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The Future of Blogging Is a Ghost?

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Okay, not a ghost, but Ghost, the Kickstarter project for a new blogging platform. Check out the explanatory video.

This project has already surpassed its initial goal and is now 31% of its way to reaching its lofty stretch goals. So if you’re a blogger, understand the shortfalls of blogging tools, and see how Ghost addresses these problems then it’s not too late to back this project.

Migrating from Posterous to WordPress.com

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Since Posterous announced that it will be shutting down on April 30, I followed their steps to backup my existing Posterous content.

For the requested backup to be available took some time and downloading ~140 MB of stuff took some time as well. Using my existing (but unused) pulpconnection.wordpress.com blog, I used the Import tool. I located the XML file in the unzipped download and let the import tool go to work. After another wait, I was notified everything completed successfully.

So at least my 459 Posterous items now live on within WordPress.com. Who knows, I may even configure this extra blog to be Posterous like.

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Posterous content migrated to WordPress.com

Oh and apologies if this massive import blows up your WordPress.com Reader if you follow along. I’m not sure if all these entries are reported as “new” and therefore overwhelm your reader feed.

Most Viewed Pulpconnection Posts Written in 2012

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Okay, I’m a little bummed that the popular posts for Pulpconnection in 2012 were posts written before 2012. So what were the highlights that actually actually transpired in 2012? The top ten for 2012 looks like this.

  1. Buyer Beware the TVPad
  2. I Want to Draw the Linsanity!
  3. Belkin Grip Candy Sheer Black and Green
  4. Making Sense of Your iPhone 5 Order Status
  5. Vote for Vawer!
  6. iOS 6 Install Frozen?
  7. iPhone 5 Screen Flicker Problem
  8. Thunder and Lightning Olympic Jordans
  9. Dwyane Wade, Why Are You Leaving Team Jordan?
  10. It’s Winter Online!

Yeah, pretty tame stuff so I can see how these posts didn’t rate highly against my older material. I mean how can iPhone 5 problems, a complaint with the TVPad, and news from the house of Jordan compete against Hawaiian slang, a ghetto latte, Abercrombie & Fitch, LEGOs, Club 939, Taylor Lautner, and a moose knuckle?

Now, I don’t know if there is a correlation between posts and revenue earned from ads on Pulpconnection. But here’s a comparison for this past year. The number of posts is indicated by the green bars while advertising performance is the red line.

I don’t spot a trend, but I like what happened in October. For the month with the least amount of posts, it looks like my second highest earning month. I need to look into this, early Christmas shopping perhaps?

Most Viewed Pulpconnection Posts for 2012

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So I know what the Pulpconnection view count looks like for 2012. What posts drew the most interest? According to Google Analytics, these are the top ten viewed posts.

  1. 21 Slang Words You Should Know Before Visiting Hawaii (Part 1) (2009)
  2. Starbucks Red Eye, Black Eye, and Ghetto Latte (2007)
  3. Starbucks Gold Is Now Starbucks Rewards (2009)
  4. Buyer Beware the TVPad (2012)
  5. 21 Slang Words You Should Know Before Visiting Hawaii (Part 2) (2009)
  6. Abercrombie & Fitch Ruckus (2008)
  7. Lots and Lots of Legos (2009)
  8. Was That a DWTS Moose Knuckle, Gilles? (2009)
  9. Possible Day Biz Model for Club 939 (2009)
  10. Taylor Lautner, the Next Calvin Klein Underwear Model? (2009)

From these stats, it seems that my blogging peaked in 2009 with 7 of the top 10 posts written in ’09. The only post from 2012 in the Top Ten was my Buyer Beware the TVPad post.

Accordingly, the top search terms drawing in viewers mirror the most viewed posts. Here are the top Pulpconnection keywords for 2012.

  1. hawaiian slang
  2. starbucks gold card
  3. starbucks red eye
  4. tvpad
  5. starbucks black eye
  6. red eye starbucks
  7. hawaii slang
  8. hawaiian slang words
  9. moose knuckle
  10. cafe lu

You Can Exclude Images from the WordPress Image Gallery

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All this time I didn’t know you could exclude images from being part of the built-in WordPress Image Gallery feature. I always thought it was an “all or none” situation where all your post’s pictures showed up in its respective gallery. Only now did I learn about the exclude function of the gallery. The only (slightly) tricky part of this is finding the attachment ID of the excluded image, but that minor step is worth the effort.

Check out the WordPress Image Gallery support page for other allowable customizations.

Are you confused about what I’m talking about? Here’s an example. Check out this old post, Interesting Sights at Ala Moana. For this post, I uploaded a total of five images. Four of them are the Tokidoki patterns, and the last one is of the “snow” at Ala Moana. Since the four Tokidoki patterns make sense together, I want these to appear in a gallery with thumbnail views of the images. I could have shown each of the four images in a larger view, but I didn’t want to give up that much real estate, and the image gallery with 4 columns does a nice job. But, the typical behavior of the image gallery is to display all the images which includes the Ala Moana snow. That picture really doesn’t make sense in context of the other four, so I excluded it from displaying in the gallery. The image however is still part of the post and is seen individually at the end.

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