Pete Taylor (shameless self publicity)
Adding your site to google buzz
Feb 15th
Bzzzzz
So everyone’s buzzing (sometimes quite angrily) about google’s new attempt to make gmail a bit more social. I noticed that in the list of sites I could connect kimondo.co.uk didn’t appear, yet a few older websites I worked on did show up in the list.
A quick google later and I found this workaround based on editing the page headers:
You can manually associate your site with your account by adding this piece of code to your html code’s header part. Just replace profilename with your Google profile name. Usually takes a few days for Google to pick-up the information.
<link rel=”me” type=”text/html” href=”http://www.google.com/profiles/profilename”/>
However there’s an even quicker way which works almost instantly – just go to the superbly retro-titled google’s webmaster tools and add your site or blog to the list. You can do this with a html file upload or by adding a meta tag to the top of the page to verify the site. Once verified it appears on the list of sites you can add in to buzz.
I claim you
Feb 3rd
I’ve been doing a bit of blog linking so here’s a post for the benefit of Technorati that I own this blog.
I’ve also discovered I can create a google profile and sell my soul completely to the company that ‘does no evil’.
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(Belated) new year resolutions
Jan 13th
Well it’s a bit late but here are my new year resolutions for 2010:
- Go running. Been meaning to do this one for a while. My Nike+ avatar is looking decidedly bored.
- Lose some weight. See point 1. No I’m not going on a diet.
- Write interesting blog posts more often. I’ll freely admit that I need to hone my blogging skills.
- Do more art. I’ve haven’t updated flickr in ages. And I have a lovely 40mm pancake lens to take pictures with.
- Finish more books. And blog about them. See post 3.
I think i’ll stick with four five for the time being – and will get my robot butler to revisit these (after parking my flying car) in 2011.
The power of a tweet…(but annoyingly I’m the only one that will ever know)
Jul 20th
Posted by Pete in Comment
2 comments
An interesting thing happened to me a few evenings ago. I was at one of the iTunes festival gigs in the roundhouse, which featured the eclectic line-up of Mumford and Sons (yawn), the Temper Trap (not bad) and Stephen Fry (yes, that Stephen Fry).
Stephen Fry was there in a warm-up capacity presumably because of his oft-voiced love of the iPhone which he uses to disseminate musings that range from being trapped in lifts, to jogging in New York. However, perhaps rather embarrasingly for Apple, Mr Fry decided to use his spot at the iTunes festival to have a go at the practices of the big music companies in aggressively pursuing illegal downloaders and filesharers.
He spoke out against the ludicrous advert that compares downloading to pinching a handbag or stealing a car. He even fessed up to having bit-torrented a TV show – although covered himself by stating that he had already bought it on iTunes, and for some slightly unusual bandwidth reasons was unable to download it in the normal way.
Now this was all very interesting – and wildly popular with the crowd, however it seemed a little at odds to me. At the bottom of the pdf ticket I’d printed off to turn up at the gig was stated:
So when asked for a bit of feedback I tweeted the following:
Which got slightly paraphrased when he read it on stage. Stephen Fry’s response was that everyone there was filming and photographing and tweeting – and that his speech would probably turn up on YouTube before the evening was out.
Sadly my fifteen minutes of twitter fame (quoted by the great Mr Fry – crikey!) went unnoticed to everyone but me. It even managed to get a blog on the bbc.
Maybe one day my shameless-self-publicity engine won’t let me down!
For more twitter excitement you can follow me at @kimondo
And yes, Stephen Fry did turn up on YouTube:
Stephen Fry talking at iTunes Live