Archive for February 2007
Sometimes for the heck of it I check out WordPress.com’s “Today’s Hot Posts” feature, just to see what’s there. On more than a few occasions the list has been completely dominated by titles that have to do with Brittney Spears or other matters related to pop culture’s obsessions.
So it’s interesting to see that Feast Upon the Word’s post titled “New, Limited Edition LDS Quad” made it to the list today. With all due respect to a great project, that’s not something I would have predicted.
The last time I observed something LDS/bloggernacle-related it was Guy Murray’s post titled “176th Semiannual LDS General Conference Priesthood Session.”
Just for the record, if you are not impressed, let me remind you that according to it’s own tally, WordPress.com has 709,818 bloggers. For that post to appear out of that many possibilities, well it must mean something.
It should not be a jailable offense to blog
or to insult al-Azhar University
or to insult the president of Egypt
or to insult Islam.
I’ve been using Bloglines for a long time and I’ve suggested it to others. It works very well. However, yesterday, after chatting with a friend about rss readers, I made a switch over to Google Reader. It was easy to export my Bloglines feeds to Google Reader. It took about a minute and Google Reader even preserved the categories of feeds I had created in the previous program.
I first tried Google Reader when it was introduced and I didn’t think the interface was all that great. Coming back to it now, it’s obvious that many improvements have been made.
Update: Lorelle On WordPress has some interesting information to share about Google Reader and how it is reporting feed subscribers. Also, Lorelle links to this Google Reader blog post that also has useful info.
During the past week I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.1.
It wasn’t as big of a problem/difficulty as I expected it might be. In fact, it was pretty easy.
Two problems I noticed - a) posts with multiple categories were showing up twice and b) an error message appeared after a comment was published.
Both problems were plugin-related. I updated the sideblog plugin and the subscribe-to-comments plugin and it appears the problems have gone away.
If you notice any other bugs/problems, please let me know.