A little over a year and a half ago, when John Reese announced his BlogRush service, I thought “oh, c**p,” (that word isn’t “CaRP” :-) “one of the big boys beat me to my idea.” At the time, I’d begun working on a site that was going to be similar, but with a few key [...]

I just uploaded version 2.0 of CaRP/WP (an RSS plugin for WordPress) to my server. CaRP/WP works with CaRP to display RSS feed content, including Amazon.com affiliate feeds and YouTube videos, in the posts and pages of WordPress blogs. This version also enables CaRP/WP to work as a sidebar widget.
 

Twitter has a widget that you can use to display your latest update in your blog sidebar or elsewhere on your website. But it’s…well, not perfect. I found that it was bigger than necessary for the text it contained, and the empty space didn’t exactly enhance the look of my blog.
So I wrote my own [...]

Yesterday I started a new blog on a domain I’d been using mostly to redirect traffic to other sites. The domain name is “ToSeeMore.info”. The blog directory is “about”. It’s on a subdomain named “click”. So the URLs to the blog posts and categories end up looking like this:
http://click.ToSeeMore.info/about/how-i-got-319713-organic-google-clicks-in-a-month/
http://click.ToSeeMore.info/about/-/getting-web-traffic/
I called it “uber-optimized”, but it’s not [...]

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 [...]