Every Friday on Twitter, users on Twitter recommend other people to follow using the #followfriday hashtag. This sounds nice in theory, it gives tweeters a chance to suggest and find other cool people to follow.
Unfortunately, some people do it so, so wrong. Do you make these mistakes?
List a bunch of people without any context – This is when you tweet something like the following:
#followfriday @arandomperson @totallyunrelatedperson @someotherguy @someothergal @whocares @nooneispayingattentionanymore
What’s the problem? There’s no context. Noone knows why you’re suggesting these people to follow. Who are they? What do they do?
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First off, let’s get this straight. I LOVE SCREENR, and I would probably pay for it if it wasn’t already free. It is one of my favorite Twitter apps. I used to use Camtasia for making screencasts, and while that’s probably better for more advanced screencasting techniques, I prefer to use Screenr now.
Why? Because most of my videos were less than five minutes anyway (Screenr’s time limit), I never used any of those previously-mentioned advanced screencast techniques available, and most importantly, it’s crazy-easy to use. Just record and upload, nothing too fancy. And it’s all web-based, no software to download.
At the present time, there are no paid options for Screenr. Everything is completely free, but there are some limits. It only makes sense to have some paid features/upgrades to remove these limits. Here are my ideas:
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I recently came across a site called Clients From Hell and I’m hooked. The site describes itself as:
A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.
Although I’ve never done any freelance design work myself, a lot of these horror stories sound all too familiar, since I do freelance web coding and consulting.
Pretty much all of the quotes on their are priceless, but here are a few of my personal favorites.
An animation budget of $1200 for a movie like “Finding Nema” – Link
“The unicorns don’t look realistic enough.” – Link
“Can you make the blue match the color of the sky right now?” – Link
This one hit a little too close to home, sounds like a lot of emails I get from Custom Theme – Link
I browse it every now and then for a good laugh. I know it’s funny but try not to get hooked, it can be pretty distracting.
I’ve been using this SimplyMinimal template ported to WordPress on Leland.info for about a month now. A number of you have asked for this WordPress theme to be released, so here it is.
Download
The theme does require a few things to set up. Here’s a quick set of instructions below:
- Download the .zip file from the fat download link above.
- Extract the /simply-minimal/ folder and upload to your /wp-content/themes/ directory.
- Activate the “Simply Minimal” theme under Appearance → Themes.
- Once activated, create a page called “Home” and use the Homepage template.
- Create another blank page called something like “Blog” or “News” for your posts page.
- Go to Settings → Reading and set your Front page and Posts page.
- Go to Appearance → Simply Minimal Options and fill in the settings.
- Use the Optional Excerpt to control the excerpts displayed on the homepage.
- Add widgets of your choice to the “Sidebar” and “404″ widget areas.
Yeah, I know the download link is on Theme Lab, but that’s only because my hosting account there has a ton of bandwidth. This should be considered an “as-is” theme by me, and thus I can’t offer any free support. This theme has threaded comments and it won’t work in anything below WordPress 2.7.
There aren’t any links in the footer or anything, but it would be appreciated if you left a link back to this page so other people can find the theme, as well as the free XHTML/CSS template and PSD template versions.
Hope you all like the theme. Let me know what you think in the comments here.
First it was the DiggBar, now it’s the “hijacking” of Digg shortened URLs. Here’s my opinion on this whole controversy, summed up into two words:
Who Cares?
To be fair, it seems a lot of people do, but I don’t. Here’s a few questions you should ask yourself before whining about Digg.
Is anyone forcing you to use Digg or their URL shortener? You can use tr.im, TinyURL, bit.ly, and many others for your URL shortening needs.
Did you notice there’s a little “X” button in the top right corner that users can click to remove the frame?
And to all the SEO people out there: do you realize there are other things you can do to improve your rankings besides getting a direct link from Digg?
I wonder what would happen if Digg decided to nofollow all their outgoing links. What a firestorm that would create in the SEO community.
