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Ads and Artisteer

Nov 23 2009 / 12:19 am Was written by Amber View Comments

To state the obvious, ads are usually annoying. Usually they are only vaguely related to the content on the page and most of the time it is a highest bidder situation and not one where the website owner actually cares about the product. While this is totally understandable when the money is right, many of [...]

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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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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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Plea to Zemanta

Aug 8 2008 / 11:59 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

You guys are great. Lots of bloggers love your tool. Most of us even dig promoting you with a Zemified or Reblog link. My question is….when can we just make the Reblog link a permanent link in our blog templates, like a feed flare? Being steady users of the service, it is going to be [...]

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WordPress In Your IPhone

Jul 11 2008 / 2:48 am Was written by Amber View Comments

Update 7/22 it is out. Now it is time to do your happy dance. There is now an official WordPress app for the IPhone. No more having to fight Safari to get that post in. Now mobile bloggers can handle their business on the fly at the various cons. And that also means bloggers on [...]

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Blog Me Up c/o Zemanta

Jun 21 2008 / 10:54 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Been meaning to drop a post about Zemanta for a little while now since we use this service for almost all of the posts here at The SDA. When the site first opened up the biggest challenge was finding the best way to not have to tag the entries myself. Various auto-tagger plugins just were [...]

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Disqus Comments

May 30 2008 / 1:50 am Was written by Amber View Comments

Spam annoyed me so much that I signed up for Disqus comments. It seems promising and much more interactive. I tried Intense Debate and Sez Who on my other blogs. To a non-pleasant outcome. Intense Debate refused to install correctly on a blog freshly installed to the server, with no plugins. Sez Who installed easily [...]

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