WordPress Plugins: Wish list

I stumbled across a brave WordPress coder who has actually posted an open request for suggested plugins. Here’s my contribution: Here’s a thought. It seems CRAZY that the world is full of people downloading WP plugins from one server only to re-upload them to...

ctrl-ault-del » Blog Archive » Salon and Technorati

Salon now features Technorati trackers that tell you who is blogging in response to any given Salon story. This would be a great feature for lots of sites, and while I can imagine some workarounds that would allow sites to effectively achieve this, the…

Quick Online Tips: The Great Flickr Tools Collection

The Great Flickr Tools Collection: From Quick Online Tips — the people who brought the world the del.icio.us tools collection — an equally fabulous collection of tools to make your all-Flickr lifestyle that much better. Flickr is a terrific photo sha…

More kudos for Feedster

Another great discovery: Feedster lets you create a feed based on a search that is limited to the feeds listed within a given OPML file. An OPML file is better known as a blogroll — basically list of RSS subscriptions (such as the one created by Bloglines when...

Tag-friendly Feedster

Since Technorati does not yet provide RSS feeds on its tag pages, I’ve been looking for an alternate way of subscribing to RSS feeds for particular blog categories/tags (the way I subscribe to del.icio.us tag feeds). The happy discovery is that Feedster supports...

South African Blogs

Africa is blogging, too. South Africa is leading the way, with more than 3 million unique users visiting South African blogs every month. High profile South African blogs include Commentary – which focuses on topics like race relations and economics – and Human vs. Nature, an earnest environmental issues weblog. The country […]

A living experiment in online collaboration

The blogiverse is having fun with Just Letters, a little flash game that is a great living experiment in online collaboration. All you need is your browser, so go check it out!

Just Letters is an interesting window on how people can work together when the demands of collaboration are low enough, even if the apparent […]

One Damn Thing After Another

Rob Cottingham's blog, a terrific and wry source of info and analysis on Canadian politics. <i>Full disclosure: he's not only a brilliant speechwriter and political commentator, he's also my husband.</i>

Blogging for Social Capital

Elizabeth Albrycht’s latest article at Blogging Planet, Collaboration Requires Contribution, provides a nice exploration of how blogging might enhance social capital. Her article includes a number of specific pieces of advice for how companies can use blogs to build community, and draws the connection between active participation in online content creation, and the development of […]