Getting the new Google author meta working

August 07 Comments Off on Getting the new Google author meta working Category: Actual, Code, Web Design, Wordpress

So I decided this morning that I wanted to get the new author meta information working on my main blog. The goal being that when an article from HackText shows up in a Google Search it will show a nice thumbnail of me with a link to my Google Profile on the Google search page. […]

Carnival of Journalism: Hack your life with the Kindle, After the Deadline and more

June 09 Comments Off on Carnival of Journalism: Hack your life with the Kindle, After the Deadline and more Category: Feed, HackText

This month’s Carnival of Journalism asks: how do you hack your life? What tools and techniques allow you to work smarter and more effectively? There are four big things I want to focus on in this post. How my Kindle makes me a better worker and a more reliable journalist. Why After the Deadline makes […]

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Links 3-31-11: Blogger’s new look, A tell-all telephone, Microsoft v Google

April 01 Comments Off on Links 3-31-11: Blogger’s new look, A tell-all telephone, Microsoft v Google Category: Actual, Links

Today Microsoft asked the same European regulators who deemed them them anti-competitive to consider Google’s behavior monopolistic.

Links 3-30-11: +1, Project Thunderdome, Amazon’s consumer cloud, Against gamification

March 30 Comments Off on Links 3-30-11: +1, Project Thunderdome, Amazon’s consumer cloud, Against gamification Category: Actual, Links

The big news of the day is Google’s partial launch of +1, a very geeky answer to the Like or Retweet button. In a move inspired by forum websites of the late 90s, Google is testing a product that allows you to “+1” search results.