The dash is a lot easier to read in titles than the vertical bar. Whenever Google indexes a blog post, the Google bots use the meta title of the blog post. For the meta title, most blogs these days will include two items: title of the blog post the name of the blog When you […]
Barkha Dutt of the Washington Post is the most-engaged top journalist on Twitter. 64% of the reporter’s tweets are at-replies. That’s how to use Twitter–as an engagement platform, not a broadcast platform. How do the other most-followed journalists on Twitter rate with their response level? Poynter published a list of the the most-followed journalists on Twitter: Anderson […]
With the $200 million new funding for Reddit, they are planning a site redesign. (reports recode) Huffman’s plan for the new funding includes a redesign of reddit.com — the company is literally re-writing all of its code, some of which is more than a decade old. An early version of the new design, which we […]
Twenty links this month. This is a collection of articles where I left a comment in July 2017 Work of the Week: Statue of a Ram | The Art Institute of Chicago And the palm trunk also serves to tickle the ram’s belly. Stored on: July 31, 2017 A slow modem is a pigeon – Spudart […]
Keep track of the comments you leave on blogs and articles. I store my comments in a bookmarking service pinboard. These bookmarks are handy when you need to recall a specific article. Every month will post links to the blog posts and articles where I have left a comment. In June 2017, there are 22 such […]
Did you ever collect comic books as a kid? If so, when did you stop collecting? Maybe it has to do with the cover prices increasing. Cost increase of comic books Anthony’s Notes lists the price of comics, along with and without inflation: 1990 is about the year when I waned off collecting comics. As […]
Does your college offer digital archives online? If so, you might find some good memories within their files. College memories hidden away in film My alma mater, Illinois Wesleyan Univerity, is a smaller school of 2,000 students. When I attended in the late 90s we didn’t have social media. To my knowledge, there was only […]
See among your friends who gets the most steps in one work week. Fitbit has a great feature called “Challenges.” Every week, you can invite your friends to participate in the “Workweek Hustle.” Fitbit keeps track of the progress of all your friends throughout the week. Fitbit makes it fun to check in regularly to […]
Many people hate progress bars. You copy a bunch of files from one hard drive to another. Then you have to wait. And wait. And wait. However, I love progress bars. How far along is it? I love checking. Right now I’m moving a website over to a new host. That too, gets a progress bar. […]
I was a paying Hootsuite user for five years, but I cancelled my service last year, and moved to Tweetdeck. Why? Both Hootsuite and Tweetdeck let you set up multiple columns to view live tweets from Twitter lists and searches. With either service, you can be a power-user of Twitter. But which service is better? Tweetdeck or […]