>Ever since I became a Pro member at MyBlogLog I have enjoyed looking at what my readers click on and where they click it from. One of the most useful bits of information is gleaned by seeing what AdSense banners people click on from what articles.Now, I know MyBlogLog tracking is not perfect (they don’t…
Month: September 2007
Plime: a truly user controlled social media experience
Plime is a pliable tree of interesting links, cultivated and pruned by everyone. It relies on the power of online community participation to control it’s structure and editorial content. It’s also a great place to meet others with similar interests. That is how Plime describes describes itself.After reading that you might think that Plime is…
Nintendo launch party for The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass to be held in New York City
Nintendo celebrates the release of The Legend of Zelda®: Phantom Hourglassâ„¢ with an action-packed launch party at the Nintendo World® store in Rockefeller Plaza. Video game lovers of all ages will line up for an early look at the latest Zelda® game and a chance to win exciting prizes. Fans will have their picture taken…
Is Social Media being used to spread misinformation?
On September 26th 2007 Rush Limbaugh had a conversation with a caller about “phony” soldiers. This call was referencing an earlier discussion about a specific “phony” soldier who was found to have forged his military records. This soldier claimed to be an Army Ranger who had served in Iraq and witnessed atrocities.CALLER 2: No, it’s…
Nintendo, it’s not just for gamerz
On Friday, Sept. 28, 2007 Nintendo visited The Carter Burden Center for the Aging in New York to show off video games that appeal to adults.What’s that, you’ve never seen your grandmother play video games? Ever wonder why that might be?Even though the Nintendo Wii is no where near as powerful as the Xbox360 or…
Adding a referrer specific redirect to your .htaccess file
Have you ever had one of those days when you receive so much traffic from a particular site that you need to redirect that traffic to a cached copy of your content? If you can gain access to your .htaccess file than you can implement this very quick bit of code<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (example.com)…
TNX – another way to sell text ads
Are you looking for an alternative to Text-Link-Ads? I know I am.I was recently contacted by a company that is breaking into the text link marketplace. They offer a service that I feel may just be superior to that which is offered by Text-Link-Ads. If you click on the flash banner above you will be…
The Digg Facelift – 1 week later
Back on September 19, 2007 the Digg blog posted an article by Kevin Rose in which he told the Digg community that some changes were coming. These changes were going to be in the area of Digg profiles.Later that same evening Digg went down for maintenance and when the site came back up more than…
Heroes is back!
It was a very long summer for me. All work and nothing worth watching on television. I even resorted to adding all sorts of strange videos to my NetFlix cue just to have something to watch.The long drought is now over and I can finally get back into my TV viewing pattern. Heroes may not…
The Wii goes NASCAR
No your eyes are not deceiving you that is indeed a NASCAR car with the Wii logo on it.NASCAR Nextel Cup Series driver Greg Biffle and his No. 16 Wii Ford Fusion race in the Sept. 23, 2007, Dodge Dealers 400 at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Del. Biffle finished second in the race, just…
Truemors – Rumors, News, Gossip and more
Recently Guy Kawasaki revealed a new idea in social news, Truemors. A site designed to share rumors, news and gossip.Some on the web scoffed at this idea while others just scratched their heads. The idea of giving away gossip and rumors for free does not sound like the web 2.0 way to me. What possible…
New WordPress Upgrade (2.3) Does not play nice with Google Sitemaps
One of the most popular blogging platforms on the Internet has to be WordPress. This easy to use (and free) software makes it very easy for the masses to create their own blog and post their thoughts all over the Internet.Though it may not look like it even HMTK dot com runs on WordPress.WordPress dot…