Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

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WPVote.com Re-launched!

Remember the website Jean-Baptise Jung started called WPVote.com? During mid-2009, WPVote.com was the talk amongst WordPress bloggers. Why? Because it was a site built with the WordPress core as a digg-like site. This was a break through for those who were still doubtful of the power of WordPress as a CMS.
When Jean-Baptiste did not have [...]

I hang out a lot in AboutUs’s chatroom where I help with pro follows, creating articles and adding tags. Sometimes, I find some really cool people who are promoting their websites. Today, I found one such individual and I asked them to send me an intro about their site so I could post it to [...]

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After Lawsuit Threat, LyricWiki Is With Wikia

A recent article in The Register called US music publishers sue online lyrics sites. TechDirt also covered this in their article Music Publishers Now Suing Lyrics Sites And Their Execs. One of the sites included was LyricWiki. Basically this lawsuit would shove the site in with those who burn and sell music without a license.
Also, [...]

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Wiki adminning: Different strategies to deal with conflicts

We’ve been busy watching our recent changes on Fan History. An incident recently came up and we had a fair amount of behind the scenes discussion on how to handle it. After exploring our possible actions, we analyzed where our desires to take these actions came from. They can best be summarized as follows:
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yourwiki.net

I love irc. I love irc.freenode.net. There are a number of wiki related chat rooms on there and a month or so ago, an acquaintence introduced me to yourwiki.net. It is a wiki hosting company that is run by a couple of friends. At the moment, they are pretty small and [...]

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WP Addict is open!

Yep! Another WordPress related site. I bet you are either:
1. Rolling your eyes because you think you have seen or read it all.
2. Excited to see another WordPres-related site
3. Neither here, nor there, but you are interested.
Hopefully WPAddict will answer anything you need. If you cannot find it here, perhaps try the WordPress support forums. [...]

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Facebook Feed Changes, Eliciting Negative Feedback

Recently Facebook rolled out their new feeds, yep, feeds as in more than 1. One is the Live Feed which is somewhat like the old stream except you are informed of your friends following others and what they became a friend of. The other is the News Feed that publishes popular posts, at least for [...]

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SEO advice: Commenting on blogs

This topic came up on site-reference.com and it is a common topic for people looking to improve SEO. It is important to know about because if you’re running a fansite or fan fiction archive and wanting to learn SEO through link building, this method is probably one of the first one’s you’ll see.
Commenting on blogs [...]

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Myths about Fan History’s deletion policies

I don’t handle deletion requests anymore. (1) I do listen to our admins who deal with them. A couple of issues have come up. People have been contacting Fan History with misinformation regarding deletion requests. (2) So this post is designed to clear that up.
Fan History won’t honor deletion requests posted!
This is false. Fan History [...]

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A lament for Fandom on MSN Groups

I’ve been blogging about the pending demise of MSN Groups, and some about the replacements – most specifically Multiply and Windows Live Groups. Multiply because it is the chosen replacement for MSN Groups, and Windows Live Groups since it is Microsoft’s own answer to MSN groups.
So far nothing has come close to the versatility and [...]