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Re: Gmail's tasks reminder is a pain.

Tim Nash — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:32:02 -0000

Would you by any chance be using gmail in offline mode?
I've been having the same problems on the laptop but not the main machines.

Re: 2000 Bloggers and Hypocrisy

Tim Nash — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:29:28 -0000

You mention Matt Cutts if you look at the 2000 faces his is in there near the front as well!

Cheers

Tim

Re: 2000 Bloggers and Hypocrisy

Tim Nash — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:29:28 -0000

You mention Matt Cutts if you look at the 2000 faces his is in there near the front as well!

Cheers

Tim

Re: Akismet – the Danger of Collective Intelligence (and why I don't use it)

Tim Nash — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:14:34 -0000

About a week ago I noticed that almost no comments I made were getting through on many blogs, including my own a quick email had it sorted out, though when I asked how I triggered the black listing, I got no answer, though I think it could be down to regularly changing the name field I post comments under various names Tim Nash, Venture Skills, Vskills Team depending on the blog and subject, normally always with the same URL but sometimes a non personal email address if I'm unsure of the blog. These variants I suspect is what put me in a sin bin rather then URL based spam. Still its rather amusing to be blocked from commenting on your own blogs (well once its sorted it is)

Re: Akismet – the Danger of Collective Intelligence (and why I don't use it)

Tim Nash — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:14:34 -0000

Re: How to Force People to Read Your Comments Policy

Tim Nash — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:51:03 -0000

I like the idea of the comment policy being enforced, though perhaps a better wording would be "by making a comment you are agreeing to the comment policy found here" with a simple ok button I know it doesn't help people not looking, but you can't totally baby sit users if they won't read your policy then they won't read your policy.

Re: How to Force People to Read Your Comments Policy

Tim Nash — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:51:03 -0000

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

Tim Nash — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:36:32 -0000

Interesting points Andy I was in the process of updating my personal blog, and one of the things I did was to add no follow tags to my social bookmarks which are on every page. While I can see Jim thinks that this is aimed primarily at link farms how else do you describe a "social bookmarking" scheme, The occasional link into the network can only do you some good but why take the risk when you can add no-follow in seconds :)

You are not gaining any benefit in terms of search engine optimisation by using repeated anchor text based keyword links, which is what the Digg It style links are, and your user doesn't lose out.

Cheers Andy keep up the good work.

Tim

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

Tim Nash — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:36:32 -0000

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

Tim Nash — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:56:10 -0000

I chose a some what provocative title but this time I don't think it took of shame its worth opening a debate.

Re: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

Tim Nash — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:56:10 -0000

I chose a some what provocative title but this time I don't think it took of shame its worth opening a debate.

Re: StumbleUpon Quintuplet From The King Of Blogging Gobshites

Tim Nash — Thu, 10 May 2007 16:07:35 -0000

Thanks for the Links Andy, I really recommend using clcikheat and Google Analytics for tracking exactly what works and doesn't work on your site. A good example is advertising many people forget how ad blind Socialites (for want of a better term) are and therefore waste their prime spaces on pages with adverts that are not being seen. Instead that space could be better used providing more information or some other call to action.

One warning when heavily tracking sites, if you look like your reaching a popular page on sites its best to turn off any local tracking, as you will find your server load increased dramatically ;)

Re: StumbleUpon Quintuplet From The King Of Blogging Gobshites

Tim Nash — Thu, 10 May 2007 16:07:35 -0000

Re: StumbleUpon Quintuplet From The King Of Blogging Gobshites

Tim Nash — Thu, 10 May 2007 17:43:42 -0000

Bookmarking was one of the harder aspects to track, primarily because their are so many methods to bookmark a site, in many cases stumblers use their pages on stumbleupon as a bookmarking site. But from the stats more Stumblers bookmarked per 100 visitors then Diggers on almost every site. Their were a couple of exceptions but they were very technical programming site in which the reverse was true, but also the bookmarking rate was up significantly from the other sites.

Re: StumbleUpon Quintuplet From The King Of Blogging Gobshites

Tim Nash — Thu, 10 May 2007 17:43:42 -0000

Re: Sam Casuncad – Unprofessional SEO?

