I’ve installed Bunny’s Technorati Tags plugin for WordPress. I wanted Technorati integration for a long time now and I even partially had it with multiple categories and appropriate tagging. But from now on all limits are gone. I can link to a lot more information on the web easily and I will get additional traffic to my blog. WooHoo!
Tag: blogging
What should I do?
Many people were asking me about Delicious recently. Some of these people are computer newbies, but others are highly trained IT professionals. I decided to write a small post about Delicious, that would explain briefly what it is and why would one want to use it. It seems that I’ve got my inspiration all right and after two hours that I haven’t noticed, I was looking at a rather large piece (about 10 KBytes, 1600+ lines) of text. And it still wasn’t finished.
While writing it, I also wanted to add few lines about flickr and Technorati. I haven’t done so yet, because I understand that it will blow the original article even more.
Now I am thinking about what should I do with all of that. I don’t want to pos the monster 10K thing as most people will get bored even scrolling through it. But I haven’t found a way to split it effectively yet. Probably I should add everything I want, reorganize and than split it into a series of articles. Maybe it will come out easier.
What should I do?
OpenID – free, open, and decentralized identity system
It has been some time since I was thinking that logging into all those blogs to leave a comment is lame. I guess this idea visits heads of many people out there. During the last couple of days I added few more blogs on my blogroll and started to think more about this problem.
My thinking was in the direction of some WordPress service. At least in the beginning. Something along the lines of Blogs Of The Day. Some services, say Blog Passport or something like that, that could be used by all those WordPress intallations to authenticate visitors. Basically, the even the same database table from WordPress could be used as a base. A person would login to at Blog Passport and than visit any WordPress installation and at any site that would support the scheme he would appear as logged in user.
But all I did was thinking. I didn’t even investigate if there are any existing solutions. The good thing is that I didn’t write any code. Because today I stumbled upon something that would be acceptable – OpenID. I first saw it at LiveJournal.com. It already supports it.
The idea of an OpenID is simple. It is even simplier that what I was thinking. It is a distributed system that authenticates against a URL. You can be logged in at any website that supports OpenID and than any other site that supports OpenID would work for you . The description of the process, the protocol, and the development status are all at the project’s website.
The good things about OpenID so far are:
- free and open and intends to stay this way.
- decentralized
- supported by some big sites (LiveJournal.com)
WordPress plugin is in the works. I hope that this project will get some attention and that we will finally have one annoying problem solved. Cheers!
MIT Weblog Survey
I’ve taken MIT Weblog Survey. It is fast, clean, and nicely down overall. And it doesn’t take a lot of time either – just about 10 minutes.
Whatever I can do to increase the knowledge of blogosphere… I hope they will publish their findings soon, before I forget what it was all about.
And there was great silence…
Either Bloglines does not update half of my feeds or this is the most silent weekend ever. With my 200+ feeds the only things that I get to read are Delicious feeds and posts by a couple of hardcore bloggers who live in a different time zone.
I understand that not everyone can shoot ten posts a day, like I do it. But at least one a day is a fairy deal. Don’t you think? Am I alone on this?