March 1, 2007 at 10:02 am · Categorised under Blog
del.icio.us
A short tutorial on automating the process of keeping a kottke.org style remaindered linksblog using del.icio.us.
It is pretty easy to have a sidebar with a list of your del.icio.us bookmarks, but the purpose of this HowTo is to create blog entries with content. First of all you’ll need the following two files:
Extract the heisel script and rename the config file to “del2wp.config.php”. You’ll need to edit the file to give it directions on where to get your del.icio.us links from. I would recommend creating a special purpose tag in del.icio.us especially for blog links, otherwise all your previous bookmarks will be created as entries.
Once the config file has been edited to reflect your del.icio.us account, extract the magpieRSS archive. Copy the extlib directory and the four .inc files into a new directory called “magpierss”. Upload these to a folder on your server, preferrably where the wp-config.php file resides.
To fully automate the process create a cronjob for your server, for Cpanel this is in the cron jobs link from the start page, and enter the following information:
0 */2 * * * curl -s http://www.domain.com/path-to-script/del2wp.php
Obviously you’ll need to tailor the above URL to your site. This will run the script every other hour which means you never need to worry about logging in to Wordpress to create an entry.
Beware that the notes section in del.icio.us only accepts a limited amount of input. Therefore keep the entry limited to a few sentences.
· Posted by Utills
March 1, 2007 at 9:17 am · Categorised under Link Blog
34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog
I whole heartedly agree with these two: <blockquote><li> Too many posts (the post levels are too overwhelming) - 37</li>
<li>Infrequent Posting (or the blog is effectively dead) - 29</li>
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· Posted by Utills
March 1, 2007 at 7:12 am · Categorised under Link Blog
Flash Based Image Replacement Tool
swfIR ("swiffer") is to images as Flash is to typography. Nice clean method of extending the img tag.
· Posted by Utills
March 1, 2007 at 1:04 am · Categorised under Blog
Contaminated petrol caused cars to breakdown
Trading Standards officers have launched an investigation into a suspected batch of contaminated petrol that is thought to have caused thousands of cars to break down.
Drivers complained their cars began misfiring and losing power after buying petrol from filling stations … “extensive” tests [carried out] on current and past batches of unleaded, including fuel from affected cars … found no contamination.
· Posted by Utills
March 1, 2007 at 12:45 am · Categorised under Blog
The top 100 books by the Telegraph
A list of the top 100 books, noted by the Telegraph. Not sure how they came up with the list, A poll of the British public for World Book Day asking them the 10 books they “couldn’t live without” and here are the top 5:
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
· Posted by Utills
