Expert Texture
The blogged wandering of Robert W. Anderson
February 12, 2007 at 9:29 am · Filed under Miscellaneous
I published a few changes to my blog template today.
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.1.
- Added some plugins:
- Feedburner Feed Replacement
- Feed Locations
- Sidebar Widgets
- Ultimate Tag Warrior Widget
- Whole new template with dual floating sidebars (from the image on the left to the one on the right).
This post is mostly for me so I can remember when I have made a change, but comments are welcome.
Update: I can see that the sidebar padding is wrong in Firefox, but looks perfect in IE. Why, why, why do we still have to deal with these incompatibilities? Argh.
Tags: blog, blogging, Wordpress
September 27, 2006 at 8:37 am · Filed under Miscellaneous
Most of the time I lose track of where people blog. I only view posts in my reader.
I’m constandly reminded that some are on Blogger because their feeds keep switching back and forth between full and partial: Dan Ciruli, Kim Greenlee, Dr. Chadblog. I’m sure many others.
I understand the switching cost (I’ve done it twice now), but please get off of Blogger. Use a tool that works. WordPress.com is free and it works. Use that.
Please.
Tags: Blogger, blogging, Wordpress
September 18, 2006 at 3:21 pm · Filed under Miscellaneous
I have noticed a trend: a watering down of the term “death march”.
Robert Scoble is the latest to fall into it: blogging the reason his new show is delayed, he mentions that the PodTech Web team is on a death march.
Death marches (regarding software, anyway) are projects doomed to failure.
I’m pretty certain that isn’t what he means — if he did, I think Robert would be looking for a new new job.

Tags: blogging, Software-Development
September 7, 2006 at 10:15 pm · Filed under Attention
I guess I’ve been asleep at the aggregator. Actually, just busy driving a release; anyway, I see from Kevin Burton that Rojo has been acquired.
In addition, Kevin puts on his 20/20 hindsight spectacles to praise himself:
In hindsight, I don’t ever think Rojo was given the credit it deserved. Feed search in particular. In fact, earlier this year when Ask/Bloglines released their feed search it was pointed out that Rojo had been doing the same thing for months.
Just kidding you, Kevin. Congratulations — I hope this acquisition is good for you.
Tags: Attention, blogging, Rojo, rss