New real time stat provider for bloggers

I can’t express how much I’ve needed news of a new and improved traffic statistics provider. Statcounter is, well, it’s Statcounter. Not much too it except that the 100 visits you get to see are some what in real time. Sitemeter is untrustworthy, and a system that I’ve never felt comfortable using.
Google Analytics is decent, [...]

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Changing themes AGAIN!

Yeah, I changed themes yet again.
I really liked the last one, but it was taking WAY too much time to load. It only took two e-mails from readers to realize it wasn’t just me. The theme was slow. Period.
Plus I was getting quite a few errors in the code and I know the high and [...]

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Ask and ye shall receive

My earlier post requesting a Digg Widget hit the front page of Digg and slammed me with 7,000 visits today. The extra chunk of visits was nice, but the real bonus was the Digg Widgets that came with it.
The first one to come along was Mike’s version in the form of a Wordpress Plugin.
From the [...]

Filed under: Social Networking, blogging, wordpress

New Wordpress Plugin: Digg Widget

My purpose for posting on the suggested Digg Widget is already bearing fruit.
Vino2Vino’s Mike jumped right on the challenge by pumping out a fairly simple Wordpress plugin that will display a user’s friend list of recent Diggs.
You can see the plugin in action here.
This is headed in the right direction, but it doesn’t yet have [...]

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New Wordpress Theme

As you can see, I’ve gone with a new theme on the blog. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for some time now, but just haven’t gotten around to it.
This theme is a lot easier to manage and seems to be a lot friendlier on browsers and load times. Plus, the colors are simply much [...]

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