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Testing out account integration with RPX. With RPX, you can sign in to comment using existing accounts from Facebook, Google, Yahoo, OpenID, WordPress, and Twitter.

I think it’s working… Try it out and leave me a comment. Thanks!

Great Article on Implementing Web 2.0 in Your Organization

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Wow, read a great and very pertinent article, “A Practical Guide to Implementing Web 2.0 (aka Social Networking Tools) in Your Organization” which hits very close to home. I’ve been experimenting and pushing the use of social networking tools at work and see lots of what is described in the article. And after attending a recent Knowledge Management Conference and meeting others working similar issues, the points of the article are driven deeper even more.

I have to blog more about this at work! But here are some interesting quotes from the article:

users have to resort to the dreaded search bar on the Intranet, too. Most people I speak to use this only as a last resort, and rarely find anything useful — they quickly give up and look for a real person to provide what they’re looking for

The final lemon in our trio is groupware (though the term, which is now disparaging, is rarely used). Groupware, of which the most notorious example is SharePoint, was designed to facilitate ‘communities of practice’ (CoPs)

Most groupware tools are so horrifically over-engineered and bloated with ‘features’ that they require full-time IT resources to manage, and to set up and ‘authorize’ new CoPs

From my experience, you should question the need for everything on the Intranet beyond directories and policies

Ah heck, there’s too much to list! Read the entire article for all it wisdom.

reCAPTCHA Protection

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Interesting. I disabled the WordPress plugin, reCAPTCHA, for one day and in that time, get 10 new user registrations on this site. Probably bogus accounts for spamming. Sorry but looks like I’m reactivating the protection of reCAPTCHA.

More Pulpconnection Changes

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Things at Pulpconnection continue to change. I’ve been tinkering around with some stuff to see how it works.

I’ve changed my “subscriptions” around and consolidated my main ones in the Connect section in the sidebar.

I installed Google FriendConnect along with a few of its gadgets. I’m currently using the Members gadget, Recommendations, and the Social bar. I’ll probably keep the Members and Recommendations gadgets. Not sure about the obtrusive Social bar which you now see at the very top. I also want to see if users can login to comment using their Google account via FriendConnect.

If you read a post you like, there’s a Recommend It! button at the end of the full post. These recommendations feed the Recommended stories gadget in the sidebar. I haven’t completely figured out the Recommend It button though since it shows on the very first post on the home page but not the other posts. But if go to a specific post, you’ll see the Recommend It button for each post.

With Google FriendConnect, I might drop the MyBlogLog Recent Visitors. They used to be THE game in town, but I hardly see any new MyBlogLog users roll through here anymore.

I tweaked the Top Posts widget to show the five most viewed posts from the past 30 days instead of the all time top posts.

And I forgot that Suggestions tab floating on the side of the screen.  That’s powered by Skribit (and seen on Paul Stamatiou’s site).  If you have any suggestions or recommendations for Pulpconnection, you can use this to provide your ideas.

Updating Feedburner

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I haven’t logged into Feedburner for a long, long time but had to look into some RSS feed errors I began seeing after installing the 404 Notifier. Seems like Google’s FeedFetcher is looking for Pulpconnection RSS feeds at:

https://www.pulpconnection.net/feeds/posts/default

But since I use Feedburner, my feed location should be:

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/pulpconnection

To fix this, I had to update Feedburner, now that they are more integrated with Google. And I also installed the FD Feedburner plugin which is supposed to redirect all RSS feed calls to my Feedburner feed instead.

We’ll see if these changes makes any difference.

Looking at Pulpconnection Stats

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I haven’t been really looking at web stats for Pulpconnection for some time. Visits haven’t been the same since the move to WordPress. Couple the move with less and inconsistent blog posting, and the stats ain’t going to look pretty.

For the month of April 2009, here is the top content:

  1. Ace of Cakes LOST in Hawaii
  2. Team Jacob Getting Pumped
  3. Bella’s Lullaby on Sheet Music
  4. Taylor Lautner, the Next Calvin Klein Underwear Model?
  5. Club 939 tag
  6. Rory Wild Back with the Wakeup Crew
  7. My 15-Minute Review of Tweetie for the Mac
  8. More Heat from Abercrombie & Fitch
  9. The LOST Cake Revealed
  10. GoGirl Lets Women Pee Standing Up

Top traffic sources:

  1. Google
  2. Google images
  3. cakecentral.com
  4. sitemeter.com
  5. Yahoo
  6. MSN Live
  7. Facebook
  8. Ginx
  9. MSN
  10. Twitter

Wow, I don’t know if I like the message looking at the top content – a few Twilight things, a few LOST items, controversial ads from Abercrombie & Fitch, and Club 939?!

Looking at the traffic sources demonstrates the changes of social networking. Facebook, Twitter, and Ginx are now valid sources of traffic, albeit small compared to the search engines.

Gotta keep plugging away and see how things go.

Nearing 3000 Posts!

Just saw some stats and if accurate, I’m coming up on 3000 pulpy blog posts! WordPress is saying I have 2978 published posts which should include all the imported posts from the original Blogger-powered Pulpconnection blog.

22 more to 3K!

Vacation Blogging Brought to You By…

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While on my recent Socal vacation, I didn’t have access to a computer for blogging. Instead I updated Pulpconnection using a combination of mobile devices and various Internet services. Here’s a rundown.

iPhone (and built-in camera). My iPhone 3G was the primary device for getting online. I used its okay internal camera for posted pictures.

AT&T 3G Network. I must say that the AT&T 3G network worked well in Socal. Very, very few dead spots or times when I dropped to EDGE speeds. Only at the LAX airport did I have some serious 3G network slowdowns. Other than that, I preferred the 3G network even over WiFi. The free WiFi access at hotels were slow and always required a web login to initiate your session and subsequent logins to keep your session going.

WordPress for iPhone. Since Pulpconnection is now powered by WordPress, I relied on the app, WordPress for iPhone, to make significant blog posts. Though significant is relative since tapping out a lengthy post on the iPhone’s virtual keyboard isn’t the easiest thing to do.

One thing I hope the WordPress team fixes is the image handling of this iPhone app. It seems all images are added to the end of blog posts and can’t be placed within paragraphs of a post. That and sometimes the app’s UI would mess up and not display the necessary navigation buttons at the top. So I’d be stranded, not able to save my post. Fortunately, when leaving the app and coming back in, the app is able to restore my draft.

Tweetie, Twitter (with Twitpic), and Twitter Tools for WordPress. For all shorter blog posts, I used a bunch of stuff. Tweetie is my primary Twitter client on the iPhone. Combined with Twitter Tools for WordPress, tweets can automatically be converted to blog posts. I used this nifty function quite a bit.

Brightkite. To update my Socal location, I used Brightkite. The iPhone’s GPS would find my coordinates which I would check in using the Brightkite service. Brightkite integrates with Twitter and tweets my current location. And with Twitter Tools running, even these location based tweets are converted to blog posts.

So there you have it, my arsenal for mobile blogging without a computer. I will say that it wasn’t the easiest thing to do, but it wasn’t so difficult to stop me. To make this a more ideal setup would be incorporating an ultra portable netbook with a keyboard and USB port to retrieve higher quality pictures from digital cameras. Ahem, Apple?

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