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Antisocial Socialites

Dec 1 2009 / 12:38 am Was written by Amber View Comments

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I get it. You want to sound like an authority on something. All the other authorities have said something is dead, but you want to fit in so you swirl the words around in a cup and say it is dead on your blog as well.
That’s lovely.
Now can you shut up [...]

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7 Resources For Creating Habari Themes

Apr 5 2009 / 1:31 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

As mentioned here before. on my personal blog I decided to install Habari. While I still enjoy working with WordPress here and elsewhere, I have found Habari suits my personal blog quite well since I do not need all the bells and whistles which I use elsewhere.
Unfortunately, the one thing the platform does lack [...]

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Social Media Reactions

Apr 2 2009 / 1:34 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

A little while back the folks at Mashable teamed up the Disqus guys and UberVU to amp up the Disqus commenting system. The goal of Disqus and UberVU was for the blogger to get the discussion back at the blogs and not just spread out over the social media sites. It was a lovely idea [...]

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Habari: You Know You Wanna

Jan 23 2009 / 9:33 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

As you can tell from some link love, we use WordPress here at SDA. This is one of the many programs available to setup a blog. Some of us are fond a particular blogging platform. But once I have one under my thumb, I like to try something new. Of all the other platforms to [...]

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Easy Websites

Dec 13 2008 / 11:30 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

We all love the web and would like to put our stamp on it somewhere, some of us are just better at putting websites together than others. Because of this, a bunch of folks took the time out to build some services to help out the less apt. It’s probably been a bit since someone [...]

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Another One Down, This Time Its Personal

Dec 1 2008 / 6:23 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Back when I started this site, it was completely free. Built on Blogger, images hosted at photobucket, and email provided through a service that had just sprung up at AOL: My eAddress. At the time this was fantastic because I could pick an email for the site which was close to the domain that I [...]

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Automattic + PollDaddy= Win

Oct 15 2008 / 11:10 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

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One thing I could never get to work the way I wanted in WordPress for a long time was a good plugin for polls and surveys. Had to give up on the available set and writing the code out myself–which was not pretty. Then PollDaddy showed up to save the day.
If you ever [...]

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