Discorax's House of w00t

I gave it a go. I was really excited about all the features and control that Wordpress had to offer. I created my blog, I stared to migrate posts from Blogger, I even started a new design. The kicker for me was spam. Wordpress just got so much spam comments that I just didn't see the value in it. Blogger seems to do a great job of keeping all that spam off of my blog, while allowing people to comment when they want to.

Unfortunately I'll have to live without a few really awesome plugins that I was using on Wordpress. The Wordpress Mobile plugin was extremely well done and did a great job of presenting my blog on a mobile device. I would LOVE to see this feature make it into the Blogger world. To be honest, it may already exist, so I'm hopeful.

I'm also going to miss the flawless code syntax highlighting in Wordpress. The bloggger version is a little clunky and doesn't work 100% of the time. It just takes more work to get things going.

Overall, I'm very happy with my Blogger blog and I plan to invest more time to keeping content up to date and providing new and relevant code snippets for my readers to use.

Labels: blog tools

If you haven't heard of Wordle, you should really check it out. Beautiful information design.

This is the result of the rss feed from the baby blog I created for my son Rogan.

I particularly love this result as you can see the shape of a tree with Rogan as the root and truck and all the little pieces of his life coming together to create a colorful and beautiful symbol of life.

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Testing Out Flickr Blogging...

I'm trying to see if you can blog multiple images in a single blog post from Flickr. So far, no luck. If I do figure it out I'll be sure to post.

It looks like I'm going to have to build my own solution to blog multiple pictures. It would be very nice if you could blog an entire set. Each picture in that set blogged in one post. Maybe I'll put that up to Flickr. They're always adding new features.

Labels: blog tools, flickr

Take this mobile Blog world!

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Everything above the line was sent to my blog from my cell phone. I took the picture, typed in some text and then sent the MMS to blogger and it did the rest for me. That's pretty cool service in my opinion.

I've really been into the mobile technologies lately. I think it has a lot to do with my hour long commute each way every day. I often find myself wanting to be productive but just can't seem to find things to do on the bus that I can truly consider productive. Lately I've been using my cell phone to check email, read my RSS feeds and Twitter (not that twittering is productive).

There are so many ways to connect with people now, it's almost to the point where I have to pick my favorites and just use them. The good thing about all these mobile services is that they can put all the content I want to consume and the content I want to produce in one fancy little convenient package, like my blog. I like that. I know that's the reason a lot of these services were developed. So thanks for that.

My next step will be to get a better mobile device. I'm still drooling over the iPhone. My co-worker Mike has one, and he likes it. I just don't have the $$$ to shell out for it. That means, for now, I'll keep using my Samsung SYNC for all my mobile communication needs.

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Testing out mobile Blogging. :)

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I posted earlier about a service that Wordpress had for automatically updating a twitter feed from the RSS of another blog. Doing some more research I discovered twitterfeed.com which is a service that does exactly that but is independent of your blogging tool. That's great because I use blogger. :)

I'm using this post to test twitterfeed out. I also set it up so that if you follow me on twitter you'll receive my latest flickr photos.

I'll let you know what I think of the service after I've used it for a while.

Labels: blog tools, twitter