Tech blogs are back

March 20, 2007 By

I just finished reading my feeds today and there are a TON of great blogs out there — I probably put about 100 items on my link blog. I wish I could put Widgets on my blog cause Google Reader now has a little Widget that lets you put the latest 10 items in a box on your blog (WordPress.com, the blog host I use, blocks most of them).

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  • http://spyder.wordpress.com/ Andrew Herron

    some more tech blogs you might be interested in – all aggregated into a company RSS feed :)

    http://people.ephox.com/

  • http://spyder.wordpress.com Andrew Herron

    some more tech blogs you might be interested in – all aggregated into a company RSS feed :)

    http://people.ephox.com/

  • http://projecthtpc.wordpress.com/ Grant

    You can use a RSS widget in WordPress. In the WordPress Dashboard/admin go to Presentation > Sidebar Widgets, then add a new RSS widget. Use the RSS feed URL from your Google Reader shared page. For example mine is:
    http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/09125226913164016368/state/com.google/broadcast

    I did this on my blog. See “What I’m reading” in my sidebar:
    http://projecthtpc.wordpress.com/

    I also did the samething with Twitter (What I’m doing in my sidebar) although since its performance has been slow my tweets haven’t been showing up regularly.

  • http://projecthtpc.wordpress.com Grant

    You can use a RSS widget in WordPress. In the WordPress Dashboard/admin go to Presentation > Sidebar Widgets, then add a new RSS widget. Use the RSS feed URL from your Google Reader shared page. For example mine is:
    http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/09125226913164016368/state/com.google/broadcast

    I did this on my blog. See “What I’m reading” in my sidebar:
    http://projecthtpc.wordpress.com/

    I also did the samething with Twitter (What I’m doing in my sidebar) although since its performance has been slow my tweets haven’t been showing up regularly.

  • Andrew

    The best solution I found to WordPress 2.1 stripping Javascript is to install Otto’s ScriptEnabler Plugin (http://ottodestruct.com). Simple and works a charm.

    The programmer hasn’t got anything about this on his website, but I found instructions and a copy of the plugin here. http://www.lifeaftercoffee.com/2007/02/26/put-javascript-in-your-wordpress-posts-with-script-enabler/

    I hope this helps, because it seems lots of people have been battling with this problem.

  • Andrew

    The best solution I found to WordPress 2.1 stripping Javascript is to install Otto’s ScriptEnabler Plugin (http://ottodestruct.com). Simple and works a charm.

    The programmer hasn’t got anything about this on his website, but I found instructions and a copy of the plugin here. http://www.lifeaftercoffee.com/2007/02/26/put-javascript-in-your-wordpress-posts-with-script-enabler/

    I hope this helps, because it seems lots of people have been battling with this problem.

  • http://egobsd.org/log/ candice

    So much data, so little time…

    Robert, were you a Usenet junkie in a past life?

  • http://egobsd.org/log/ candice

    So much data, so little time…

    Robert, were you a Usenet junkie in a past life?

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    candice: Yes!

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    candice: Yes!

  • http://egobsd.org/log/ candice

    The extreme feed consumption makes perfect sense now. Google reader even has ‘j’ and space for ‘next’ keys.

  • http://egobsd.org/log/ candice

    The extreme feed consumption makes perfect sense now. Google reader even has ‘j’ and space for ‘next’ keys.

  • http://blog.snipperoo.com/ Ivan Pope

    Robert, almost any other WordPress based provider will allow javascript plugins. WordPress.com has a religious aversion to them – change now and be happy.

  • http://blog.snipperoo.com Ivan Pope

    Robert, almost any other WordPress based provider will allow javascript plugins. WordPress.com has a religious aversion to them – change now and be happy.

  • http://www.centernetworks.com/ Allen Stern

    Aah – Usenet – now that takes me back – not as far as MUDs tho :)

    Robert – any chance you could add my site to your shared reader?

    Thanks!

  • http://www.centernetworks.com Allen Stern

    Aah – Usenet – now that takes me back – not as far as MUDs tho :)

    Robert – any chance you could add my site to your shared reader?

    Thanks!

  • http://christianburns.wordpress.com/ Christian Burns

    We talked about it, get a clean worpress.com theme and get a custom header and start adding some RSS sidebar widgets :) You could use a little change

  • http://christianburns.wordpress.com/ Christian Burns

    We talked about it, get a clean worpress.com theme and get a custom header and start adding some RSS sidebar widgets :) You could use a little change

  • http://www.jaysonjc.com/ Jayson Joseph

    You need to spice up the sidebar a bit :) I have another suggestion, what about removing underline for links? It looks cluttered.

  • http://www.jaysonjc.com Jayson Joseph

    You need to spice up the sidebar a bit :) I have another suggestion, what about removing underline for links? It looks cluttered.