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TechCrunch.com party at Pangea rocks Austin tech scene
Sep 26th
TechCrunch rocked the high style Pangea Lounge in Austin’s trendy 4th Street District on Sept 25, 2008 with a roomful of startups, entrepreneurs and VCs. Kimberlie Dykeman did about 20 interviews, and these are a few of the first to be released. More will be released later.
Interviewees included Troy from PeoplePad.com, Brad from DadLabs.com, Dewey from Mingll.com, Mark Spilotro with iknoware.com, Erick Schonfeld and Heather Harde with TechCrunch.com, Randy Cohen with ticketcity.com, Joshua Baer with otherinbox.com, Jay Hallberg with SpiceWorks.com, Samantha Nebrick with YellowPages.com, Dee Dee Dial with BazaarVoice.com and more.
The video is also appearing at these video sites: MySpace, Metacafe, Blip.tv, Stupid Videos and Sclipo. On itunes, subscribe to austinblogger to get the video on your Apple TV, ipod, or Itunes player.
Here’s the DadLabs video from the TechCrunch party:
And here’s our video which is on austinblogger on itunes:
Shey Smiths blog really rocks
May 20th
I stumbled across this blog on my friendfeed account a few days ago and it’s been a daily read ever since.
It’s http://sheysmith.com
Today he’s talking about tomorrow’s twit out and friendfeed and social networking. He’s doing an amazing job on this blog and it’s become a daily read.
And he turned me on to disqus!
Disqus was the topic on today’s net@nite with Amber and Leo and at first glance it’s something you don’t need, as Leo observed. But, on closer examination, it’s a great comment system for blogs that integrates video and ties comments in to social networks.    And best of all, it connects you to a community of blog commentors like Shey Smith.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for February 11th through February 12th
Feb 12th
These are my links for February 11th through February 12th:
- Network Camera Model IK-WB15A – Toshiba – The Toshiba IK-WB15A IP Network Camera captures live, high-resolution video that is viewable anywhere in the world through a standard web browser. It is the perfect tool for surveillance, business, entertainment, web site broadcasting and more.
- Gmail Manager :: Firefox Add-ons – Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail… Allows you to manage multiple Gmail ac
- How to Change the World – Guy Kawasaki’s blog.. great stuff
- How to Protect Your WordPress Site » Small Business Trends | small business experts – Here, from the voice of experience, is some advice for protecting your WordPress blog from hacking, or recovering quickly in case it happens to you:
- Team WhiteBoarding with Twiddla – Painless Team Collaboration for the Web – a web 2.0 version of gotomeeting
My del.icio.us bookmarks for February 1st
Feb 1st
These are my links for February 1st:
- Marshall Kirkpatrick – The highlights of the post are the link to this Wired article about the economy of screen scraping (great article) and this screencast about how to use Dapper that I finally recorded.
- agentgenius.com- national real estate opinion column » G-Spot – collaborative real estate blog
- wordTube at alex.rabe – playlist demo of several media files. wordTube supports streaming video format (Format .flv or .swf), sound files as MP3 and JPG, GIF or PNG grafic files. With wordTube you insert it into your blog with the tag [MEDIA=ID] or as playlist [MYPLAYLIST=ID].
- Contact Form 7 1.7.3 « iDeasilo – I released Contact Form 7 1.7.3 last week. I added two options for dropdown menu, checkboxes and radio buttons. default: option allows you to set initially selected or checked items. label-first option is for checkboxes and radio buttons; this makes check
- Building a Container House – We’re starting a container sales company and container home builder in Austin Texas so we’re looking for inspirational websites like this one by Bob Vila. http://cargotown.com http://cargosolar.com are our sites but they need content!
My del.icio.us bookmarks for January 31st
Jan 31st
These are my links for January 31st:
- dooce ® – our panel will be held Sunday, March 9th, if you are in Austin and can spare the mortgage payment it costs to get into the festival. Maggie will be the one speaking coherently, I will be the one trying to distract her by snapping the elastic on her bra.
- Eighth Annual Weblog Awards: The 2008 Bloggies – Honor. Prestige. Wealth. These are some of the things that a Bloggie won’t bring you. But that won’t stop the Web from voting, because this is the annual non-profit competition that determines which blogs are the best of the best.
- Musicovery : interactive webRadio – visually awesome music interface … fascinating
- COAST TO COAST AM WITH GEORGE NOORY – Noory and Bell talk show site for Coast to Coast
- Coast to Coast AM Members – Art Bell and George Noory’s subscription Coast to Coast AM “streamlink”… cool name… wonder how they’re doing
- Slashfood – Nectar With-a-Sting Honey Mustard featured in my V Cuisine cookbook. Of course, I’ve made other dressings before – the classic vinaigrette, several tofu-based creamy monstrosities – but they don’t even come close to the awesome power that is this dressing
My del.icio.us bookmarks for January 29th through January 30th
Jan 30th
These are my links for January 29th through January 30th:
- Jeffrey Zeldman Presents – daily report, designing with web standards
- Merlin Mann – Merline Mann’s blog SF CA of 43 Folders and MacBreak Weekly nailing down speaking gigs including sxsw 08 creator of 5ives
- Lijit | Home – I saw this on Veronica Belmont’s blog… it’s a custom search for your blog using google, del.icio.us, etc.
- imacros’ bookmarks tagged with “imacro” on del.icio.us – del.icio.us bookmarks which illustrate macros
- http://forum.iopus.com/_uploads/demos/firststeps/FirstSteps1.htm – macros for firefox browser
- Urban Dictionary: Define Your World – wild expressions for the modern age… you can have fun with this one for hours
- SecTheory – Internet Security – Have you ever just wanted to sit in a small room with a few likeminded professionals and get some tough questions answered? Ever wanted the right ammunition to tackle the tough web application security issues on your plate? Welcome to The Austin Project.
- Geek News Central Technical News and Informational Stories – I found some links today through a round about way that indicates that some podcasters may and I repeat ?may? have found a way to game the Podcast Subscription Metric System Apple has.
- Roxer – The easiest way to make a web page – Now anyone can create stunning websites online in just minutes.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for January 28th
Jan 28th
These are my links for January 28th:
- Theme Viewer – graphical theme viewer for wordpress
- GarageBand.com : charts – tons of podsafe music available for downloading
- ReadWriteWeb – news and apps in the web 2.0 world
- Social bookmarking services poster and community websites submitter: digg.com reddit.com netscape.com propeller.com Del.icio.us Stumbleupon.com etc. –
- DomainsBot – Available domain suggestions, name spinner, expired and expiring domain name search – great domain name search tool
- Mediafly: Technology News podcasts – really great, visually appealing podcast directory
- 12 Podcasts for the Creative Class – Here are 12 must-listen-to podcasts for creative knowledge workers–those entrepreneurial spirits who start and staff the most innovative, fast-growing companies.
- Twitter Stats – springnet twitter stats
- Free Windows Vista Drivers Update Scan at RadarSync – This page lists the latest Windows Vista drivers and provides direct links to the files for downloads. We’re offering this as a free service to the community, to help you all get through this challenging period of Vista-transitioning.
- SIW | System Information for Windows – SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner.
- Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100 – Simply put, we found that WordPress dominates the list, that Movable Type comes in with a respectable second, and the rest are either custom jobbies or a smattering of other platforms which are, relatively speaking, eating dust.
- Virtual Hosting Blog » The Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet: Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sheets – The Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet: Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sheets
- What is Big Think? – Big Think – Featured Ideas – we are what you think
- vozMe – just type your text and it creates an mp3 file
- A Sample of Journals Using Open Journal Systems | Public Knowledge Project – This is not a comprehensive list of the over 900 titles using OJS (as of March 2007) in ten languages, but includes those who have indicated an interest in being listed, and is intended to illustrate the diversity of journals using system.
- Austin jumping on Rails – What started as a grass-roots movement has become one of the hottest new things in programming technology, generating the same level of passion among its adherents as Linux, another outsider technology that moved into the mainstream.
- ONLamp.com — From Weblog to CMS with WordPress – This article describes how we used one blogging package (WordPress) to replace a traditional content management system (phpWebSite) to run a community website.
- Twitter Stats – This is a totally ugly engine to produce some stats from your Twitter feed and present them with the Google Charts API, including Tweets per hour of the day, total Tweets per day/month, top @replies and top overall @s.
- Twitter Balloon Badge visualizes Tweets – A wonderful Twitter update badge you can customize to your heart?s delight and place on your blog, Facebook, MySpace?
- Software Categories – softwre applications for ubuntu gutsy (debian)
- Facebook Apps On Any Website: Clever Move – Facebook announced Friday a new JavaScript client library that will allow Facebook apps to be displayed on any website. The client library allows users to make Facebook API calls from any web site and create Ajax Facebook applications on that website.
- About CMS Watch — CMS Watch – Our reports help sort out the complex landscape of potential solutions so that project teams can minimize the time and effort to identify and evaluate technologies suited to their particular requirements.
- Podcasting Underground | Podcasting Tips for Podcasters – In this episode of The Podcasting Underground, I talk about how I make the most money from podcasting and blogging. It?s probably not what you?re thinking. In Q3 of this year I used an often overlooked strategy to generate over $70,000 from my podcast
- Mogulus » Broadcast Live. – lifecast 24/7 with mogulus … competition for ustream.tv and justin.tv
- World?s Largest Swimming Pool cost nearly Two Billion Dollars to Build – SlashGear – Seriously, take a long and deep breath if you?re thinking of making a lap in the swimming pool at the San Alfonso del Mar resort in Algarrobo city, Chile. The 20 acres man-made saltwater lagoon measures more than one thousand yards in length, 115 feet d
- Exclusives: The Tom Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientologists Don’t Want You To See – Didn’t get a chance to watch the terrifyingly creepy Tom Cruise video yesterday before Scientologists pulled it off YouTube? Well, we’ve managed to get our hands on a copy and now we’d like to invite you to watch in all its technicolor glory.
- SlashGear – Apparently the deal with this card is that you slide it into your iPhone and it somehow magically hardware unlocks your iPhone. I am not an electrical engineer, so I can?t tell you how well this thing will work, but if I had to guess, it won?t.
- Google Labs – Google labs showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren’t quite ready for prime time. Your feedback can help us improve them. Please play with these prototypes and send your comments directly to the Googlers who developed them.
- Small Laptops – Small laptop: ?A subnotebook (also known as a palmtop, a kneetop or an ultraportable) is an extremely small and lightweight portable computer, with all features of a standard laptop computer and running all its applications. Its overall size is much sm
- HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials | Howtos about Linux and Open Source – HowtoForge provides user-friendly Linux tutorials about almost every topic.
- Find Out Who Is Visiting Your Site: Website Traffic Tools | TechnoTarget – Find Out Who Is Visiting Your Site: Website Traffic Tools
- Feature: Access Your Computer Anytime and Save Energy with Wake-on-LAN – Wake-on-LAN (or WOL), which?as the name suggests?turns on your PC through your local network. Wake-on-LAN is a breeze to set up and use on your local network, and with a little legwork you can set it up so you can wake your computer away from your hom
- Thoof – Welcome to Thoof! Thoof will show you interesting news, websites, videos, and other links, personalized to your individual tastes. Just click on the stories that interest you, and let Thoof do the rest.
- Jane Austen on PBS — PVS / PBS and Public Television videos and DVDs – Masterpiee the complete Jane Austen airing on PBS January through April 2008
- Ubuntu Linux Resources – a collection of tutorials and random other pages that will help Ubuntu users.
- Gridjit: A Social Portal for Twitter – The Twitter view that springnet sees.
- Podcast Generator – Open Source Podcast Publishing Solution – Podcast Generator is a free web based podcast publishing script written in PHP: upload media files (audio-video) via a web form along with episode information and automatically create podcast w3c-compliant feed including iTunes specific tags. It also feat
My del.icio.us bookmarks for January 20th through January 21st
Jan 21st
These are my links for January 20th through January 21st:
- Will We See Delicious 2.0 This Week? – It?s been four and a half months since Yahoo first previewed Delicious 2.0. We?ve heard not a peep from them since as to when it might launch publicly and replace the existing, somewhat dated interface.
- DVM5051_SPECS.pdf (application/pdf Object) – awesome webcam that has night vision and a 60′ cable. Rocks!
- ImageShack – Hosting :: austintexassj6.jpg – logo austin texas for jtv austintexas site
- Add Gnome etc to a Server install? – Ubuntu Forums – how to add the desktop gnome to a server install
- Perfect 7.1 ubuntu gutsy gibbon install – One of the best guides for install gutsy gibbon ubuntu 7.1 excellent!
- The Zeitgeist » About – David HM Spector is an innovator, developer, writer, consultant and entrepreneur specializing in high-performance computing, social network applications and interface agents. His consulting company is Zeitgeist Information Systems, canonically known as
- redhat.com | Products & Services – Virtualization provides an escape from this very problem. The existing stack can continue to run as is as a guest inside a virtual machine, while the latest hypervisor happily supports the new hardware, as well as bringing benefits in reliability and perf
- Skype on iPhone – there is a workaround that will enable you to use Skype on the Apple iPhone.
- Common File Extensions – Common file extensions that are good to know, organized by file format.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for December 31st through January 1st
Jan 1st
These are my links for December 31st through January 1st:
- Cutline – Links Menu – great wordpress theme, I’m using this on http://bountyhuntersecrets.com and other blogs
- karmalised – antiwar blog, nice use of the cutline theme
- Bounty Hunter Secrets ? Secrets of a Bounty Hunter – Secrets of a bounty hunter – blog for a film, a dvd and a book to be issued soon
- Viddler.com – Upload, Enhance, Share – You can upload many videos at once, and in various formats, too (.mov .avi .wmv .mpeg). You also won’t have to worry about file size ? just keep any video you upload under 500 Mb.
- AddThis – Social Bookmarking Widget Del.icio.us Digg Button – promotes your content everywhere through bookmarking and sharing
- WordPress ? WordPress Plugins – most popular wordpress plugins
My del.icio.us bookmarks for December 29th through December 30th
Dec 30th
These are my links for December 29th through December 30th:
- Tweet Scan – Real-time Twitter Search – real time search of twitter for springnet
- One Blog Many Categories or Many Blogs? – Am I better off having one blog site with multiple categories or multiple blog sites highlighting specific interests??
- Resources to Make Money Online | TechnoTarget – Review Me pays to review products and services on your site. You control what you review. Submit your site for inclusion into our ReviewMe publisher network. One example of many ways to make money online. *****
- SocialPicks: social stock picks & research – Good Ideas By People You Trust SocialPicks is a community where stock investors exchange ideas and track performance.
- Web Worker Daily – rebooting the workforce, daily tips on working on the web
- KillerStartups.com? – The Next Big Thing on the Internet is here. You pick it – review 30+ internet startups per working day. Vote for the one you think will be a killer. Vote for http://searchslides.com eh!
- Bootstrapper » The 100 Daily Must-Reads for Entrepreneurs – The 100 Daily Must-Reads for Entrepreneurs Monday, July 23, 2007 at 7:23pm by admin These days, it seems that almost everyone has a blog, so it?s often hard to separate what?s really worth reading from what isn?t. 100 best sites
My del.icio.us bookmarks for December 26th
Dec 26th
These are my links for December 26th:
- habibbijan.com – series of reviews on free antivirus programs
- Data Recovery Software – File System Utilities – Image creation uses Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe “hot images” even from drives currently in use. Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to process them with 3rd party tools. Never again be stuck with a usele
- The Best Bike Route Between Austin and Bastrop – best bike route between Bastrop and Austin
- Loudtalks ? keep talking. Two way radio over p2p – Loudtalks brings voice back to the internet communications. It’s a little application, which allows you to talk to your friends or colleagues instantly with a single touch of a button. Think walkie talkie. It’s faster than text chat and more convenient th
- Facebook is so last year – welcome to the hit websites of 2008 | Technology | The Guardian – Facebook is so last year – welcome to the hit websites of 2008
- Loic Le Meur Blog – Wew, that Seesmic review is a Christmas gift ! Thank you Bobbie Johnson to consider that Seesmic will be a hit website in 2008 even though we are still building it.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for December 22nd
Dec 22nd
These are my links for December 22nd:
- Wireless Networking – Wireless networking news, publications and reviews
- Home > Tweeterboard : Conversation Analytics for Twitter – Tweeterboard is a way of looking at who is influential on Twitter based on their conversations with other Twitter users. There are other services, like Twitterposter, that base influence on how many followers you have. Tweeterboard looks at who talks to u
- Political Base – Election and Candidate Information – Wacky Utterance of the Day: Huckabee and Rice
- ProductWiki, unbiased product reviews and information – ProductWiki is the resource for free, unbiased product reviews and information written and maintained by the community.
- Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Weave – One important area for exploration is the blending of the desktop and the Web through deeper integration of the browser with online services.
- The Crunchies 2007 – Celebrating the best of internet and technology innovation – The 2007 Crunchies is our first annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year.
- Fimoculous.com – misc – Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading – Last year I decided to put on twist on my annual “best blogs” post [2002, 2003, 2004] by taking a turn toward the obscure. it makes little sense to write a post arguing that Huffington Post is better or worse than DailyKos — or Cute Overload.
- Google Talk Gadget – chat on google talk … we’re live at http://justin.tv/austintexas from Hope BC Canada today
- Gmail Notifier – The Gmail Notifier is an application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for December 11th through December 17th
Dec 17th
These are my links for December 11th through December 17th:
- Portfolio :: Pragya Web Solutions – free themes for blogs… this is the theme that john dvorak uses on http://dvorak.com/blog/
- Crumpler Products Page – Don?t kick me while I?m pale. I?ve dry fetched so much since I went on the Jack and Jill rhythm method . . . Up went Jill, down went Jack, dear Liza, dear Liza, there?s a hole and someone?s taking a leak from my nursery rhyme book!
- Blaze New Media: Blog » Five Wordpress “CMS Enabling” Plugins – This is where Filosofo’s “Home-Page Control” plugin comes in handy. This plugin lets you specify any Wordpress page to use as your home page
- Wordpress Plugins & Tutorials: Your Pick | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine – Include AdSense and YPN ads automatically. AdSense-Deluxe offers advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. (TheBlogJoint.com)
- Darren Hoyt Dot Com » Wordpress Magazine Theme Released – Mimbo is a magazine-style Wordpress theme which makes extensive use of WP?s template tag system to create a non-traditional layout. It contains no images and only minimal CSS styling. Mainly it exists as a clean, grid-based starter layout for designers
My del.icio.us bookmarks for December 1st through December 8th
Dec 8th
These are my links for December 1st through December 8th:
- Ultimate Boot CD – Overview – Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD. Wouldn’t you like to avoid digging into the dusty box to look for the right floppy disk, but simply run them all from a single CD? Then the Ultimate Boot CD is for you!
- Mod My Life Has Control Issues « NewTeeVee – Is Subservient Chicken a business model? That?s what the team behind startup Mod My Life will find out as they attempt to take lifecasting to the next level by letting the audience be in control of the lifecaster.
- Submit Multiple URLs to del.icio.us Bookmarks as a Batch at Digital Inspiration – Imagine you have hundreds (or even thousands) of webpage URLs that you want to upload to your del.icio.us account. How would do this bulk submit when the delicious system allows you to bookmark web pages one at a time ?
- door64.com | Austin High-Tech Online – door64 is all about building an online community of high-tech professionals in Austin, Texas. We’re just starting out, but growing each day.
- SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 Awards – Our team reviewed hundreds of sites in the Web 2.0 sphere to uncover the best in each of 41 categories. From there, we assembled a team of 25 of the most knowledgeable, well-respected experts in the field to vote on the winners.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for November 26th through November 30th
Nov 30th
These are my links for November 26th through November 30th:
- Graphic Design Blog » Wordpress as a CMS – Content Management System – Wordpress as a CMS – Content Management System
- http://www.pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&id=518&t=reviews – This may be the ultimae geewear item…. cargo pants on steroids with hidden pockets… thanks for the tip bushwald /cote
- qwantz.com – dinosaur comics – November 23 2007 – first three lines would be super christmas card
- ack — a grep replacement that ignores .svn/CVS/blib directories, understands file types, uses Perl regexes, and much more –
- Hyper Estraier: a full-text search system for communities –
My del.icio.us bookmarks for November 22nd through November 25th
Nov 25th
These are my links for November 22nd through November 25th:
- Niall Corbet’s slideshow on Flickr – A wonderful slide show of images from Niall Corbet, Thailand
- Spiritual Activism – These key values are guiding forces on the path of spiritual activism. They have been used to result in tremendous power and change for the world.
- http://chrisbrogan.com/rockstars/ – Here?s a list of blogs, podcasts, and videoblogs of people. People who come here, or who I love, or who make the story better when you get into it all. If you?re part of [chrisbrogan.com], then you should be on this page. Email me : blog [at] chrisbro
- HDtv film Thailand » Archive » Theo Van Gogh and the Golden Age of Hollywood – The author, former Playboy bunny and activist Susan Dusty ALDOUS joins us. Dusty delivers a birthday cake to celebrate, as my mum would say, Virginias 19th birthday.
- Videoguys – Focus FS-4 on sale $699.95 – Weighing about one pound and only 1.5 inches thick, the FS-4 Portable DTE Recorder brings Direct To Edit® Technology to your DV or HDV handheld camcorder is what Cali Lewis uses.
- J. LeRoy’s Evolving Web – I’m Living In My Tabset I noticed today that Windows XP pretty much confirms that I no longer use desktop applications like I used to. This is http://twitter.com/ourfounder
- iSmi –
- Austin – Mahalo – This search result is for information on Austin, Texas. We also have results for Austin Restaurants, Austin Vacation, Austin Tours, and Austin Hotels.
- HDtv film Thailand » Archive » Surfer rock legend is now Thai expat with new memoir – once upon a time, in the California Inland Empire outside of Los Angeles, garage rock ruled. A young surfer dude dreamed of escape from the provincial ticky tacky of Riverside. Little did Rick Brown know his fate was to be the lead singer of one of the gr
- PickyPirate – A Metacritic-Bittorrent mashup – This is a mashup between Metacritic and leading bittorrent search engines Mininova and The Pirate Bay. It displays the most highly rated items from the last month, and does its best to match it automatically with the healthiest public torrent available.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for November 18th through November 19th
Nov 19th
These are my links for November 18th through November 19th:
- WordPress Themes. WordPress Themes Tutorials. Blog Design. – WordPress Themes & WordPress Blog Design for Small Business. Michael D. PollockWe design powerful, easy-to-use web publishing platforms – sometimes known as blogs or content management systems – that make it easier for small business owners to connect wi
- JoeyPrimiani.com – Y Combinator does seed funding for startups. Seed funding is the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays your expenses while you?re getting started.
- http://www.ycombinator.com/s7app.txt – Y Combinator Funding Application | Summer 2007
- HDtv film Thailand » Archive » Adrian Belic, Beyond the Call – BEYOND THE CALL follows Antic and his compadres as he travels the third world bringing medicine, money , and educational tools to the poor in lands as diverse as Afghanistan or the Phillipines.
- LOL: The Life of Leo ? The personal blog of technology journalist Leo Laporte – Leo blogs Amber met the Dalai Lama and giggled. Leo’s wordpress blog. He’s back on twitter and he’s seen the light with wordpress. Hallelujah!
- The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte – I record almost all our shows from my small studio in Northern California. I’m using a mixer and a professional microphone, the rest of the participants are usually calling in via the Internet telephony program Skype
let the good comments roll with diskus!
May 20th
Posted by austinblogger in podcast
Comments
I have to admit to being a comment poor blog. And I’m remiss in not putting akismet and disqus on here sooner. Tonight akisment gave 32,000 plus spam comments a beating. They’re gone. Room now for your comments and disqus should make things a lot more interesting.
I got turned on to the disqus comment system by Shey Smith on his most excellent blog, http://sheysmith.com and got really motivated to install it when I heard Leo Laporte and Amber Macarthur rolling in the aisles over this on their net@nite podcast broadcast live today. It helped push me more that Dave Winer, grandaddy of rss and blogs, is using this as well.
Disqus brings video comments, along with a community of commenters, better comment formatting, and much more. And the wordpress plugin install was as easy as could be.