Category — Weblogs

For those stalkers in the crowd who are interested in following all my digital footprints, check out the my lifestream over at kevindonahue.me.

170 Spoons
Originally uploaded by orangejack.

If you're looking for a great new resource for tech tips and tutorials that are easy to understand, I think you should check out the new site by team Orangejack, 170 Spoons.

Not only are you going to learn some really cool things, but you're going to find some new ways of doing things online that's going to make your life easier.

And who doesn't want easier, right?! Right!

Check out 170 Spoons (because you'll be kicking yourself if you don't!)

The more I play with my own tumblog, the more I think that — some day soon — my entire site will be a tumblog. (Tumblog? What's that?) Getting my day-to-day out there alongside my (seemingly) more developed thoughts harkens back to why I started blogging in the first place.

Fanblogs has the complete 2006-2007 College Football Bowl Schedule & TV Lineup.

And Merrin wonders why I'm always in a good mood this time of year!

I switched from MovableType to Wordpress this week, something I had been putting off for a long time because I had such a highly modified install of MT with a large number of posts & comments. Because mine was a somewhat non-typical install, I had to pull a few tricks to migrate. Here's a recap, plus links to many of the sources I found useful. [Read more →]

In the process of moving from MovableType to Wordpress, I found that MovableType will not export large numbers of entries. My blog was so big, that MT's default Export Entries feature would time out, copying less than half of my blog.

In order to export all of the entries from my large blog, I had to create the following custom Export Entries template. [Read more →]

Since I upgraded my MovableType install a week or two ago, my del.icio.us links have not been posting properly to MT 3.33. I'm using the daily blog posting feature (always have - haven't changed it in a year or more), but it has simply stopped working. I'm wondering if maybe I don't have a setting correct in Movable Type. Anyone having this problem? Solutions? Anybody?

It turns out that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s blog –which I posted about a few days ago– is targeting the computers of Israeli visitors by attempting to install a trojan horse virus on their computers.

And now Israel has started fighting back by hacking the site and bringing the server down.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad now has a blog with its own English, French, & Arabic translations.

Chad Evans of In The Bullpen pegs Ahmadinejad's propoganda machine:

How is it though that a man who has imprisoned people for using cell phone text messages, imprisoned bloggers, shut down sites, shut down media organizations not towing his line, imprisons, tortures and murders Iranian Democracy advocates, etc. now feels Western technology is fine to use? I suppose he drinks from the same jihad pond that his brethren in radical Islamic terrorist groups do. “We hate the West and the advancement of Western technology into Islamic lands, but we’ll use the Internet because through the Internet we can see pictures of naked women.”

Yeah, that about sums it up.

The announcement went up at Fanblogs today. I feel like I gave so much of myself to build Fanblogs during the first three years, and I'm really proud that the guys from Rivals.com are going to take it to the next level. I swear, I think they love college football even more than I do!

I'll still be involved in Fanblogs to some degree - most likely as a blogger and maybe a little consulting. (Just the good stuff that I truly enjoy - none of the heavy lifting!)
I want to thank everyone that was with Fanblogs from day one, and the people that joined us along the way. I've had a hell of a good time with the site and I can't wait to get started on what comes next!

It's a shame that one of my favorite blogs (by one of my favorite people) has now been hijacked by spammers. Ugh.

PT, if you decide to start blogging again, a) let us know, and b) let me know if you want me to host it & I'll set it up on one of my servers.

If you use Feedburner to manage your MovableType RSS feeds (you are using Feedburner, aren't you?!), then you may be interested in adding your comments count for each item to your feed using Feedburner's FeedFlare option. Although it was originally intended to utilize the Well-Formed Web formats, MT comment counts can be included with just a few tweaks.
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BoingBoing is fighting back against Secure Computing (and several Arab countries) for blacklisting the popular site with a new guide to defeating Secure Computing's SmartFilter. I think BB's in the right on this one.

I'm getting a lot of emails regarding Fanblogs right now. Its been an an unusually slow off-season at Fanblogs and people are curious if perhaps the nation's best college football blog is waning.

The answer? Not a chance, brother. The truth is that there's a lot going on at Fanblogs. The site is going through some HUGE changes right now - many of which will be announced/unveiled soon. Fanblogs is a great college football brand and I'm proud to see it going to the next level.

In the meantime, hold on (and hold on tight!) because the good stuff is just around the corner.

One of my emails today:

Kevin - Do you still have y'allblog? Just wondering.

Yep. Sure do. Yallblog and BlogDallas are sitting on the shelf over there (accumulating dust - for now).