Archive for September, 2007

There’s a few bloggers commenting on a new widget called Blogrush, it’s a service that is supposed to increase your traffic by sharing links to relevant stories on other Blogrush users blogs and your posts being displayed on theirs and so on.

It’s a great idea and I expect it will work for a while with all the buzz happening but, here are 7 reasons why I wont be using it…

1. The rich get richer…

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please see here for the CommentLuv Plugin

(had a change of permalinks, sorry!)

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I only started this blog a couple of weeks ago, I started well and changed the permalinks to /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ which I thought was good enough but later, I updated my Stumbled Wordpress Widget and modified the date to put the post first on the main page. but, of course, the permalink changed. grrr, my stats showed that some google hits 404′d on the old permalink, double grrrr

I ended up making another post with the old permalink title and linking it to the new one. phew

then, on one of my (unhealthily) regular trips to the Live plugin in wp-admin, I noticed a few real-time hits coming in to pages that 404′d because I’d edited their timestamp too…I had to do something about it and that’s how I found Dean Lee’s Permalink Migration Plugin. Once installed, you can change your permalinks to whatever you want and enter the old permalink style into the plugin settings in the permalinkmigration tab under options and it will automatically do a “301 Redirect”, also known as a Permanent Redirect for all the old links.

Search engines will see it as a ‘proper’ redirect and update their indexes and you wont lose any page rank!

I’ve seen on other blogs that /%postname%/ is the best format to use, one place said that if you haven’t changed your permalinks by now then it was too late!!

problem solved, thanks Dean Lee!, by the way, check out his msn chatbot, you can add it to your friends and chat with it all day! I had a chat for 15 minutes, it was quite amusing!

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Madame Tussauds will be having it’s first ever computer gaming personality at their London venue later this month. He’s already been to Las Vegas (some say a clone is being used!) to scare punters at the Tussauds Vegas attraction. There, you can buy promotional items and stand next to him for photos.

You will be able to do the same in London too, I called Madame Tussauds but couldn’t get anything out of them about the exact date for his arrival, probably because they use a naff automated robot answering system that couldn’t be cajoled into revealing anything about the rok ‘ard character. You can visit their site and book tickets or phone the number and get bored by the automated system yourself.

The figure stands at 7′2″ tall and weighs a good 275 lb’s! It was made in London by 10 studio artists taking nearly 900 man-hours to create, using over 1000 pounds of clay for the 600 hours of sculpting, 200 hours of molding and a relatively short 37 hours of painting (he was never big on make-up anyway )

The figure is definitely imposing and will make a nice addition to the whole collection, maybe we can see a Mongoose vehicle in the future?? or use the Planetarium roof as a Halo shield, that would look so cool!

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I've seen a "You Comment, I follow" badge on quite a few blogs now and every single one that I've commented on has had them come here and make a comment about one of my posts, thanks everyone that has so far!

Randa Clay has a post about The I Follow Movement on her blog.

I like the css way of doing it, the one above was made with this code

It's a powerful thing, I've just installed the DoFollow Plugin and I'll be placing a button on the sidebar too. Follow the movement!

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I just stumbled on this page and gave it a digg, it's pretty cool, try to see if you can see it both ways

You get to see which side of your brain you're using today (sort of!)

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I've just been playing with some javascript to slide open a DIV tag, it's really useful for my HelloStumbler plugin because it waits until the page is loaded and if the surfer came from Stumbleupon, it slides down a small DIV at the beginning of the post saying hello and requesting a thumbs up.
See the slide happen

Pretty cool eh? lol, It took a fair bit of fiddling about so I'll see if I can update HelloStumbler to take all the pain out of it.

I learned it all at Harry Maugans blog, you can see the whole javascript here: Sliding/Collapsing Div

I noticed a HUGE spike in traffic last night for the Hide a rar file in a jpeg post, thanks to those whole gave me a thumbs up!

edit: I've also added a bit to detect if the surfer came via a Google search and display that instead. I might develop this a bit further and see what other detections I can put in there. That should be pretty easy, the tough bit comes when I want to make it into a configurable plugin easy enough to use for new bloggers!

Try this link to a google search for Hello Stumbler, click the 1st one down (or maybe lower by the time you read this) to come to a post here and you can see the google detection bit kick in when the page has fully loaded. yey!

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