13 steps

Want a cool custom wallpaper generated from coverart of music you listen to? Simple, go here and enter your last.fm username and the size of the wallpaper you’d like. Nice.

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Wondering why I saw less and less gravatars in the comments here (including my own) I logged on at their site and surprise surprise, no pictures. Both avatars I uploaded before are gone. So yeah, no wonder they don’t show up. If you’ve been wondering why yours are missing you might want to check as well. Make sure to log on with your email address in lower case and use your email address in lower case for comments around the web as well, that seems to be one reason for glitches. Apparently the whole gravatar site code was recently switched from ruby on rails to php so maybe something went wrong during that process. At any rate, try again… again.

Flickrvision, best timesink ever! Watch Flickr images get uploaded live and pointed out on a map. One could watch this for hours on end.

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Right here on the new Automattic blog for publishers;
We of Automattic recommend Akismet, by Automattic.
Wow, that’s such a pro tip.
They’re right of course, Akismet has pretty much saved blogging fom the clutches of spam, but that doesn’t make their ‘pro tip’ any less funny.

Wow, I somehow totally missed this. Upgrade time!
But first I’ll have a look around and see what themes have been created for it over the past couple of months.

Maybe Matt got tired of waiting for gravatars to start working properly again. Too funny, but Automattic (company by Matt of WordPress) acquired Gravatar and so now the whole load is working fast, and working period. So if you’ve had issues in the past months getting a lovely gravatar to show up; try again.
Bloody brilliant.

It’s alive, aliiiiiiive! This fixes the RC6 issues which was released the day before.
Read the news here along with what’s new.
There’s a seperate update package for those who, like me, have missed the RC6.
Keep your fingers crossed for a 3.0 any time soon.

The one problem with WordPress MU is that even though it’s billed as the stuff that drives wordpress.com that’s a bit of a stretch. Think more of it as the engine. But an engine alone doesn’t make a car. And so the MU users are left to scratch their chin and come up with their own solutions. Which is cool for those who are pros and/or run MU for commercial sites, but it has left us hobbyists a bit in the dark.
Enter BuddyPress.

BuddyPress will completely transform a vanilla installation of Wordpress MU into a fully functional social network platform.

Yippee-kah-yeah motherfuckers. Very awesome news. Check his site for how things came to be, a big yay for Andy.

How do you find interesting sites in a web where 99.9% is tripe from newbies or spammers.
I recently joined a blogger network. Blogs really are the Geocities of today for anyone familiar with how things worked a dozen years ago. The problem is blogspam, the amount of people that blog for money, who think they can earn a quick buck by copypasta-ing stuff from all over the web and posting it as original ‘content’. Even on BlogCatalog this much is obvious, and the amount of noise drowns out the signal, because who really has the time and energy to look for a gem in a pile of, well… dung. An invite only network sounds nice, just for like minded people who do their thing and enjoy the old spirit of the web. That could be a way to build a stronger signal.

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Here’s something interesting that’s worth a try. Getting links to your site is good and improves your ranking. So how do you get more links fast? Simple;
- Copy the links below into a new post (make sure you have the visual text editor turned on in your profile so you can paste them as links instead of text)
- Add a link to your own site
- Write a bit about the joys of speed linking or as it’s also called viral linking, and publish.
As I get pinged by your site I’ll update the list and add you to the current list and so everyone gets a boatload of free and good backlinks.
In addition to that you can also leave a comment here just to make extra sure I won’t miss the ping.

13 Steps - It’s Write Now - One Man’s Goal - Ryan Shamus - Terence Chang - Rich Minx - Slyvisions - E-Revenue Select - Misdo Club - Digital Lost Boys - CyberSurge - Technically Easy - How I Will Be Rich - Boston Brat - A Blog About Nothing - Heuts.org - Your Website Profit - The Dragon Project - I Am Facing Millions - E-World Vu - Allscm.com - Hiding-N-Public - Webd360 - Techie Zone - The Insane Writer - Olympic Blogger - Norwegian Photo Blog - The King Kong Blog - Bamboo Nation - Mobile Phone Geek - Boogie Mum - Miri Guy - Everything Finance Blog - Net Monetization - Groovy Vegetarian - Etienne Teo - Omicra - Komirad - Pro Blog Design - I Do Things - Fashion Style Trend - Marketing Land - Marketing Deviant - Blogging Tips - Rammel Firdaus - DCR Blogs - Don Biz Blogger - Groovy Entrepreneur - Untwisted Vortex - Mr. Baconpants - The Daily Fuzz - Forex Trading Blog - Zr5 - Cariboo Ponderer - Utah SEO - Queen City Hoops - Blogging Bits - Demp.se/y - Scraps of Mind - High Fivez - Poewar - Blogging Expertise - Escape Job Hell - Oil Offshore Marine - Smart Not Cheap - I Hate Your Job - Vegan Momma - Sewing Mom - Lillie Ammann - Life Snippets - My New Hustle - Mouseki - Chill Technology - SEO: Project - Blogging Mix - The Money Blog