Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress’

Sex Positive URL Shortening Service

Posted on August 20th, 2009 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

That’s right. Sex Positive. Positive in the sense that you are not going to be censored for linking to something – which we’ll assume to be responsible content – just because it implies or refers to sex.

vb.ly.urlshortener

Violet Blue, yes, you know who I’m talking about, has launched vb.ly so you can safely shorten your NSFW urls. There’s also an API for anyone who want’s to tinker with the service or integrate it into their website or application. There’s also rumor of a Wordpress plugin, but I haven’t found it yet. If you come across the plugin, let me know. Now, go out there and link to things like there was no tomorrow.

 

My New Wordpress Woo Theme

Posted on July 29th, 2009 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

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I’ve been playing with Wordpress for a couple of years now. Happily. It makes this whole blogging thing a piece of cake. Not that I’m a shining example of a blogger, but if it were made difficult by a buggy platform, I’d probably do something else. So thanks Wordpress.

My biggest, and really only, frustration has been finding a free theme that would satisfy me for a while. In fact I had given up and was shopping for a “pro” theme. I even considered going for Thesis. You know, the one shamelessly plugged by “real” bloggers like Chris Brogan.

Before committing to plastic I gave it one more shot looking for a freebie theme. It’s always worth trying one more time before giving in, and that’s when I found WooThemes. Though I always new they were there, I was overwhelmed by all the options for Wordpress themes.

WooThemes, in addition to their selection of well designed and full featured themes, offers a few themes for free. Thank you Woo Themes.

Very smart of them. I’m seriously considering paying for a theme from them in the near future since they have earned my trust with their freebie.

WooThemes | Premium WordPress Themes.

 

Briefly Connected

Posted on April 18th, 2009 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

My social Network on Flickr, Facebook, Twitter...
Image by luc legay via Flickr

Here’s a quick outline of the online tools I’m currently using. I’ve started, stopped, wiped out, and started this blog several times over the course of about 4 years. Don’t think that means that I’ve figured out the perfect toolset or that I even have a real handle on what this blog is about. It’s still very much about my online life in the sense that I collect things and share them here online, some found, and some created. I’m not here to provide an authoritarian voice about the Web, but I am here to share some, just some, of the things I find of interest.

While I have a couple of dozen accounts for online services, many of them were created just to try them out and are now lingering. How many millions of account profiles are out there not being used? So here’s a list of my primary online services and how I’m using them.

Wordpress
- Blog where I post items I want to share, and use as a record for a later date.

Zemanta

- The Zemanta plugin for Wordpress suggest images, tags, links, and related posts. I can write a couple of sentances and Zemanta will recommend images, tags, etc., helping round out the context of my topic.

Flickr
- Photos I want to share publicly. The Zemanta plugin will find recommendations here within my Flickr photos as well as photos from other sources.

Twitter
- I have two accounts on Twitter, which I suspect will become one account soon. @mediarosa with over 2,000 friends currently, and @Jamie_T which I limit to friends and family and to feed my Facebook status. See Hootsuite and Twitter to Facebook below to see how that works.

Facebook
- Yeah, the obligatory Facebook page, with a schizophrenic mix of friends, family, and work related connections.

Hootsuite
I use hootsuite to post to both of my Twitter accounts and to shorten URL’s. Hootsuite also pulls from the rss feed on mediarosa.com to create a new Tweet.

Twitter to Facebook
- This Facebook application takes my Twitter updates from @Jamie_T and re-posts them as my Facebook status updates.

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