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- urdumania1
"There are two kinds of people in the world: Disney people and Bugs Bunny people. Disney people want to deny reality and live the fantasy. Bugs Bunny people deny the fantasy and make fun of reality." - Paul
Was that a Paul original? I'd have to say I'm with Sparky...
- Eric Borisch
The wording was a little different, but yeah. It would be interesting to see how cartoon preference correlates with other things. For example, I would expect that Disney people are more likely to be political extremists (left and right).
- Paul Buchheit
That's interesting Paul. I see the very flip of that; most of my hardcore Disney friends (most of them work(ed) for Disney) are very uninterested in politics, whereas the WB fans are extremely political.
- Anika
Disney wins at yet another level. It is not only interested in erasing the real by turning it into a three-dimensional virtual image with no depth, but it also seeks to erase time by synchronizing all the periods, all the cultures, in a single traveling motion, by juxtaposing them in a single scenario. Thus, it marks the beginning of real, punctual and unidimensional time, which is also...
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- zeroinfluencer
Disney is the 'real' America, everything else is faux, so says Baudrillard
- zeroinfluencer
Tumblr users...what's your experience with google rankings for your blogs? The one reason I don't use Tumblr properly is because of generally poor search engine rankings. Am I imagining it or are they definitely worse than standard wordpress blogs?
Mine are fine. Google PageRank says I have a 3 but I only launched it a few weeks ago. If you search for internet detour (the site is http://internetdetour.com) it comes up first and I can find my stuff on some other searches. Not terrible at all.
- Sweyn Venderbush
I don't track search rankings for my tumblr blog.
- jbrotherlove
@Sweyn, what about for individual posts? I tried searching for a few of them and couldn't find one on google when just searching by the post title
- Zee.
There's something wrong with Tumblr rankings for sure. Even my empty "coming soon" page with the same address was GR:2 now I'm on tumblr and it's GR:1! Seems like Google is punishing everyone who opts to use Tumblr. The subject domain is http://mindcast.org for example.
- Berk D. Demir
Zee, even with the juice of a newspaper linking to my tumblr blog, it performs so poorly in search results (and this is with custom page names) that I've stopped caring about page rank entirely. What matters is the content being available for easy importation into other services (Friendfeed) and websites (mine or other like minded ones).
- Brandon Mendelson
Shocking Brandon...I need to dig into this and find out why
- Zee.
Some SEO may be needed. See the following. Replace BLOG TITLE as needed.
- aptjauder
Try using these and see how they work for you. YMMV.
- aptjauder
Hey thanks apt, it's not really for me, because i'm quite happy where I am. But i was considering writing a story about why it was the case and how it could be fixed, so that will still help - thank you
- Zee.
My poorly setup and maintained non-SEO optimised WP blog far exceeds hits than my regularly updated Tumblr.
- Threepwood
It's partially about how certain things are set up which matter a lot to Google. For example, mindcast.org uses a consistent title across the board for all posts which makes it very hard for Google to tell them apart. Optimizing <title>, <h1>, meta title and description tags *should* help.
- aptjauder
I am with Jbrotherlove - I don't check the google stuff on it.
- Brent - Yes I am
A Wordpress blog, even a bog standard one without any SEO plugins, is search engine friendly with a simple custom permalink.
- Gilbert Harding
One thing to note. I think WP does generate a sitemap and afaik, there is no way to generate/submit one for tumblr. If someone else knows how to...
- aptjauder
Another reason is that the rss generated by Tumblr cannot be used to submit as a sitemap. The short urls result in a 301 to the long url which google does not like. Complain to tumblr if you care about this. You can see this if you use GWT and look under sitemap details.
- aptjauder
Tumblr is a lot of noise. Most Tumblr blogs are about lolcats and random Rick Astley crap. I could understand how a search engine could dismiss *.tumblr.com as low quality. For best pagerank always have a full yourdomain.com URL so your content can stand alone in indexes.
- Sparky, lurking
Sparky, many folks, including myself, are using full domains for our Tumblr blogs and still getting poor results.
- Brandon Mendelson
Tumblr itself is PR 7 so pretty good. Keep in mind many tumblr blogs do not contain a lot of text which also accounts for lowered results.
- aptjauder
Just found http://tumblrmap.net/ which will generate an xml sitemap of your tumblr blog - I'm trying it out now and see it makes any difference.
- Tyler Wainright
Robert these 13000 people would not know what to do on Friendfeed and leave in less than 5 minutes of signing up.
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
this isn't the first or the last group like it, it's a good indicator of which of your friends are morons.
- Richard Lawler
Eldon: I hope I don't have that many idiots following me. :-)
- Robert Scoble
How about emails like these: "Bill Gates/Nokia/whatever will donate <something>, if this message is sent to 1000000 people". When I get something like this from some friend, I get disappointed on him/her...
- Jemm
there are 100 of these groups each week... everyone ignores them (well everyone important anyway ;))
- Thomas
Funny thing is - facebook is probably worth $3.99. Although I notice the French says $3.99 per month which would be a bit steep.
- Matthew Neale
but wait, i thought hotmail was closing the free service unless 2 million people add group Z ?
- Matt Randles
These groups are as old as Facebook itself. All they do is prove: heavy Facebook users = lemmings. :p
- Chris Charabaruk
There will always be a VIP group of sorts... back when Facebook started it looked like early adaptors were joining over there. Then came Twitter, now Friendfeed. If Friendfeed gets too mainstream (if that's possible) I'm wondering what's next.
