Revolution Web Design Blog - Blogging

to all my non-geek friends (shameless blog promotion)

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:22:00 -0600

you can hide these blog postings if you'd like... i understand... they are not for you... and would bore me if i were you... facebook has a great feature whereby you can link your blog to your facebook page and draw interested web searchers that way. conversely, to all of my geek friends, you might want to try adding your blog's rss feed to facebook's "notes" system and see if help's generate traffic! i know that i have enjoyed a 280% increase on my Google Adsense payouts this month, and i'm looking to get that return to increase even more. why not. we have good knowledge, that new people in the industry want - more and more each day! good luck, im sure you will be able to figure it out. but if you cannot... here is some information that i found here at SiteProNews "5 ways to Import and Promote your blog on Facebook"

Import Notes
Notes is an application that allows you to create notes, which are almost like blog posts, for your friends to see. Every time you post a new note it shows in the public timeline for all to see but, many do not know that you can import a blog into your Facebook notes. From the Notes application you will see an option in the right hand column under "Notes Settings" to import a blog. Setting it up is pretty easy, you'll just need to enter either your blog or RSS feed URL. After going over the preview of an imported blog post and confirming the import you'll be all set. Facebook will then check your blog every couple hours for new posts. As I mentioned above, this is also great to set up with your Facebook page.

Seeing spammy type things in Twitter?

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:19:00 -0600

if so, you can find more information here on how to report those Twitter users to authorities and eventually stop this crap. basically you notify this twitter user "@endautodms" and make the message kinda like this:


@endautodms @spammyspammy is showing robot-like behavior

i found this information here on "The SocialToo Blog SocialToo - Your Companion to the Social Web"

facebook pulls away from the pack

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:39:00 -0600

as i've been predicting to all of my friends in the real world (yes, there is a life outside of the internet) facebook is starting to SMOKE myspace. i can just tell. the reach the demographics that its starting to pull are off the hook. here is a techcrunch article on the subject, and quite timely. its amazing how like a wildfire a website can find it's tipping point, and this must just be that that we are watching happen. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/22/facebook-photos-pulls-away-from-the-pack/

Tipping Point

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:58:00 -0600

so ive been reading (iPhone reading :) malcom gladwell's "tipping point" and its kinda made me think of this major social network tipping point that i think we are seeing. facebook is BLOWING up, myspace is DECLINING oddly, and twitter seems to be really ramping up. and not only because i use these services but people like my mother (no offense momma :) and her friends are using these things... thats a demographic that facebook NEVER planned on, im sure of that. just my .02c on the pile of stuff tipping this social phenomenon

Blog Button Maker

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:27:00 -0600

This is a cool little tool to make those nifty little blog button's you see on a lot of blog sites. Thanks to Erika from Cf-Community for the link: Blog Button Maker

Measure Map - Get to know your blog

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:53:00 -0600

Google's latest acuisition, and what seems to be cool new tool have been released in a beta format :) yeah, i know, beta format. The post of the news that I found was on slashdot, and the site responded VERY fast to my page requests, meaning one thing... and one thing only, in my mind... they have a nice website server farm and infrastructure in place, strong enough to handle a slashdotting! From what their website says, they can tell you a lot about the visitors of your blog, the influence your blog has on the world, and some other cool bits of data...

From the Measure Map website:

Measure Map helps you understand what people do at your blog, and what influence you are having on the world.

Easily navigate the numbers that matter
Track links to see who sends you traffic
Find out what people do at your site
Setup is a breeze it only takes a minute

Anyway, its called "Measure Map" and here is a link to their site.
You have to signup to be in the beta, the simple task of entering your email address in a form gets that done!

I'm feeding a squirrel?

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:28:00 -0600

Today I was notified and promptly submitted to, a new blogging aggregator today. It's called Feed-Squirrel.com and looks like its going to focus on Adobe (formerly Macromedia) technologies. Cool name, cool very thin GUI website to go with it. Anyway, check it out, its the squirrel.

Vote now 2006 Bloggies

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:04:00 -0600

no, i wasnt invited, nor was my blog. but maybe someday the revolution weblog will make its way into the bloggies! anyway, here is the link to the bloggies for 2006 and a link to my favorite design, joshuaink.com this blog the joshuaink.com blog has to be the best design i have seen in a LONG time. good luck, i hope you win.

BlogCFC 4.0

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:02:00 -0600

Thanks to Raymond Camden for yet another great blog cfc install. i had a few issues in my converting it from a quite early version, to this, but im done. now its time to come up with an interface again :) who knows what i will come up with, but i'm going to poke around, check out some sites, check out some ideas, and see what i can find. if you have any good ideas, or sites that have ideas... that are cool, let me know. thanks.

Google Analytics - oooh neat, I think?

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:01:00 -0600

so. i put this snippet of code into my blog code:

and then Google's new Analytics tool, will tell me all kinds of good information on visitors to my blog. This should be interesting. Rumors are that this is all Urchin related, I think they are not rumors, as the method called in the Javascript is "urchinTracker()" If you go do this on your blog, you can better analyze your traffic. Here are some of the things they can tell you: Snippet from the Help Information, Visitor Summary Visitor Summary The four graphics in this report provide a quick snapshot of visits to your site. Shown are:

Edit 1: There is also what's called "funneling" and "Conversions" so you can set a Start and an End and follow a sales process through the site. Very cool information! Anyway, we have all always had stat's services running, watching our logs, telling us information, but I'm quite certain Google's spin will be neat!

del.icio.us

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:39:34 -0600

so. del.icio.us its another new phenom, new in new to me. not new to the web. but like flickr. its a collection of peoples favorites. this time, its links. kind of a neat idea. ill be trying it out. i found the link on ray camden's blog, guess its part of BlogCFC 4.0. think ill be upgrading the revolution weblog tonight. :) fun fun fun

coalfusion.com

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 11:34:29 -0600

well, here comes blog diarrhea, prolly last one of the day. anyway, have you ever bought a domain name just for the hell of it, for the potential future usability? well i did it again, yesterday, and this one, will prolly end up being the url for this blog someday, anyway, here is the new name: www.coalfusion.com now, why? you ask. well, when i say "coldfusion" it really sounds like im saying "coalfusion", since the "d" is basically silent. and since coldfusion.com is taken, i figured it would be worth it :) there is another one that i bought last summer, that im hoping to launch a clothing line with someday... www.fucknerd.com kinda like a geek site with geek-wear watcha think?

blogging

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 11:26:57 -0600

man have i sucked about keeping this blog up to date. im soo freakin' wrapped up in coding everyday, and nothing really new, that i just cant find the right thing to blog about :) so, today, im blogging about nothing, and will try in the future to blog about more.