Tim Nash — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:25:17 -0000

Ignoring the fact the guy is a spammer for a moment, and hypothetically he was the victim, you mentioned OpenID wouldn't work and I agree, but it certainly would be one part of the strategy I would use, along with ClaimID. A combined use of openID from a single server and ClaimID would at least separate the comments made by spammer and victim, along with an explanation open letter you could quite quickly get the message you had been done out. The bigger question would anyone believe you?

Re: Sam Casuncad – Unprofessional SEO?

Tim Nash — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:25:17 -0000

Re: MyBlogLog API – How Far Forward Are You Thinking

Tim Nash — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:12:52 -0000

I've been very lucky to be playing around with the new Mybloglog API at Hackday over the weekend, though its still very buggy, I did manage to get some interesting data out of it. The documentation while sketchy is based around flickr's so if you haven't had a chance or not sure how to get started with API's that would make a good port of call in preperation for the launch.

Re: MyBlogLog API – How Far Forward Are You Thinking

Tim Nash — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:12:52 -0000

Re: Sphinn – SEM Attention Wars

Tim Nash — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:33:41 -0000

As a web site owner I love publicity for my sites, as a psuedo Internet marketer I can see the benefit of social media but I can see the flaws.

It was only a couple of months ago when we as a community were crowing over the fall of Digg to a small minority. For many in our community it was the proof that the social media site had indeed been gamed but not by us. Everyone cried out for need to never let it happen again, Digg suffered particularly because its nearly impossible to moderate this style of site, you can only automate the process so much (those of us being auto buried for using the S acronym will tell you) manual moderation also fails when the site reaches a critical mass.

But Digg has another problem, personalities determines what reaches the front page, or rather large friend lists, I digg my friends list (though I might be in the minority that I actually have a 'real' friends list) but some Diggers have 1000's amazing if you think that many of these Diggers are probably spotty teenagers who live in cupboards. Its interesting that the more well known bloggers don't have the same draw of friends in these mediums so when your use to being the most popular boy on the block what do you do?

well one option is to clone a broken system, one we know can't operate at critical mass, use personalities to push the system, and split and fragment the user bases of other systems.

Danny to his credit has actually tried to avoid this but it was always about Danny If I had created Sphinn would we be talking about it now?

Now I have nothing against Sphinn I joined more or less straight away I have started to use the system, making contact with my "friends" but I can't help feel some de ja vu coming, as the friends list grows the smaller bloggers with great content will continue to drop of the radar to be found by the few. The larger more popular blogs will while dominating the main page gain little after all the same people voting will already be their readers and the little guy who makes it to the front page he might just might get that first break.

I want Sphinn to work and I applaud Danny for trying, but it could have been so much more then a Digg clone and while I'm sure more "social tools" are coming why release something half done.

Re: Sphinn – SEM Attention Wars

Tim Nash — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:33:41 -0000

Re: MyBlogLog vs Blogcatalog – Differentiation

Tim Nash — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:46:10 -0000

I never really looked for a privacy policy because it just seemed like a business such as they are would be ethical, but maybe it is a good policy to have for everyone's protection on such a site.

Judy Andrews

I think you hit the problem on the head, joe average doesn't check these things we take it for granted, we don't read TOS but what if the company goes bust, gets bought out by a spam company? suddenly your details which did remain private are up for grabs.

We tend to only look for these things when it goes wrong, by then its normally to late.

Re: MyBlogLog vs Blogcatalog – Differentiation

Tim Nash — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:46:10 -0000

I never really looked for a privacy policy because it just seemed like a business such as they are would be ethical, but maybe it is a good policy to have for everyone's protection on such a site.

Re: MyBlogLog vs Blogcatalog – Differentiation

Tim Nash — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:48:30 -0000

oops meant to also say
Thanks for the Link Andy :) and as a side issue I can't edit my comments, clicking my name takes me to my blog :) clicking the text does nothing

Re: MyBlogLog vs Blogcatalog – Differentiation

Tim Nash — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:48:30 -0000

oops meant to also say
Thanks for the Link Andy :) and as a side issue I can't edit my comments, clicking my name takes me to my blog :) clicking the text does nothing

Re: Stumbleupon Algorithm Unearthed?

Tim Nash — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:01:58 -0000

I think it really needs to be stressed that this is my theoretical model I have no special knowledge other then literally hundreds of server and analytics logs. My volunteers who helped me were a mixture of my students, friends and bloggers with an interest in Stumbleupon. I did try to contact Stumbleupon to ask if I was on the right lines :) I didn't expect a reply and so wasn't shocked when I didn't get one.

