Increasing the number of your subscribers is (or should be!) one of any blogger's goal. You write to be hopefully read, and your subscribers are people you are sure do read you. Now, what about increasing effortlessly your loyal readership by (at least) 20%? Twitter is a fun little tool I've never really found any need for. I actually use…
Something seems to be broken between Feedburner and Netvibes. Yesterday, Planet WordPress was showing off a cool 1050 feed readers, and today the counter has dropped down to 267. After logging in Feedburner's control panel to check some stats, I found out that: Netvibes users are not counted any longer Netvibes user count used to be… odd. Stats from last…
Just two more feed readers and I'll break the 300 mark… Subscribe ppplease! :)
Today I felt like tidying a bit Planet WordPress, an unofficial aggregation of feeds about WordPress I've been maintaining for about 2 years now. The thing was fetching about 80 feeds, of which about a half were… dead, missing in action, or just inactive. It quickly appeared to me than manually reviewing 80 feeds would be tedious. And it quickly…
google adsense sparklines: a really nice hack of my own Adsense to RSS Feed script. I love it when people make completely unexpected usage of stuff I write :)
It was quicker than expected, because a kind reader was too impatient for an update so he fixed the script himself :) Thanks to Chris Gibson, my Adsense Earnings RSS Feed is now version 1.1, which is compatible with the recent changes Google made with the query parameters. Thanks a lot Chris !
My Adsense Earnings to RSS script has stopped functionning a couple of days ago, since Google modified the pages my script parses to generate an RSS feed. Stay tuned : I'll update my script later on within the next few days when I have a moment. Sorry for the inconvenience peeps !
Another cool thing with GreatNews I've just noticed : when you copy one of those rather gay and non-standard URLs that use the fake protocol feed:// (i.e. sites linking to feed://domain.com/feed/), GreatNews converts it into a plain standard and expected http:// link.
FeedLounge 20 seconds review.
Microsoft adopts Mozilla's standard