Tag Archives: RSS

Socializing a WordPress site

By Dougal | Published: November 5, 2008

For this week’s WordPress Wednesday installment, let’s look at a few changes I’ve made here on this site in the past few weeks. As mentioned previously, there were several areas that I knew I wanted to go ahead and improve in the short term, as interim measures until I put a whole new theme in place. One of my primary goals here is gain and retain readers. I want to make the site “sticky” by providing several ways for visitors to keep up with my updates, and to spread my links to other potential readers.

Of course, the first part of gaining readership is to provide quality content. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged comments, Community, delicious, digg, feedburner, Feeds, Social, social networks, stumbleupon, subscribe, subscriptions, Technorati, WordPress | 26 Comments

WordPress Wednesday Kick Off

By Dougal | Published: October 15, 2008

This is the first installment of “WordPress Wednesday”, which I mentioned in my previous post about making changes to my site. This first one is going to be a little long, and I’ve been editing the draft off-and-on for over a week. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged .net, app, article, Atom, avatar, avatars, branding, categories, CSS, Design, dom, feedburner, Feeds, Google, gravatar, gravatars, howto, improve web site, improve website, plugin, Plugins, Programming, redesign, Search Engine, search engine optimization, SEO, social networking sites, stickiness, sticky, subscribers, subscription, Syndication, Tags, Themes, traffic, WordPress | 5 Comments

Twitterings

By Dougal | Published: December 13, 2007

You might have already noticed, but I finally hopped onto the Twitter bandwagon. You can see my latest tweets in the sidebar (it’s the “What I’m Doing” section), and I currently have it auto-posting a daily summary here on the blog (courtesy of the Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress). I’m not sure if I’ll continue that or not, though. Of course, if you are also on Twitter, you can just follow my tweets with whatever method you prefer.

When Twitter first started, I didn’t think I’d see much value in it. [...]

Posted in Blogging, Community, Plugins, Services, WordPress | Also tagged alexking, plugin, Plugins, SocialNetworks, tweets, twitter, twittertools, WordPress | 26 Comments

WordPress 2.2 Delayed

By Dougal | Published: April 19, 2007

A while back, the WordPress development team decided to aim for date-targeted, quarterly releases, to speed up the development cycle. One of the main things this does is to give more frequent updates, but with fewer “big” new features in each release. The target for WordPress 2.2 was set for around April 23.

One of the new features in WordPress 2.2 is ‘tags’. For any of you who still don’t know what tags are, they are basically keywords that you can put on posts. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Atom, delicious, Feeds, Flickr, plugin, Plugins, Releases, Tags, Technorati, WordPress | 17 Comments

Alabama Tornadoes

By Dougal | Published: March 2, 2007

Many of you are probably currently familiar with hearing about the tornado that hit Enterprise, Alabama yesterday. What you might not realize is that my wife and I both graduated from the high school that was leveled in that storm system. Seeing the devastation in our old home town has been very surreal for both of us.

Our niece, who is a senior this year, was at the high school when the tornado hit, and suffered some cuts and scratches. Her car was also damaged, but unlike many others we’ve seen on the news, her parents think it should still be drivable. [...]

Posted in Family, Personal, The South | Also tagged Alabama, Feeds, Google, Tornado, Tornadoes, Weather, Wiregrass, yahoo | 9 Comments

An Air Miles Experiment

By Dougal | Published: September 12, 2006

Several years ago I went on a work-related trip on American Airlines (side note: holy cow! they have RSS feeds!). I don’t travel much, but on a whim, I signed up for their AAdvantage program. I got some quantity of bonus miles for signing up. Enough to keep me interested, but not enough to really do anything with. Then I signed up for some partnership deal that they had with MCI where I earned miles based on my long-distance usage. [...]

Posted in Community | Also tagged Business, Experiments, Feeds, Free, Memes, Travel | 3 Comments

links for 2006-03-31

By Dougal | Published: March 30, 2006

Emil Sit Â» WordPress ETag bug

Geof, Alex, Scot, and I have been looking into this Conditional GET bug, but Emil found the culprit first.

(tags: dougal_comments wordpress rss feeds conditionalget bugs)

Posted in Links | Also tagged Feeds, WordPress | 1 Comment

links for 2006-03-28

By Dougal | Published: March 27, 2006

Mercurial – Mercurial

Interesting. . [...]

Posted in Links | Also tagged Programming | Leave a comment

Zeldman on WordPress

By Dougal | Published: March 9, 2006

Web guru extraordinaire, Jeffrey Zeldman, has spent the last 11 years hand-coding his web site and RSS feeds. No more –Zeldman has switched to WordPress. Now I’m even more miffed that I won’t get to attend AEA Atlanta.

So, why did Zeldman choose WordPress? Not because it’s open source. Not because it’s free. [...]

Posted in Blogs, WordPress | Also tagged Feeds, PHP, Web, WordPress | 4 Comments

Feedlounge is live

By Dougal | Published: January 25, 2006

This is old news now, but what the heck — I haven’t posted in a while, and this will be quick. In case you didn’t already know, FeedLounge, that fantabulous online feed reader that all the Cool Kids have been raving about, is out of testing and ready for the world. It’s currently only available with a paid subscription, but to get a taste (the first hit’s free), you can take the Three Hour Tour.

I’m using FeedLounge to track stories from over 100 different sites (over 120 feeds, but a few are different topics from the same site, see?). [...]

Posted in Services, Syndication | Also tagged FeedLounge, Feeds | 9 Comments