Three ways to surf blogs at random: NextBlog! gives you a random recently updated Blogger-powered blog. random blog gives you a random blog from the blo.gs database (updated in the last seven days). RandomFreshBlog is my version of the weblogs.com version of NextBlog! that Dave wants – I’m using the blo.gs changes.xml file rather than […]
I’m not sure quite what it will really be good for yet, but this Comments API proposal sounds cool anyway. Comments and an API are enough for me: I’ll worry about what it’s good for later. The one problem I’ve got in terms of doing a dotcomments or Movable Type implementation is the lack of […]
Lloyd Nebres had a great idea, to take your weblog’s temperature by rating each day’s posts by whether you were hot or not, and then displaying a calendar view with colored dots that show at a glance how you were, or at least how you blogged, over the course of a month. Phil Ulrich took […]
Just to answer all those people who were asking last summer whether www.newsblogger.com, the Blogger/Moreover cooperative venture, would be back: only if you buy the domain from a speculator and bring it back yourself.
Among the updates in Waxy Backlinks v0.05 is the option to call it from PHP, as well as SSI. So now there’s no reason at all why you would want my quick and really dirty PHP script to show referrals.
From Kalsey Consulting Group and MT Plugin Foundry, a related entries plugin which gives you a container tag for “entries in the same category as this one” that you can use in all sorts of ways (Adam’s example is a list of the most recent three entries in the same category, displayed on an individual […]
Just in case I need this for something again, since I’m sure to lose it in the Movable Type forum: a plugin to keep Google from indexing blank comments. Make a copy of mt-comments.cgi, name it mt-nocomments.cgi, and don’t forget to chmod it 755. Download CommentSwap.zip, unzip it, and upload CommentSwap.pl to your mt/plugins directory. […]
I certainly hope that this is my final proposal for dealing with the fact that the RDF that TrackBack inserts into pages breaks XHTML validation. After sleeping on yesterday’s rather silly Javascript solution, I don’t much like it. Not only was I wrong about where the MT bookmarklet is getting the RDF (it doesn’t use […]
This once, and to a tiny extent, I disagree with Mark’s accessibility tip. Though for the most part it’s true that you shouldn’t open links in a new window with target=”_blank”, there is one time when you should: if you have opened a popup window with an accessible javascript link, then not opening links in […]
Per an email question (and so I don’t forget where it is), if you are using MT-Search and mySQL in MT 2.2, you have to make one little change in mt-search.cgi to get it to work. <update>When the urls for the MT forum change once again, breaking my newly-changed link, the fix is also listed […]