Here’s a quick question for bloggers and blog readers. Do you ever use or refer to the calendars posted on many WordPress blogs? Do you use them to remind yourself what day it is, or to see what posts, if any, appeared on a specific date? Did you even know that clicking on highlighted dates … Continue reading About those sidebar calendars
This is a test of WordPress’s incorporation of PollDaddy polls today: Oh, that’s so cool. It was a lot of work designing and integrating those same polls a couple of months ago. Now it’s so simple a caveman can do it. Continue reading WordPress and PollDaddy make sweet music
WordPress announced a new “sticky post” feature this morning. I didn’t know this was in the pipeline but I love anything that adds flexibility to my blog presentation. I’ve seen it used on game forums and boards and it can be extremely useful for keeping a hot topic at the top of the page. Note: … Continue reading Testing: This is WP’s new sticky post feature
I have received my first ever blog award (and you never forget your first time!). It’s from Java Queen! JQ runs one of my favorite personal blogs and I’m delighted she thought to include me among her recipients. I’ve always thought of this blog as sort of a mixed bag of indeterminate purpose (said to … Continue reading We interrupt this program for … a little blogrolling
If any of your posts have been scraped by ScienceGuide.net, the splog that scraped me, there is now significant recourse (I think). The site now sports Google ads, which gives us victims the right to lodge complaints with Google. Instructions for doing so are on the Google site. Look in your dashboard for sites that have linked to … Continue reading Now you can go after ScienceGuide splog through Google
Scienceguide.net is a splogger. They stole my recent MIT article — lock, stock and picture — and posted it at http://www.scienceguide.net/mit-solar-energy-storage-project-puts-big-oil-notice. It was a little post, just a note about something I thought was cool, but I guess I have an intensely possessive nature or something. Sooo … knowing there was little I could do … Continue reading I got scraped by scienceguide.net