But at my heart I'm an engineer it doesn't matter if its a car or algorithm I love breaking it down and trying to put it back together.

Re: Stumbleupon Algorithm Unearthed?

Tim Nash — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:01:58 -0000

Re: Stumbleupon Algorithm Unearthed?

Tim Nash — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:35:11 -0000

Definitely a key factor is also category/tags when it comes to how Stumble-power translating into real hits on a page.

Your right tags and categories are incredibly important but not regarding number of visitors but type of visitor. The tags and categories are used by stumbleupon to send targetted visitors those who expressed an interest in the category or tag, by explicitly telling stumbleupon (categories) or thumbing up (categories + tags). Certain tags and categories have a much larger following then others cooking vs webdevelopment for example and will attract stumblers with larger audiences meaning your chances of being stumbled by or thumbed by some one with a higher audience is more likely.

Re: Stumbleupon Algorithm Unearthed?

Tim Nash — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:35:11 -0000

Definitely a key factor is also category/tags when it comes to how Stumble-power translating into real hits on a page.

Re: Google PageRank: Joke Of The Blogosphere?

Tim Nash — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:40:21 -0000

To think I inspired the Matt Cutts picture by Mike oh well in for a penny in for a pound :) personally I think Matt should go with the grim reaper look though with a skeleton pigeon on his shoulder in homage to Pratchett and to pigeon rank the most sensible metric to come from Google.

Re: Google PageRank: Joke Of The Blogosphere?

Tim Nash — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:40:21 -0000

Re: Google PageRank: Joke Of The Blogosphere?

Tim Nash — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:24:59 -0000

But if we are without google,we WILL be down and out.Google and us should work hand in hand.

Why?
To expand on that..
a) why without Google would we be down and out, their are hundreds of other engines and services Google does nothing unique or different except combine them in a neat package?

b) Why should we work hand in hand with a company that many no longer trusts, Google is a huge company but it has to make a profit it makes a profit from you through advertising the only way to change its attitude and opinion is to stop using it. But even if every single webmaster, site owner and developer stopped using every Google service completely and all at once barring the webmaster tool team do you think anyone would notice?

Re: Google PageRank: Joke Of The Blogosphere?

Tim Nash — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:24:59 -0000

But if we are without google,we WILL be down and out.Google and us should work hand in hand.

Re: PepperJam Network – First Impressions

Tim Nash — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:56:52 -0000

The ISO standard country codes it's GB the term UK comes only when you are dealing with both Great Britain and her overseas dependence such as the Falkland Isles, British Virgin isles etc at the same time.

Given that 90% of cases this is not the case (certainly not with deliveries for example) you would use the term GB and then mark the dependencies with (UK) beside them. As for the US custom officials if they insist on erroneously using UK when it should be GB then perhaps they should use the full title.

End of Rant.

Re: PepperJam Network – First Impressions

Tim Nash — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:56:52 -0000

Re: 7 StumbleUpon Problems I Would Love To See Fixed

Tim Nash — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:08:08 -0000

My biggest request to StumbleUpon is stability, a Good example I was planning on doing a post on pimping your profile but in the space of the week StumbleUpon had changed how it handled images in profiles from none, to jpeg only, then PNG and then back to none it what appeared to be a few hours.

I can see progress is important but I would like to see them rather then push new features fix the ones they have web2.0 seems to be a new term for buggy code.

That said I still love and use StumbleUpon with all quirks!

Re: 7 StumbleUpon Problems I Would Love To See Fixed

Tim Nash — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:08:08 -0000

Re: Lowering The Google Red Flag – Sidestep The Cash Hungry Bull

Tim Nash — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:20:37 -0000

Just on the point of anchor text, UK accessibility legislation requires "companies" to maintain accessible websites. Most accessibility experts agree the general consensus is that an accessible web site is one that reaches the WAI level 1 and attempts to meet Level 2 (or in old money Bobby AA and AAA)
To meet Level 2;

13.1 Clearly identify the target of each link. [Priority 2]

Techniques for Web Content Accessibility
Therefore a UK business would be obliged to provide not only a search engine friendly link but more importantly a human friendly link.

