Had to do some tuning to Pulpconnection after a rash of meltdowns and poor performance. Thanks to the duo of @ryankanno and @mirthlab, I made a few changes hopefully for the better. Deleted Skribit. Good idea to get suggestions but never was used so I removed the service and its Javascript. Google FriendConnect. This may [...]
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Find out by viewing Technorati’s annual study. For blogging hobbyists, here’s the deal: Blog for fun Don’t make money blogging – and only half would like to someday Blog to express themselves (76%) Sound familiar?
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Thanks to some prodding by @mirthlab, I finally got around to “mobilizing” Pulpconnection. What does that mean? I installed an alternate theme that kicks in when Pulpconnection is viewed by a mobile device like an iPhone or Blackberry. This theme is more compact and will then load faster without all the widget bling that you’d [...]
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So I got YOURLS working on pulp.ly, and it does work very well as a personal URL shortener. The only sticking point I had was that shortened URLS weren’t tweeted when created with a desktop blogging app such as Ecto. Tweets would go out when blog posts were generated via the WordPress admin interface but [...]
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I’ve been asked about the Thesis theme for WordPress now and again so here are a few words why I’m a fan of Thesis. Yup, I am a fan of the Thesis WordPress theme. I was a little apprehensive paying for a WordPress theme since there are good ones freely available. I forget the exact [...]
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First, I need to apologize to Kanye West for poking fun at him. Right after a few Kanye posts, Pulpconnection experienced a service meltdown that I couldn’t repair. No, it wasn’t a storm of traffic that brought this blog down, just a runaway Apache web service. This out-of-control service sucked up all my hosting resources [...]
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Been a long time, but according to my Sitemeter stats, Pulpconnection should be passing the 200,000 visit mark sometime today. Sorry, no contest or giveaway (not yet anyways) to celebrate this milestone, just sincere thanks for reading and sticking around these past 4 years.
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From Intense Debate to Disqus
by Gee Why on August 12, 2010
in Life,Passion
I’ve used the Intense Debate commenting system since November 2009, and it’s worked well enough. But… it wasn’t what I exactly wanted. Sure, functionally, it performed as advertised, but small things added up. The full featured comment interface looked cluttered and only recently, registered comments and trackbacks were not showing up completely. You would see [...]
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