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Re: Best Offline Blog Editors And Web Publishing Tools - Mini-Guide

mikepower — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:22:59 -0000

Not sure what you mean when you say, of ScribeFire, that you can: "manage multiple blog accounts, but not publish the same post to your blogs." I've used ScribeFire for ages and posted several thousand posts to multiple blogs and I CAN publish the same post to as many blogs as I have SF accounts set up for! Perhaps you could clarify what you mean? Thanks :)

Re: Add Multimedia Links And Embeds To Your Website With One Click: Apture Reviewed

mikepower — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:25:06 -0000

I tried Apture a while back but it was rather limited at that time. I have reinstalled it recently and I think it's a marvelous resource, if properly used. I don' t use auto link and only activate it for the specific links I choose.

Autolinking to everything ends up giving the same experience as the annoying SnapShots.

If you do decide to autolink you can disable it for individual links by adding the noautolink class code so the problem of downloadable media can be overcome.

I see the fact that you have to add the apture link after publishing a positive advantage. It forces you to consider the advantage of a link rather than simply adding them regardless, This, I believe, leads to more careful use and thereby to a better reader experience.

Re: Leveraging RSS Feeds and The Sage-Too Addon For Firefox

mikepower — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:05:09 -0000

Great to see Sage Too getting some coverage. I couldn't agreee more with your observations. I've tried all the available Mac RSS readers over the years, some very pretty, cool etc, but in the end this simple little extension trumps them all. If you want bells and whistles there are others out there for you to play with but if you want a usable tool for keeping up with the avalanche of stuff we are now faced with I highly recommend Sage Too. :)

Re: Improve Web Pages Load Times: Practical Advice On How To Speed Up Your Site - The Pingdom Report

mikepower — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:35:59 -0000

One very simple thing bloggers can do is reduce the number of posts per page. This can dramatically reduce page size when images are usually included in every post.

The other piece of advice I'd give is to get rid of all the clutter in sidebars (which has got worse with the popularity of 3 column designs and the proliferation of widgets of all description. We don't care where on the map your readers come from and we don't need to see avatars of all the people who've visited in the last week. I don't care what the weather is like where you live and I've got a clock on the wall so I don't need to use your nice JS timepiece.

And, unless you really are making more than the price of a cup of coffee per week, ditch the ads. For most of you, be honest, they are there to give the *impression* that your blog is popular enough to earn from when we all know that, with the exception of a small percentage of you, that just ain't the case!

Simplify! Your blog will look better and be easier to read and navigate.

Less is more, baby! :)