Buckshot Ep. 10: Feedreading

3 Aug 2008 – 8:50
By adam | Also posted in chicago | Comments (0)

apophenia: knol: content w/out context, collaboration, capital, or coruscation.
Knol is something like a communal blog, it’s closest competitor is about.com, not wikipedia.  Actually, with author-based archives, shared categories/tags, and embedded adsense, it’s a lot like wordpress.com.  Given google’s attrocious splog record with blogspot, i doubt they’ll be doing as much competing as they think they [...]

Freedom of Speech has a new home

17 Apr 2008 – 9:02
By adam | Comments (1)

Torrent Freak: The Pirate Bay launches an Uncensored Blogging Service. This is great news. after the many altercations whereby wordpress.com has broken and muted both the voices of those it finds distasteful, and those who disagree with their policies, it’s great to see someone stepping up. Well, I’d be remiss not [...]

Migrating a WordPress Install to a New Domain

10 Apr 2008 – 6:57
By adam | Comments (5)

When you develop a site on a test server, it’s tricky to make sure that none of the old links get carried over to the live site. This tutorial also works if you’re moving to a new domain. While using a WordPress export is easier, this method catches everything, which can be important [...]

New Competencies for Theme Designers

31 Mar 2008 – 1:26
By adam | Also posted in design | Comments (11)

Wordpress 2.5’s new image uploader solves the longstanding bug of using deprecated XHTML attributes to float images (align=”left”, etc.), rather than it being done in CSS. This is handled by applying classes to the image when it’s inserted into the post, rather than via inline CSS. This is good, in terms of semantics, [...]

Graded.

29 Mar 2008 – 9:22
By adam | Also posted in design | Comments (2)

I wouldn’t say up-graded, but WordPress 2.5 is definitely different. I feel the need to punish myself thusly, since wordpress is now my day job, besides my ‘hobby’ of supporting the themes I’ve developed. I’ve been playing with the SVN upgrades for a month or so now, making sure my themes work. [...]