Just released an update to ReTweeter (1.1), which now uses the Twitter API for Retweeting. This means that instead of the traditional “RT: @username” syntax, the retweeted tweets will now show Twitter’s little retweet icon and the link to the original tweet (where it says “about 4 hrs ago”) preserved, and the retweeting user’s name at the bottom, like so:
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The 140 Characters Conference in Boston yesterday started off with three strikes against it, in my mind:
That’s a steep uphill climb for any conference to overcome, but it turned out to be well worth it. The saving grace was not just Boston’s always active, engaging, welcoming, and supportive social media community (as embodied in folks like @pistachio, Chris Brogan, C.C. Chapman, CS Penn, and way too many more to name them all) but also excellent editorial curation and content pacing.
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(Via Chris Brogan)
Editorial Calendar is an excellent new plugin for WordPress which shows your blog posts (already published as well as scheduled for future publishing) in a calendar view and lets you drag posts around to different days. Simple, clean, and just works (at least on the two 3.0.1 WordPress blogs I’ve tried it on – haven’t dealt with multiple authors, etc yet).
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So in this new theme for Open Parenthesis, I really wanted a lightbox / thickbox type effect on local images. This means that when the user clicks on the smaller images used inside blog posts, the “view larger” version is presented in a nice javascript modal dialogue box, with the rest of the page darkened. It’s a common effect you’ve likely seen on many blogs, and there are some plugins which do this, but I wanted it built in to the theme.
I found this post – Create Thickbox in WordPress With Just 3 Lines of Code – which seemed (and was) promising, but had to customize a bit for how I use images – basically to avoid applying the thickbox effect on images which are linked to external sites.
SixApart recently announced that they will be closing Vox, their hosted blog service, at the end of September. Earlier this year, Ning announced it would be moving to a “paid users only” model, leaving many communities looking for new homes online. What’s a site owner to do when free (as in beer) services disappear? Look for open source replacements, of course!
