Archive for the ‘Updates’ Category
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 |
Yes, it has been awhile since I have posted anything new, especially anything new within the bounds of what this blog should represent.
Right now I am primarily working on Darkside Dreamland, my personal blog and soapbox for anything I want. I’ve been trying to get back to having that site as a place that actually does have regular posts that can save the wide variety of ideas that bounce through my head.
So please be patient here. I am trying to get back to writing about sustainable systems and ideas, but currently I have a few opinions and sets of information that conflict and make it rather hard to post without feeling a bit like I want to rant back at myself.
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Monday, June 9th, 2008 |
Recently there have been a number of new user registrations. However, the vast majority are from addresses that are almost certainly bot generated. This being the case, it has been time to clean out the user list.
Any user that shows as having zero comments will be deleted by the end of the week.
So if you happen to be a real person, have registered as a user, and have not commented please either leave a message here or on any other post. Luckily, due to the magic of WP, you don’t have to register to comment. And most of you who do comment are, in fact, not registered. So I predict business will continue exactly as normal!
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 |
Yeah, everyone has been talking about it. I held out until now to upgrade.
Previous updates generally caused some plug-in and theme problems for me. So I was a bit reluctant. So reluctant that I tested it out on a new blog I am re-purposing from an old idea. After poking around in the new interface and updates for about 15 minutes it was easy to come to the decision to update all of my sites to the 2.5 goodness.
One of the key features that sold me instantly is the built in ability to update plug-ins from the admin panel. No more tracking down the site, messing with ftp, or really any additional steps at all. It was never a problem to do this maintenance in 2.3, but now it doesn’t even feel like that.
As a general statement I would say the new update actually brings the admin panel into the web 2.0 world. It gets a little cartoon looking in some places, but overall it works faster, more smoothly, and just feel more intuitive than it ever did before… except for sidebar editing, that feel like a minor step backward, but I still need to play more in that area to make a full judgment.
How has your experience with WP 2.5 been?
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 |
Sorry about the lack of posts at the moment. The wheel are turning, but big projects at work and some lack of personal motivation the last couple of weekends delayed my plans.
To make up for that, I will tell you what is coming up so that I have to follow through sooner than later.
First up is a response to some of the ideas and problems brought up by Myku in comments. The post will pay special attention to how to have an effect on your community without ever touching politics, or how to get involved if you want to.
The next big post will be a response to Lon Sarver. The most important issue will be investigating the problem posed by industrial society causing our social ills but possibly being dependent on it for some ideas I put out.
For the next couple of months posts will follow that same model of trying to investigate issues brought up in comments on last three main posts.
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008 |
Well to start back on to topics that actually apply to this blog, I thought I would start with some recent stats.
So far the Alexa rank of this site has been increasing nicely and is currently sitting at just under the 400,000 mark for the 3 month average. The one week moving average is just over 200,000 at the moment but was closer 150,000 last week.
What starteled me a bit more were these number from Alexa
Malaysia 25,445
Philippines 44,827
United States 47,314
United Kingdom 99,341
It’s nice to see my site above (and well above) the 100k mark anywhere. The reality of it is a bit humbling. Google also shows the average daily visits sitting at close to 100 unique visits per day. It’s not some incredible number, but it makes me happy.
Overall searches are down, but it seems like Sustainable Democracy has never been the most popular search term… Maybe I can start to change that. I guess there is only one way to find out.
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