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Facebook feed changes and you

By ~LS~ On November 12, 2009 · 3 Comments · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Facebook, Interface Value, Money

Confused about the difference between news feed and live feed on Facebook? Me too. The whole new new Facebook annoyed and confused me. I finally googled it to see wtf was going on. What I learned was interesting.

The biggest change on Facebook felt like the whole live and news feed thing. That was the most obvious one. We all quickly figured out how to drag our status feed to the top of the links menu on the left. That was supposed to restore the old Facebook, but it didn’t since all the feeds are now split into status, links, pages, etc., plus the new Live Feed and News Feed. So, here’s the difference between all the feeds, which is obvious if you think about it:

Live Feed: A feed of everything in Facebook. In addition to status updates, this includes friends’ quiz results, Mob Wars and Farmville announcements, [...]

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Fonts and Fontburner for WordPress

By ~LS~ On October 23, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Apps, Blogging, Voxygen

October 7, 2009 update: I returned to FLIR. I didn’t notice much of a different in pageload time and I there’s only one or two fonts available from Fontburner that I actually like. So, yay, it’s back to Freehand 471 for me!

Today I changed fonts. I went from Freehand 471, which I really like, to a font called Inkydinky. Silly name, but then most fonts have silly names. I changed because I was playing around with Fontburner and it seemed quicker and less taxing than FLIR, which is what I was previously using. I didn’t like the way that FLIR loaded up the headings’ default font and then switched over to the fancy font. I thought the pages looked sort of blinky. Fontburner stores the fonts for your WordPress site on their server. Unfortunately, Fontburner’s server appears to be slow and their font choices [...]

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Widgets, apps, plugins, and other lovely things

By ~LS~ On October 8, 2009 · 1 Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Apps, Blogging, Voxygen

I love widgets, apps, plugins, and add-ons. I don’t know why I get such a kick out of these little programs, but I do. On facebook? Not so much. But on other things, yes. I am seriously considering getting a Blackberry or iPhone or some such device just so I can get more apps. So here’s a list of my apps and things:

WordPress:

Add This Social Bookmarking Widget
Akismet (of course)
Breadcrumb NavXT (neat little breadcrumb at the bottom of the page)
Clean Options (cleans up code from deleted plugins)
Collapsible Archive Widget (accordians the month/year archive in the sidebar; this one is code-heavy and increases page-load time)
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator (I love this one; it generates the sitemap page)
Exclude Pages From Navigation (standard)
Feedburner Feedsmith (standard)
FLIR for WordPress (the thing that changes my font; also increases page-load [...]

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The World 2.0

By ~LS~ On September 21, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Technology, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Technoculture

* I can’t remember the last time I heard a busy signal.

Busy signals have disappeared due to voice mail and call waiting, a phenomenon that happened somewhere in the 90s. Perhaps we could think of it as an early step in the direction of 24/7 accessibility and connection via new communication technologies. Although, looking backward, I suppose we can say the same thing for the invention of the telephone, telegraph, printing press, and writing itself. Still, the loss of the busy signal bespeaks a “jacked-in-ness” that I don’t think those older information technologies share.

* The Guiding Light has gone off the air after 72 years. I used to watch that show with my grandmother when I was ten.

Soap operas are disappearing left and right, something easily explained by a double dynamic of [...]

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Googol it!

By ~LS~ On September 17, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: For Wordies, Silliness, Trivia

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Those Whacky, Peppery, Obama-y Nigerian Scams

By ~LS~ On August 28, 2009 · Add Comment · In Humor, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Nigerian Scam

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Facebook feed changes and you

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