I’ve just posted a new page on Chordata called “Net Pulse News“. It pulls the hottest search trends from Google Trends, and displays news, blog and video search results based on those keywords.
Google Trends identifies the hottest trends in search — the keywords that massive numbers of people have recently started searching for. When big […]

I’ve just released a new revision of the CaRP/WP WordPress plugin that integrates my RSS to HTML converter with WordPress. The new version adds support for the YouTube plugin that I just released for CaRP. Using it, you can display dynamically updating YouTube videos in your WordPress posts and pages.
The videos can be selected either […]

You know that list of “update services” you configured your blog software to ping whenever you create a new post? If you copied it from the WordPress website (or any of a number of other sites on the web that have the same list) recently, you’ve got the wrong list.
When I say you’ve got the […]

If you’ve signed up for BlogRush yet, and have logged in a few times, you may have noticed something odd — each time you load the dashboard page, the shape of that curve showing how many syndication credits you’ve earned seems a little different. I’m not just talking about the part of the curve for […]

I switched my Blogger account to the beta of the new version today, republished one of my feeds, checked it to make sure it was in Atom “1.0″ format (yeah!), validated it at feedvalidator.org, and to my surprise, got this warning: “Self reference doesn’t match document location”. I checked the feed, and sure enough, the […]

A few notes about the migration of a bunch of my blogs to this one:

WordPress has a script that does a fantastic job of importing data from Blogger-powered blogs. I have one recommendation however for anyone combining multiple blogs. If you wish to put all (or most) of the entries from one Blogger blog into […]

Amy Gahran posted today at Poynteronline about How Bloggers Might Supplant Major News Organizations. You can go there to see why she thinks this might happen. Seeing her headline sparked another thought for me. Yesterday, I heard a comment on the news about how the LA Times had laid off a large number of employees […]

“I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if about 3000 weblogs suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.”
By now you’ve probably heard about the sudden death of weblogs.com and the roughly 3000 blogs that had been hosted there. I’ll admit my initial reaction was to […]

When you visit some people’s blogs, you’ll see a list of links to the blogs they read running down the side of the screen. How useful is this list? How could it be improved?
Educating the world on which digests are the most worthy to get a share of their time is one of the big […]

The latest issue to arise on the Atom syntax mail list could almost have been inspired by my entry two days ago: Should Atom handle today’s problems or tomorrow’s? The question is whether to create a group within or connected to the Atom community (or whatever standards organization Atom goes with) to keep an eye […]