Thanks to a comment the other day, I was reminded of a another useful add-on tool I came across a while back, JS-Kit. They have Ratings, Reviews, Comments, and Polls you can add to your blog or website.
Seems like a nice service, and the designs are unobtrusive and understated. Would love to know if you are using this service and what you think of it.
We migrated two more blogs from BlogHarbor to PressHarbor last night, please visit:
who posted about their migration experiences here and here.
If you are currently blogging with the Blogware platform and have been thinking about making the move to WordPress, we’ve got the solution for you!
Disqus is another add-on commenting service, I guess the most famous in this area would be Haloscan… Dave Winer is now using Disqus at www.scripting.com, I’m very interested in services like this and Disqus seems to have some advanced features…
I am sitting here in room S219 at BlogWorld Expo and was expecting to see Om Malik (www.gigaom.com), Mike Arrington (www.techcrunch.com), and Leo LaPorte (leoville.com) talk about The Cult of Blogging but Om Malik “couldn’t make it” and Mike Arrington “forgot all about” BlogWorld Expo.
So now we are listening to Leo interview iJustine while interjecting with stories about when he was using The Well and lynx and gopher. Yawn.
If I had Dave Winer’s chutzpah I would stand up and call bullshit on this.
Update: Om Mailik had a bad back, and Mike Arrington said he “never agreed to attend the conference“, although he apparently did agree to attend as long as Blogworld paid his airfare and hotel but some signals apparently got crossed later on, according convention organizer Rick Calvert. Arringon says in his blog post “the first I heard about the event was early this week” but Calvert shows emails from Arrington confirming he will attend… Gotta love it!
I am here at the first BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas and blogging now from the “Blogger Lounge.” Should be a great couple of days, there are what looks t be thousands of people gathered and dozens of companies.
Big shout out to two of our BlogHarbor/PressHarbor bloggers (both started blogging on our BlogHarbor platform and migrated recently to PressHarbor, to our new WordPress hosting service) who are speaking at the event.
Matthew Cerrone, publisher of MetsBlog, is speaking at several presentations in the sports blogging track.
And Des Walsh, who blogs with us at Thinking Home Business, spoke at several presentations yesterday at the executive track.
If you’re here, let’s get together!!!
New York Magazine asks: What would it take to send the U.S. economy—and New York’s—into free fall?
They point to the following 5 threats to our economy:
Check it out. Via NJ Real Estate Report.
Now I love reading Jason Calacanis, but this post where he makes the statement:
Now, the fact that I’ve had a top story *twice* in two weeks with my tiny little 10,000 person a day blog speaks volumes for the power of TechMeme. The fact that folks who you’ve never heard of before TechMeme get the top slot 10x more than I do is EVEN MORE TELLING.
really cracks me up. You have a blog with 10,000 people reading it daily and you really think you can call that a “tiny little” blog? That is so out of touch, or I am really missing the satire (quite possible). 10,000 daily readers would have to put you in the Top 1% of all blogs in the so-called blogosphere, a fact which Jason surely is aware of, so don’t for a minute fall into the trap of believing that 10K daily readers makes for a tiny, little blog.
If you’re a blogger with a tenth of that volume, 1K readers a day say, you have a very large audience. For a blog, that is. The vast majority of your peers have a fraction of that audience.
We got an email earlier this week from Accordion Guy Joey DeVilla, who recently switched to our PressHarbor service after his blog got cut off from Dreamhost for “eating too many CPU cycles”:
Over the past couple of days, my blog got:
– Boing Boinged,
(http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/23/simpsons-film-refere.html)– Instalanched
(http://instapundit.com/archives2/009756.php)– Metafiltered,
(http://www.metafilter.com/64936/D’oh)– and Defamed
(http://defamer.com/hollywood/short-ends/no-tv-and-no-beer-make-homer-something-something-303231.php)and still I see no slowdowns and have had no tech support people emailing me to tell me that they had to take my site down. My heartiest compliments to you and the rest of the PressHarbor crew!
How’s that for a testimonial?
Thanks, Joey!
Zoli chronicled his move to PressHarbor yesterday in My Move from Blogware to WordPress. Lots of great info for anyone considering moving from BlogHarbor or any other Blogware-based service to WordPress in general or PressHarbor in particular. An excerpt:
Now, since I’ve talked so much about why I left [for] WordPress, I’m sure you expect a description of the actual migration process. I’m afraid I’ll disappoint: the migration was a non-event. I made the call, and two days later my blog was up an running on WordPress. Old posts, comments, trackbacks, pictures – Pressharbor took care of it. My main concern was not to lose links, trackbacks to old posts: while Blogware had their own cryptic permalink structure, on WordPress I am using the SEO-friendly title-based permalink formula. Pressharbor set up 301 redirects for every single of my old posts, and in a few days I saw Google reindex all and point to the new permalinks.
A great read for anyone considering a move to our new PressHarbor platform.
Airpress seems like a cool new blogging client: add text, sound, video, webcam, and flash animations to your blog with a single blogging client. (Hat tip Matt.)
Requires Adobe’s new AIR – Adobe Integrated Runtime, “a cross-operating system runtime that allows web application developers to use their existing web development skills (HTML, Javascript, Adobe Flash®, Adobe Flex™, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.”
A University of Florida student was tasered during a John Kerry speech recently:
I don’t have enough time to get into how I feel about that, but I just want to link to the following:
‘Don’t Taze Me, Bro!’ Merchandise Now Available
And of course, someone registered DontTazeMeBro.com:
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: DONTTAZEMEBRO.COM
Created on: 18-Sep-07
Expires on: 18-Sep-08
Last Updated on: 18-Sep-07
Beautiful statement by Jason Calacanis today:
… I’m amazed at how pessimistic the average person is. I’ve come to realize in my career is that the difference between people who gets things done and those who do not is this pessimism. I’ve always been attracted to the folks who say “what if we could…” or “what if you.” When I hear people talk like that I get engaged. When I hear “that’s been done already….” and “that will never work…” I want to walk away from the conversation. I guess that means I’m delusional on some level, and I’m realizing that the best products and companies out there are typically lead by delusional people who hire people who are very obsessive about details–but who are also dreamers.
What if you could…
Can you picture someone with a twinkle in their eye saying those words? Those are the people you should stay close to.
Best. Video. Ever.
We just moved Matthew Cerrone’s Metsblog from its home on BlogHarbor, our Blogware-based blog hosting service, to our new WordPress hosting service PressHarbor.
Matt wanted to move to WordPress to offer some additional functionality to his community that was not possible with a Blogware-based blog, so he chose to move his site to our new PressHarbor plaform. On Saturday night, we moved over 10,000 articles to his new WordPress site; Matt woke up this morning to find that all of his articles for the past 3 years were now in his new blog… He was pretty excited about the move, and his readers were very enthusiastic about the change, saying that the new site was “blazing fast”, “incredibly fast,” “superfast”…
Best of luck on MetsBlog 3.0, Matt!
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I just took Technosailor’s hilarious Self Importance Test, which lets you know which online “celebrity” you most resemble, and it informed that I am most like Chris Pirillo!
You are most like Chris Pirillo. You dominate your brand and do quite well in marketing it. However, you go out of the way to place the focus on other people as much as possible as a decision on power and authority. You may have many followers, readers or fans but you rarely let this distract you from your mission and focus.
I don’t know if I should be flattered or flabbergasted…