Sunday Snippets 2008-11-16

I am still working on a list of the top WordPress plugins but I guess that is ok since they have not released WordPress 2.7 yet. I had no idea that there were so many of these plugins.

Open Comments

Comments are open on this blog now. No name or email address required. After opening comments, comment rates have increased, but oddly enough none of them have been anonymous. I did notice one person decided to skip the email and web-site fields. The funny thing is the email address is never made public anyway. It is just used for follow-ups.

Commenting is good for you

Entering your web-address/blog in your comment creates a link back to your site. That link moves you a little higher in the results of anyone that searches a keyword used on your sites, which increases your odds of finding friends with common interests. Of course, commenting on some blogs help more than others. The more traffic the site is getting, the more valuable the link from that site, unless the site is using a no-follow tag, in which case it doesn’t help much at all. This blog does not use the no-follow tag and so getting a link from here is very helpful.

Quote of the Week

I’ll never be eaten by alligators again.

A reply on facebook

My twitter updates are automatically copied over to facebook and occasionally people will respond there instead of on twitter. Here is one from this week.

Facebook reply to the Tweet: The story is more more powerful than the facts.

Darrell A. Harrisand sometimes, vice-versa~

Luke GedeonSometimes… but not these times. The days of “the fact” are quickly fading… only to return in the midst of a great war on domestic soil. Until then the great storytellers will rule the world.

Twitter:

	lgedeon I decided to experiment with allowing anonymous comments on my blog today. Comment frequency has increased but none have been anonymous. ??? 7:16 PM Nov 15th from TwitKit
	lgedeon @jimthomason I love that plan! I do it with many objects, but glasses are great. How do you see to find your glasses w/o glasses on to see? 3:38 PM Nov 15th from TwitKit in reply to jimthomason
	jimthomason I have a new exercise program; running up and down the stairs at home looking for where I put my glasses. 3:22 PM Nov 15th from web
	lgedeon I am so glad my mind is attached…. otherwise I would have lost it. Oh wait you can’t lose what you never had, so I’m good. 10:20 PM Nov 14th from TwitKit
	jamesdickey “Daddy, why do you always skip commercials? I like commercials, because you might see something you don’t already have.” I am in trouble! 9:50 PM Nov 14th from web
	lgedeon @jabancroft Wow! you must have really good ears. 🙂 11:42 AM Nov 14th from TwitKit in reply to jabancroft
	jabancroft OH: “We shouldn’t be colliding with another galaxy. That’s just sloppy management. Who’s looking into this?” 11:39 AM Nov 14th from twitterrific
	lgedeon @MariSmith Commented on: http://is.gd/7je6 Very interesting question. 11:38 AM Nov 14th from TwitKit in reply to MariSmith
	MariSmith Want to win a *NEW* MariSmith.com blue light-up pen?! Make a comment on this post then tweet me that you did! http://is.gd/7je6 11:15 AM Nov 14th from EasyTweets
	lgedeon I would rather starve than decide what to eat. 10:52 AM Nov 14th from TwitKit
	lgedeon @sondernagle Oh… I thought that sound was me kicking a tea cup and spilling it all over the floor. 11:32 PM Nov 13th from TwitKit in reply to sondernagle
	sondernagle That sound you just heard? That was @garyvee breaking something. 11:30 PM Nov 13th from twalala
	lgedeon Twitter API documentation is in a PBWiki. 🙂 11:01 PM Nov 13th from TwitKit
	lgedeon Just discovered http://friendorfollow.com/ and found out I was not following some people I thought I was. 2:29 PM Nov 11th from TwitKit
	lgedeon Why can’t our kids be allergic to sugar instead? 11:33 AM Nov 11th from TwitKit
	lgedeon I love two-finger scroll! Instantly usefull, and I keep finding new uses. 9:29 AM Nov 11th from TwitKit
	lgedeon Also who are the best Asia Twitter users? People in or talking about China, Korea, Japan, Tiawan, Tibet, Nepal, India, Singapore, Thailand? 8:26 AM Nov 11th from TwitKit
	lgedeon Anybody know of some New Englanders, I should be following? 8:19 AM Nov 11th from TwitKit
	lgedeon OH: Typos in Twitter are called “Twypos” 🙂 11:20 PM Nov 9th from web
	lgedeon @bjepson Cool! It worked. Now I wonder… If you can figure out a work around why can’t @twitter make it work right in the first place? 11:15 PM Nov 9th from web in reply to bjepson