Re: Lowering The Google Red Flag – Sidestep The Cash Hungry Bull

Tim Nash — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:20:37 -0000

13.1 Clearly identify the target of each link. [Priority 2]

Techniques for Web Content Accessibility
Therefore a UK business would be obliged to provide not only a search engine friendly link but more importantly a human friendly link.

Re: PPP or Pay Per PDF White Paper

Tim Nash — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:52:39 -0000

Hi Matt,
It's always a balancing act between reporting conclusions and discussing data. While I have no real qualms about releasing the data it would without terms of reference and explanation of each test be totally meaningless much like me saying the answer to the question was 4. Instead I choose to explain the methodology in enough detail that others can choose to replicate the experiments and then draw the conclusions if I had to explain the method, the results and the data as well as draw conclusions the posts would be pages long and I have neither the time or the inclination to do so.

Re: PPP or Pay Per PDF White Paper

Tim Nash — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:52:39 -0000

Re: UK Consumer Protection Unfair Trading Regulations That Might Affect Advertising, Links, Affiliates & Product Launches

Tim Nash — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:26:52 -0000

Did I hear my name mentioned:)

A couple of generic points which might be important but note IAMNL

Ignorance is no excuse in the British legal system.

Your honour how was I to know telling people I made 20 million pounds last year when I only made a fiver

simply wont wash

Second just because you haven't been caught doesn't mean you won't as UK business shifts more towards the web so to will trading standards efforts.
When in doubt write it down, I think it's a safe bet to be looking at having a disclaimer page on every site even if it simply states that the site has affiliate links.

With that I'm off to clean up my disclaimer policies and declare that Cindy is not quite who she seems :)

Re: UK Consumer Protection Unfair Trading Regulations That Might Affect Advertising, Links, Affiliates & Product Launches

Tim Nash — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:26:52 -0000

Did I hear my name mentioned:)

A couple of generic points which might be important but note IAMNL

Ignorance is no excuse in the British legal system.

Your honour how was I to know telling people I made 20 million pounds last year when I only made a fiver

Re: Viral Optin Generator Warning

Tim Nash — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:09:02 -0000

The tell-a-friend process has been around for a decade now
online, and is used on perhaps millions of websites, blogs,
and newsletters. It's not just the major players using this technology, it is now available to the masses.

If I asked you for your Gmail username and password, are you going to tell me? Is my server safe and secure? what if I was to hack your script so it did store the passwords? here is an interesting question, if I did modify the script and some one sued you how would you react?

Sure Andy, I would always worry about that too, but I think
the misunderstanding is that our claim is not that it keeps
"no records" (because as you said - everything online has a
record) - but the fact is, that our script collects no
records, and stores no information that is pit in the form.

You are aware there are a host of legal reasons why you have to maintain records, from data retention laws here in the UK, to CAN-SPAM and COPPA regulations in the US. Without maintaining such records you leave yourself open to law suit. So while it would not be wise to record the passwords the actual mail and information sent out should be recorded, of course then you get into the realm of data privacy.

Re: Viral Optin Generator Warning

Tim Nash — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:09:02 -0000

The tell-a-friend process has been around for a decade now
online, and is used on perhaps millions of websites, blogs,
and newsletters. It's not just the major players using this technology, it is now available to the masses.

Sure Andy, I would always worry about that too, but I think
the misunderstanding is that our claim is not that it keeps
"no records" (because as you said - everything online has a
record) - but the fact is, that our script collects no
records, and stores no information that is pit in the form.

Re: Ken Evoy Attacks Blogging & WordPress

Tim Nash — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:36:07 -0000

Hi Diane, I know I replied over on my own site, but thought I would add quickly that my article was aimed very squarely at companies over individuals. Just because in my view Wordpress is not suitable for companies does not make it a bad platform to run a business on. However even though the software is free their is always a cost, even if you are not accurately measuring it.

on SBI I know in my reply to you on my blog I likened it to a Cult perhaps that gave over a sinister unintended edge :) I like Andys description of it being a process when you buy into SBI you are buying into their way of thinking.

Re: Ken Evoy Attacks Blogging & WordPress

Tim Nash — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:36:07 -0000

Re: Ken Evoy Attacks Blogging & WordPress

Tim Nash — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:40:02 -0000

yes
In the late 90s the craze was something called nuke a CMS which at its time was revolutionary and spawned numerous clones written in a host of programming languages. The problem was every site using it looked the same and generally very ugly!