- David Bisset (sn)
Why would they do that? They are already getting tons of money from sponsors and advertisers. Duh!
- Shevonne
@David: In the Web 2.0 world, there's bound to be something new and already in the works. I wonder what it is too, but I'd be surprised if it's not currently under construction, or even ready to launch.
- Chris Charabaruk
I wouldn't call them idiots. If they believe it, they believe it. So if it happens are the non-believers idiots? Hmmm
- Bwana ☠
:/... I doubt it will happen. They get enough money from advertising surely.
- ralphsaunders
This was the funniest quote I've seen microblogged in a while! Of course how many of these people use to (or still do) pay for Classmates or Reunion, so naturally they believe this garbage.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Reminds me of the false rumors a few years ago about AOL, Yahoo, and MS planning to charge for email to eliminate spam. Move on - nothing to see here.
- Mike Doeff
It's already 39,265 members in that certain group…
- Daniel Schildt
One thing to notice in this compared to older rumors is the amount of speed people notice it.
- Daniel Schildt
I might join and post something saying "Suckas!"
- Shevonne
40,000 now. Wow. I kind of enjoy the silly little worries of people.
- Daniel Zarick
wow. morons. Everybody knows that friendfeed's not gonna start charging until 2010!
- Vicarbott
These are the same idiots who are worried about being charged per email. I don't think they'd know what to do with friendfeed even if they were invited.
- Mr. Gunn
I wonder how many are over the age 0f 17. How many of voting age are in the group of 13,000.
- Franklin Pettit
I swear that first sentence just made my blood pressure shoot up 20 points. The second sentence rapidly lowered it. I have a few people added who unfortunately take everything forwarded to them as fact. They will never get an invite. This is my hideout from the people who shouldn't be allowed online.
- ilene
Chris, the group is not about pro features. They claim there will be NO free access to FB after Dec 31. Quite a different thing...
- Ray Metzen
And the group has 56,000 members now! Amazing... :(
- Ray Metzen
More than ever… 91,481 members at the moment of writing.
- Daniel Schildt
Hmm... I'm not sure which disappoints me more... People being overly anxious over the idea that Facebook will supposedly be charged for use. (This evidentially isn’t true) Or the knowledge that a number of people I don't care to count are here on FriendFeed discussing those that have joined groups concerning Facebook fees as if they are second class citizens. Take a good look at...
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- Jamie Howlett
funny thing is people not wanting to pay when there getting new games and apps that can keep you entertained if it did cost (which it never will) i sure would pay the Cheap $3.99 month
- Luke Moers
Of course Facebook is going to start Charging people money! Everyone knows it! By the way, did you hear Obama tried to move Christmas to January 8th? (its a fb group too so it must be real!!)
- Rebecca
"Yesterday a reader sent us a pretty funny screen capture of a Sears product page with a suspicious category description (see above). By the time we got around to checking it out, Sears had corrected the error. It turns out, however, that the real problem was the Sears website was built in a way that let anyone mess with the category descriptions."
- AJ Batac :)
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Thanks anyway, Kate. I know that your heart, if not your Twitter, was in it.
- GrayFoxDown
Anything I like here does appear in my Twitter feed, so it will be seen. Not sure what's happening with Twitter, I had the same problem last time it went down, it just wouldn't work for me at all.
- Kate
Twitter appears to be working just fine here. However,I once said that about my car, seconds before it fell apart in the middle of the road.
- GrayFoxDown
"Chris - I use a screen-capturing tool for Macs called ScreenFlow. It allows me to record from 4 sources at once (eyesight, mic, computer sounds, screen), add additional media (music in this case), edit (zooming, callouts), and publish in any format. Hope that helps!"
- John: @johnhaydon
I'm not sure it works well publicly but if you are one of my GReader followers (you can follow me here: http://www.google.com/reader...) then you can comment and see all comments from your followers here: http://www.google.com/reader... Or you could import the RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/KolTreg... back into GReader and comment and share that way. What I did for the FF 'lifestream' feed was grab the RSS feed for 'service:friendfeed' seacrh results so to avoid any duplicates. One thing I cannot add is, of course, my GReader Shared Items, but I'm playing around to get that to work... ;-) Oh, if you want more people to follow see this long thread: http://ff.im/6mh5s
- Kol Tregaskes
It's too confusing. I mean the reader, not your layout, Kol. Maybe, I just need to get used to it. I've just been reading stuff in it for so long... It's hard to find the shared items page. I'm just frustrated.
- Kimber Scott
"Wordpress is easily the best and most robust blogging platform available today. Part of the reason for the success and “staple” status of Wordpress is due to the availability of thousands of plugins that can take your blogging experience from novice to pro overnight."
- Nilesh
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"If you’ve been reading some of the previous WordPress-related articles here on Smashing Magazine, you’ll know that WordPress is much more than a blogging platform. It can be used as a CMS, too. And WordPress widgets are a powerful tool in your WordPress development arsenal. When you think of WordPress widgets, you may think they’re just a way to rearrange various items in your blog’s sidebar without touching any code. Sure, that’s nice and all, but that’s really just the tip of the iceberg of all the things WordPress widgets can do."
- Nilesh
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