It’s that time again…! Sunday’s a good day to take it easy.
I’ve decided that on Sundays I’m not going to do any blogging except for a very simple post series called “The Sunday Special” where you get to ask me anything.
You can ask about me about web technology, WordPress, blogging, what I ate for breakfast… whatever.
I can’t promise that I’ll answer all of your questions, but feel free to answer each other’s questions as well.
I’ll try to answer all the questions throughout the coming week.
Simple enough, right? Go.
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What are your thoughts about "lifestreaming" as a practice and/or methodology either for personal or corporate use? Along those same lines, any ideas as to the best way to create a search-able archive preferably using wordpress?
i like google search, but it's not the best. there are some great plugins for making archiving easier and manageable…
in terms of lifestreaming, i'm really not sold on it yet daniel. perhaps i haven't seen a good example of it yet…? your thoughts?
In terms of lifestreaming vs. blogging I am with you, that simply throwing your content in one place for display to others without rhyme or reason needs additional context.
That said, with so many services out there being able to search the metadata from one's account on each one, in terms of where did I post that quote or that pic, or that link could provide a context of a personal journal and allow for better recall and reusage.
For example you post an interesting link on twitter. Then a week later, you realize that the link had info for a new ministry project that your starting. But for the life of you can't remember the precise search terms to find it in google and you didn't bookmark it. With a searchable archive you could search through only the content that you have posted and narrow the search down compared to the entire WWW.
Thinking about this, it sounds like a classic case for friendfeed. But for one they don't make a good widget to search your own feed. And two, we all know the dangers of depending solely on cloudbased services.
/My applogies if this shows up as a double comment ID appears to be acting up again.
I'm new at blogging. What is the best way to get pics? Now I just search for a pic at Yahoo Images. Is that wrong?
Is this stealing. Or are these pics posted for everyone to use?
Thanks a million!
take a look at http://bit.ly/3lHByM and http://bit.ly/qGwSY
Sorry another question, much more WP specific. Whats the best way to modify the virtual robots.txt file that wordpress generates?
That's a good question. I honestly have never really thought about that. I create my own maps if i need to… dang daniel, great questions…!
Remember there is a difference between sitemaps and robots.txt files ;>) But anyway, I did find this plugin
http://petercoughlin.com/robotstxt-wordpress-plug… from Peter Coughlin. I know a robots.txt does not solve everthing but I was noticing in google webmaster tools that the google bot was indexing a few files I really would have preferred it didn't. Seeing as though the google-bot is probably the best behaved I am hoping this will work. You can see what I created so far at http://danielcberman.com/robots.txt.
Daniel Berman
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