	lgedeon @pamslim Yes, actually. Today was an usually ordinary and uneventful day. That makes it a “bizarre” day for me. 🙂 10:47 PM Nov 13th from TwitKit in reply to pamslim
	pamslim today was a massively whack full moon day. anyone else have bizarre things happen? 10:43 PM Nov 13th from web
	KyleFlaherty See folks, got to keep the faith with the Pats. #patsjets. Only a FG away. 10:40 PM Nov 13th from TweetDeck
	lgedeon @mattgillooly better be careful that could come back to sting you someday. 🙂 10:28 PM Nov 13th from TwitKit in reply to mattgillooly
	lgedeon Embarrassed, but excited! to say that I just discovered what cURL does. 10:26 PM Nov 13th from TwitKit
	mattgillooly just convinced my sister that there’s a restaurant in Providence that servers a burger made from ground-up bees. 10:16 PM Nov 13th from twalala
	lgedeon @adamjt I feel your pain. 9:49 PM Nov 13th from TwitKit in reply to adamjt
	adamjt Why I hate MS: I’m still working on a server issue that’s been vexing me for days, and which would be easy to fix if not for the registry. 9:46 PM Nov 13th from Socialthing!
	lgedeon @maurilio tell her the twitosphere says hello her too. 🙂 9:34 PM Nov 13th from TwitKit in reply to maurilio
	lgedeon @MariSmith I am not sure that was the link you meant to send. It tried to open wp-admin. 9:28 PM Nov 13th from TwitKit in reply to MariSmith
	maurilio Caught looking at Twitter and my non-twittering friend was offended. “I’m going to shove this twitter up your . . . ” 9:20 PM Nov 13th from twitterrific
	MariSmith Want to win a *NEW* MariSmith.com blue light-up pen?! Make a comment on this post http://is.gd/7jf4 then tweet me that you did! 9:15 PM Nov 13th from EasyTweets
	lgedeon hmm… let me restate that: The fact of the matter is “the story” is more powerful than the facts. If you’re saying, Duh: sorry, I’m slow. 8:59 PM Nov 13th from TwitKit
	lgedeon The story is more powerful than the facts 8:48 PM Nov 13th from TwitKit
	HelloKit boss just doesn’t get it. wants a new anti-virus because this one finds too many viruses. 8:53 AM Nov 13th from TwitterFox
	lgedeon @danschawbel The danger of being really cool, like the marketing guys were 20 years ago, is that you get arrogant and stop learning. 1:23 PM Nov 11th from TwitKit in reply to danschawbel
	cspenn Chuckling at the revelation that Framingham, MA is the source of “Ice Mountain” bottled water by Nestle, straight from MWRA tap water. 1:20 PM Nov 11th from TweetDeck
	danschawbel 80% of marketing executives haven’t been using this web 2.0 stuff 😉 http://tinyurl.com/6367uv 1:17 PM Nov 11th from web

alfredtwo @lgedeon You’re right. Homeschoolers have a lot more options to experiment. Plus they can decide quickly if something is or is not working. 1:16 PM Nov 11th from twhirl in reply to lgedeon

	lgedeon @alfredtwo we teach social media, but we homeschool, and homeschoolers are always ahead of the curve. 1:15 PM Nov 11th from TwitKit in reply to alfredtwo
	alfredtwo why aren’t schools teaching social media http://snurl.com/5br5y I’m pretty sure that some are. 12:57 PM Nov 11th from twhirl
	lgedeon @sondernagle If you are on 10.5.4 you can also set it to do a two-finger click instead of ctrl-click. 11:42 AM Nov 11th from TwitKit in reply to sondernagle
	sondernagle @lgedeon I keep forgetting about it. Need a two finger salute sticker or something for my MacBook. 11:34 AM Nov 11th from twhirl in reply to lgedeon
	lgedeon @MichaelHyatt My favorite recession benefit: Lower gas prices. 🙂 8:46 AM Nov 11th from TwitKit in reply to MichaelHyatt
	MichaelHyatt I just posted “10 Benefits of a Recession.” What can you add to the list? http://bit.ly/zFaW 8:43 AM Nov 11th from TweetDeck
	lgedeon @adarowski @twitter management seems almost arrogant enough to use Vista and IE only. 8:36 AM Nov 11th from web in reply to adarowski
	lgedeon @adarowski re: twitter is a rails shop: Thanks, I was actually curious about the OS and browser they use on their desk/laptop not the server 8:33 AM Nov 11th from web in reply to adarowski
	lgedeon @simplebits 8:30 EST what timezone are you looking for? 8:27 AM Nov 11th from TwitKit in reply to simplebits
	simplebits Uh, what time is it? #jetlag 8:22 AM Nov 11th from web
	lgedeon I just realized I am not following enough people. 8:18 AM Nov 11th from TwitKit