Re: Ken Evoy Attacks Blogging & WordPress

Tim Nash — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:40:02 -0000

Re: ePerks & iHype – Legal Kneejerk – Sues Blogger

Tim Nash — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:34:39 -0000

As per normal I am not a lawyer and no very little about the US civil law system. But I would hope Vlad will take a little comfort that they chose big statements rather then gritty details , by that I mean they are going to attempt to convince things like Malice rather then going for something which is less showy but easier to prove on a technicality.

That said I guess in this outing their lawyers are not on no win no fee, in the US can the defendant demand costs be paid in full by the plaintiff if the charges amounted to nothing or do they have to counter sue?

Re: ePerks & iHype – Legal Kneejerk – Sues Blogger

Tim Nash — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:34:39 -0000

Re: News flash: Flash websites still suck

Tim Nash — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:14:23 -0000

The saying about the bear in the woods springs to mind....

It is slightly worrying that people jumped on an announcement that basically said nothing new. The Flash Search SDK has been around for a couple of years now and Google implemented it some time ago so this big announcement is actually hyping up a pretty lowly modification, since flash still carries no semantic meta data of any sort it still will suffer all the problems it currently has when it comes to ranking.

Google has indexed SWFs for well over a year, this announcement means Google now has even more content to deal with and yet provides no real mechanism to help either Google or Developers with tools to assist actual ranking.

Re: Does WordPress need a search function any more?

Tim Nash — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:24:04 -0000

I think a) people don't entirely want to be reliant on third parties to provide what should be a core function, b) that many peoples contents not fully indexed or indeed that they want their content to be indexed!

For example a wordpress blog using a membership plugin,is unlikely to be easily searched using Google for premium content (unless they use a first click free system) in such cases they might have to rely on Wordpress own search system, which like everything else is pretty expandable and can be modified with plugins and templates.

c) I just finished writing a simple plugin for a client using our Your Members plugin to allow them to show the "premium" content at the top of search results something she could do with Wordpress but would be difficult to do with a custom search.

d) The information you can get through plugins like search meter not only helps you identify rough numbers of searchers (I suspect its a lot higher then you think) but also what they are searching for, which provides you with the ability to perhaps create hub pages to meet there needs or maybe provide ideas for an articles.

that said Wordpress search sucks there is plenty you could do though Joost did a good Improving Wordpress Search Article not so long ago.

Re: 2008/07/01/adobe-search/

Tim Nash — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:18:41 -0000

To really add to Andy comment, this is not a major event, a major event would have been to admit that Flash/Flex designer developers need to change their ways to develop Search engine friendly sites and to provide tools for them to do so. Until Adobe and Google agree a method of headings and other ranking factors their is no way Google can truly rank a flash file. That is of course if they can get beyond the fact a flash file is an object who's basis is time based while pages and websites in general are flat and interlinked these are two very separate objects matching them is not going to be easy!

Re: WordPress And PayPal?

Tim Nash — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:13:39 -0000

Blatent plug, but with Paybox being bug ridden to the point of non usable I had to resort to getting the team to develop our own Membership Plugin, Your Members the Wordpress Membership Plugin was the result

Note to Michael your welcome to grab one of the review copies just drop me a line and I will hook you up a copy.

Re: WordPress And PayPal?

Tim Nash — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:52:07 -0000

@anonymous. Sigh. Really now that is pathetic ;) but go on I will play along as the injured party, but given that the developers were Greek and reasonably well known it's unlikely I was the original developer of the code.

Nor is Your Members the same code a cursory look at the source code would reveal that they are not the same ;)

Now if your looking for an identical copy to Paybox might I suggest wp-members as a possible alternative. The main developer is a nice greek chap and it looks identical to paybox hopefully minus the bugs but I suspect you already knew that.

Re: WordPress And PayPal?

Tim Nash — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:19:04 -0000

@Dave Attacking? If your Dave Watkins then I'm really sorry and I will go on record as saying a huge apology my understanding was wp-members lead developer was one of the paybox developers calling himself Hitec and he is clearly from Greece ;) If you hook up with me via gtalk, I will send you some snags you may still have we certainly spent a lot of time with the original code so if your plugin is based on it then might be worth comparing notes.

