Tag Archives: Blog Testing

Mar 22 2010

Testing Syndicated Posts

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I’m experimenting with syndication and if it is working then this post, originally written on Reluctant Technologist, will also be published on CLT@LSE.  The syndication feature is an add-on called FeedWordPress.  It’s available in the version of WordPress that we … Continue reading

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Mar 16 2007

Embedding YouTube in the Blog

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The other day I made a post with a link to a YouTube video. I tried to embed it using the code that YouTube supplies but this resulted in the blog looking like someone had taken a sledge hammer to … Continue reading

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Aug 2 2006

The Web's New News Thing

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Looking to spot the next MySpace? Consider Digg.com, a “social news” site caught up just now in a scrappy battle with AOL. “Social news,” you ask? [A test using the Digg 'Blog it' link. Read more about digg - ML] … Continue reading

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Mar 3 2006

Elgg Test

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Test post to see if this appears in my Elgg blog http://elgg.net/mattl/weblog/ In theory, you can maintain your own blog outside of Elgg but then use RSS to feed it into Elgg

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Nov 11 2005

Just to see if we can work with child categories

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Here’s a test under Vinayak, which comes under “The Wiki”.

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Nov 2 2005

Writely

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This is a test page produced online with writely by Matt: Steve R showed me this.  The great thing is that you can send it straight to your blog.  Have a look at http://www.writely.com

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Nov 1 2005

Trackbacks

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are more manual pingbacks (see earlier message) When you write a blog message about an article in another blog you need to include a Trackback URL which you get from the other blog. The results is the same as a … Continue reading

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Oct 31 2005

Pingbacks

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Pingbacks and Trackbacks are two features of blogs. I’m still not sure about Trackbacks but i think I have Pingbacks sussed! When you post an article to our blog any other blog articles you mention in your article are ‘pinged’ … Continue reading

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Oct 28 2005

Purpose / Use of CLT Blog(s)

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In the team meeting today Steve R suggested opening this blog to the wider world. This seems a good a place as any to discuss this… Ahead of having our own blog server it would be good to think about … Continue reading

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Oct 26 2005

Multi-user Blog tools

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This appears to be a useful review of various blogging tools. WordPress comes out prety well

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