Tag: blogging
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WordPress 3.3: It looks great!
WordPress team just announced that the new version of WordPress is available. It’s WordPress 3.3 “Sonny”. Matt posted some notes about this release. I have WordPress for multi-site installation, and since the previous upgrade went smoothly — except some minor issues — I had no reasons not to upgrade. It was easy, just took few…
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Ke Yahoo! Community Town Hall
Akhir bulan April yang lalu, saya dihubungi oleh salah satu perwakilan dari Yahoo! Indonesia untuk berpartisipasi dalam acara Yahoo! Community Town Hall di Jakarta. Bisa dikatakan saya tidak tahu banyak sebelumnya tentang Yahoo! Community Town Hall tersebut. Salah satu bentuk partisipasi yang diharapkan adalah berbagi informasi atau pengalaman seputar salah satu produk layanan Yahoo!, yaitu…
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Are you using WordPress' Post Formats feature?
If you have upgraded your WordPress installation to the latest version (right now, it’s Version 3.1), you can take advantage of its “Post Formats” feature. So, what is it anyway? WordPress Codex explains: A Post Format is a piece of meta information that can be used by a theme to customize its presentation of a…
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Earth Hour 2011 and Discussion at Obrolan Langsat
Last night, I was going to Obrolan Langsat and joined the discussion about Earth Hour. Yes, this is an issue, but I’m not calling myself good at this. Every month, I pay the electricity bill for my grand parents’ house — and I don’t experience a big changes on the bill every month. May be,…
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Videoblog. Again.
With my friend, I decided to create a new videoblog. Previously, I had one at orangebox.tv, but since I was busy and almost had no time to maintain it, I left the domain expired. Now, it has a new domain name, with a new concept. I will not talk about technology or other geeky stuff.…
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Posterouseptember: Posterous Features in September
This September, Posterous blogging service released some new features and improvements. If you’re not familiar with Posterous — or never heard about it before, it’s a service that will help you put something online. You can post text, photos, videos and also documents. The big difference is that you can do it directly from your…
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Hey, Twitter will gain entry in dictionary?
Twitter‘s popularity increases very fast among the other microblogging application these days. You already know that in 2004, Merriam-Webster dictionary included the word “blog” as Merriam-Webster’s #1 Word of the Year for 2004. Blog is defined as: [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and…
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Mentioned brands on Twitter
Brand Republic released a list of 100 most mentioned brands on popular microblogging service, Twitter. Here are the top ten (order by how many these brands were mentioned): Starbucks Google BBC Apple AIG Amazon Microsoft Guardian Dell Coca-Cola Do all of those brands — and the rest on the list — have their own Twitter…
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Fenomena halaman Facebook tentang Say “NO!!!” to …
Saya tahu pertama kali tentang salah satu halaman di layanan jejaring sosial Facebook yang menkampanyekan tentang ‘Say “NO!!!” to Megawati’ justru bukan dari Facebook, melainkan dari layanan microblogging Twitter. Karena terus terang, saya lebih aktif memanfaatkan Twitter daripada Facebook. Yang menarik — bagi saya — justru lebih kepada informasi yang bertebaran di halaman tersebut. Sepertinya…
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JaikuEngine released as an open source project
In 2007, Google acquired Jaiku. I have an account there, but I don’t use Jaiku actively. I don’t know why, but I just felt that this service is not for me. This month, JaikuEngine was released as an open source project. It’s available at Google App Engine. Google will not develop Jaiku code base and…
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Online Journalism Handbook
The Bighow Online Journalism Handbook A free online resource for journalists, bloggers, citizen journalists and anyone else interested in publishing. The handbook covers the basics of online reporting, writing for the web and social web, citizen journalism, professional blogging, how to use Facebook and Twitter, how to deal with censorship, list of citizen journalism websites…
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When Your Flickr Pro Account Expired
I decided to leave my Flickr Pro account expired for some moments. I know, it’s probably not a good decision. What does my Flickr look like right now? What happens to an expired account? At least, I know the answers. Here are few things I found: Flickr free account limits apply now for my account.…
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Good Bye and Hello Videoblogging!
If you read my blog, you might know that I have started my videoblog few months ago. If you follow me via Twitter, yo might heard about my video-related website: orangebox.tv. So, it is time to say “good bye” and “hello”. “Good bye“… because I want to discontinue my videoblog at video.orangescale.com. I will stop…