As for the CNMs vs CNMS ltd we quite clearly state we are not Cambridge New Media Limited there are 4 companies trading on that name or similar I would say we been trading under that name for nearly 9 years though we only recently acquired our shiny domain. But it's interesting to note a similar comment was left on Wordpress.org after I pointed out that someone was promoting your product by pretending to be a customer which of course would breach the unfair trading practices laws if the company was British not Greek ;) but it was meant to be a friendly jab at what was a bit to obvious sales tactic which seems to have esculated.

But anyway if the owner of wp-members is Dave Watkins I apologise I made an unfair remark to insinuate that Paybox and wp-member were the same people. I also have not bought wp-member so made the assumption it was the same product based on the excellent demo (you put my screencast to shame) they have and on the error message produced when looking at one of their testimonials (So no one misunderstands the error was not serious and only happened because I knew where to look and would not effect most membership sites). It was wrong of me to jump to conclusions but given the recent spats on wordpress.org it's easier to see where I might have misunderstood there is certainly room for multiple membership management software in Wordpress and the two plugins and certainly no need for either plugin to interfere with the other. So as I say happy to offer our notes regarding paybox problems.

Re: WordPress Plugins Used On The Michel Fortin Blog

Tim Nash — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:02:15 -0000

Michel just for you I have coded up a quick plugin which allows you to specify a password on any post and then protect content by wrapping it in [password][/password] simply enter the password to see the content.

Download it for free:
http://www.newmedias.co.uk/free-wordpress-plugins/

It also integrates with Your Members (thanks for the link by the way) so people can run a membership site but also provide a method to allow non members access to specific posts or pages via a password/key.

Have a merry Christmas and let me know if it does what you want

Re: WordPress Plugins Used On The Michel Fortin Blog

Tim Nash — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:31:21 -0000

@Michel Fortin - Strange can you give a little more info, like wordpress version, also when you go back into the edit screen is the password showing?

I did it rather quickly this morning so did not test it thoroughly but will Iorn out kinks?

Re: WordPress Plugins Used On The Michel Fortin Blog

Tim Nash — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:13:24 -0000

I'm afraid no email in my inbox or spam box, its getting late and only just got back from Christmas eve party so perhaps not the best time for me to look anyway. I've tended to notice wordpress username password mails can take their time so will check again after breakfast and see if we can sort the problem before the Turkey is served.

Re: The Ten Commandments of Branding

Tim Nash — Fri, 18 May 2007 10:57:16 -0000

11. Feel free to break rules 4-8 at will if you think you can...

Yahoo, del.icio.us are just two examples of breaking the rules, some times a brand can be forged in the most unlikely form, a small penguin for example is now as much as symbol as the apple and windows logo, yet their is no definitive tux image still a brand is formed.

Re: Techipedia Redesign is Finally Live

Tim Nash — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:59:20 -0000

From a totally personal view try your logo in white or off white as opposed to the cyan/blue.

It just looks odd, can't put my finger on it.

Still nice though you know even though the titles sort of went wandering across the page I did like the other version. Also on the quibbles "tamar weinberg by Tamar Weinberg"?

Just some thoughts
:D just look at my site I am not a style guru

Re: Limit the number of downloads per client

Tim Nash — Sat, 05 May 2007 13:31:07 -0000

Very nice, not sure I would send them a 403, simply because if their browser caches it, then they may have a problem when they try to reconnect I would send either 503 temporary error, or 307 temp redirect, the latter being the more sensible if it then redirects back to the main page after a moment.

Just a thought.

Re: Some support/help for Akismet

Tim Nash — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:11:29 -0000

Akismet is also availble for Drupal
http://drupal.org/project/akismet

The same trick can be applied with the blocked IP's as well ;)

Though Drupal users may wish to look at Troll as an alternative to hacking their config file
http://drupal.org/project/troll

Re: Some support/help for Akismet

Tim Nash — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:19:10 -0000

You can do the same little hack you use here with Drupal as well as wordpress, though I would go with the troll module as it has more features and options

Re: The Ultimate Guide To Decoding Digg Speak

Tim Nash — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:49:54 -0000

IAMNL something I find myself saying a fair bit before ranting about legal stuff "I am not a Lawyer"