Posts about blogging
This blog now uses Disqus comments
I've decided to replace my implementation of Django Free Comments and Askismet in favor of a 3rd party product called Disqus. For those unfamiliar with Disqus, here are some reasons why I've chosen this over my own implementation: Disqus allows you login via OpenID and you can obtain a feed of your comments, Internet-wide as RSS, by API. Because of this, you can plug a feed of your comments on any blog, anywhere, like on FriendFeed. Using Disqus allows individuals to include web links and profile photos, whereas Django's Free Comments do not support this. Finally, I get centralized Spam ...
Nerd Alert
I know the going is slow here. I've been doing a lot more nerd blogging over on our Stone Ward Interactive blog. So if you're into web development and other technical subjects, check it out!
Posted on: 2008 March 14
Filed under: Blogging, Django, Programming
Analytics junkies
My friend, super-blogger, and fellow Arsian, Josh Bancroft has a really keen post about how he tracks the various metrics of his personal blog (which gets quite a good bit of traffic!). I will admit it too, I am an analytics junkie too and I use a lot of the same metrics and tools as Josh does to see what content is doing good and where I can make improvements on my site. This is another post that grew from an interesting conversation at work. We were discussing what site statistics/metrics are REALLY important to a blogger. That is, swimming ...
Posted on: 2008 January 09
Filed under: Marketing, Social Networking, Technology
How's my about page?
On my old blog, I talked a little bit about exceptional about pages. I'm one of those people who almost always reads your about page, and I really feel like it's the most important part of someone's website (second to really interesting content, that is.) I'm not the only one either. Have you seen my new "About Clint" page? Anything you'd recommend? Anything else you'd like to know or see? http://blog.clintecker.com/info/about/
Post statistics for 2007
I thought I'd compile a list of statistics about my blogging activity and the attention my site has gotten over the past seven years! Here's the standard stats I took from my Wordpress install over at http://phaedo.cx: 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 Posts 183 172 458 494 448 78 22 Comments 508 292 391 371 220 12 0 Ratio 2.77 1.69 0.85 0.75 0.49 0.15 0.00 Avg. Post Length 1450 841 926 1184 1065 812 499 Total Len of Posts 259k 141k 414k 571k 466k 61.9k 10.7k Here are a few visual representations of this data, courtesy of ...
Welcome to my new blog at clintecker.com
This post marks a very important point in time in my blogging career. I began what is now called "blogging" in April of 2001 with very basic posts like this one, about a month before the end of my sophomore year at Purdue. I was writing more for myself than anything else. I had produced a series of websites on my personal web space during high school (1998-1999) and into my freshman year of college (1999-2000). Over the summer of 2000 when I was taking summer school at Purdue, I had began tinkering with Linux, PHP, MySQL, and making dynamic ...
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