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Annual Report – 2011

I thought some who have viewed our content may find the following of interest. You may have noticed that we place Google ads on our content (each page of the blogs and the “index” pages of our long format content). Aside from generating a little revenue (far less than the cost of purchasing the server [...]

Posted 06 January 2012 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Mark Quits and Then Pays For Diigo

Ever have one of those situations when you learned something, made a decision related to what you learned, found that the information on which the decision was based had changed, and then not been sure that you understood what you thought had happened in the first pace had actually happened? Probably not. I could have [...]

Posted 15 September 2010 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Blogging in decline among adolescents (PEW)

The Pew Internet and American Life project has a new report on the online habits of youth. This site is a goto source for tracking trends. The trend that concerns me – youth people are showing less interest in blogging. In 2006, about 28% of 12-17 year olds blogged. Now, only 14% make the effort [...]

Posted 15 March 2010 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Comments

This blog has some strange characteristics. One seems to be that few follow this blog as a feed and a good deal of the traffic comes as a result of search. I guess I am not certain why this is the case. Perhaps this is because some of what I offer consists of tutorials. The [...]

Posted 12 March 2010 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Google Docs to WordPress

This technique involves the inclusion of special markup that is called by the plugin (see above with last part of the document ID obscured for security). The technique works, but after experimenting, I now consider it more appropriate to WordPress pages more so than blog posts. The one situation I can think of that might [...]

Posted 19 January 2010 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Feed From My Reader

I have added a RSS feed to the sidebar of this blog (near the bottom to be less distracting). This feed offers the titles of the 15 most recent blog posts I have saved at my feed reader site. I am presently reading blogs using a self-hosted aggregator called Fever . Fever offers some interesting features [...]

Posted 19 October 2009 † grabe § General § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

A strainer for my aggregator

It is hard to keep up with blog feeds. I kind of run hot and cold on whether I think reviewing blogs provides me information useful to my professional interests. Perhaps I value the process of writing more than reading. Having said this, I am also afraid I will miss something. I have decided I [...]

Posted 11 September 2009 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: