Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture
I first came into “contact” with Justin Shattuck’s when I commented on his post about WordPress Plugin Development. He seemed to be asking the same questions as I was regarding the configuring and using of WordPress plugins. I am planning on dealing with some of these issues in my MA thesis Blog Software and the… Read more Review: Justin Shattuck’s site
I’m tired! It doesn’t matter how fast I read I never seem to be able to catch up. It is actually making me feel rather stressed out. What am I talking about? Keeping up with blogs and RSS feeds. There are two main reasons I am subscribed to tons of feeds: 1. I am doing… Read more Review: Netvibes – RSS exhaustion
I have a question for all you die-hard bloggers out there: before there was blogging software, such as WordPress, how did you blog? Manually writing HTML and uploading it with FTP? Manually writing PHP? This question is related to my MA research on Blogs and Blogging Software (with a focus on WordPress) and I am… Read more Blogging before the age of blog software
Lorelle has another Blog Challenge: Testing Your Blog’s Development These are my results. Most of them don’t surprise me (I am a nobody in blogland), except for results of the keyword analysis. Tomorrow I will check the statistics of our Masters of Media site. Live PageRank Alexa Rank: 2,777,061 Google Backlinks: ~21 Average PR: 1.1… Read more Lorelle’s Blog Challenge: Testing Your Blog’s Development
Thanks to Zenphoto and the ZenPress WordPress plugin I have finally put some of my photos online! This clean looking gallery and nicely working plugin were brought to my attention by Lorelle’s great and extensive post on WordPress Plugins for Images, Photographs, and Graphics. I ditched Gallery 2 (way too much hassle to manually remove… Read more Photo gallery online
MA Thesis proposal: Blog Software and the Act of Blogging