I have begun to play around with FriendFeed and have added it to my Facebook page and most recently to this blog. Does anybody else use FriendFeed? I like how it allows all of my content that I place elsewhere to be placed within it, but I’m still not sure if this is good or bad. For instance, some content is really only for some eyes. If you’re my friend, and you’re internet savvy, then you’re likely connected to me on one of these social media networks. But FriendFeed allows me to broadcast my activity on these sites here on other pages … and I’m not sure if that’s what I want. Hmmm….
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My custom wordpress themes
Thought I’d like to share, so please find below the two themes I have recently created and extensively modified to match two Web sites I designed.
Barefoot Drums of Houston
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BrandonMoeller.com
Installed: ShareThis!
Last night, I added a new plugin to my blog which allows users to share my posts across any imaginable social network or link posting service.
I originally stumbled upon the ShareThis service by avidly reading Wired.com, which uses it. I used it a few times to forward articles to that certain someone, you know, to further affirm my geekness 2.0. When I first saw the ShareThis interface, I thought: How much is too much? I mean, seriously: All of the latest and greatest Web services just seem to be small variations on the same four-pronged theme: Post content. Share it. Comment on what your friends are posting. Repeat.
Of course, the only problem with that idea is that, thanks to the outburst of all these nifty services, everyone does the same thing a different way. Usually, compatibility seems to be the last consideration.
With ShareThis’ more-is-never-enuff approach, though, at least none of my readers can claim they were left out.
Brandonmoeller blog theme 1.0
Woah. After trying to modify the Kubrick theme and searching for WordPress customization tutorials for what seemed like forever, I stumbled across this page which told me how to apply my site’s existing CSS to my WordPress blog.
And here’s what happened. Looks like it needs some minor tweaking here and there, but otherwise it is very exciting. Stay tuned.
WordPress 2.6
Just upgraded my blog app, WordPress, to 2.6. Neat.
Joomla! A CMS for the rest of us.
On my free time, I’ve been playing around with Joomla! Check out my work in progress here.
Update, Dec. 14, 2012
Yeah, I deleted Joomla because it started generating new user spam and what’s the point of having something on the server that I’m not using or interested in?
RSSinclude!
Today, I found RSSinclude, a nifty open-source RSS ap that spits out PHP or java sceript so I can broadcast RSS on my front page. I found RSSinclude through this page, which I found through Wikipedia, I think.
I also use Feed Digest for this as I do on my homepage to broadcast my most recent blog posts, but then Feed Informer bought them out and when I tried to apply it to broadcasting my Plogger gallery – thus giving me an updated photo on my homepage hands free – it wouldn’t work with the desired results.
But RSSinclude works fine, just as the RSSreaders I added to my MySpace and Facebook accounts.
Now, if I can only figure this out without the ads.
Until laters …