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Tech, Life, & Stuff…

A Blog by Franklin Pettit

July 29, 2008

Down with FriendFeed Etiquette

Posted by : Franklin Pettit

I am against FriendFeed etiquette. Over the past few months I have seen several suggestions and discussions about “FriendFeed Etiquette.” I would characterize all incidents as innocent suggestions by users trying to solve small problems they were having with FriendFeed.
Incidents
The first example I saw of this was Duncan Riley mentioning FriendFeed etiquette. He [...]


July 29, 2008

The HTML Fieldset

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : HTML

This is just a quick post about something I learned the other day. Do you learn everyday on the internet? I do. I thought I would share something very simple that some bloggers might want to use.
What is an HTML fieldset and why would you want to know? W3schools [...]


July 29, 2008

Startup Customer Service

Posted by : Franklin Pettit

I upgraded this blog last week to Wordpress 2.6. Prior to the upgrade I had been using a custom permalink structure. Upon upgrading from 2.5 to 2.6 the link structure would not display individual posts.
As I a result I changed my permalink structure to one of the defaults and my blog began displaying [...]


July 16, 2008

Toluu Releases Feed Preview

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : Enhancements, Toluu

Toluu updated again this morning releasing another great feature.  The latest feature is Feed preview functionality throughout the site.  When you mouseover a Feed title a window is revealed listing the last 5 blog posts contained in that feed.

I spoke to Caleb Elston the Toluu founder about this feature.  He said,

“We actually decided to build [...]


July 15, 2008

Declaring Your Social Media Independence

Posted by : Franklin Pettit

The Evolution of Social Media
I read an article this morning titled “The Evolution Of Wordpress.”  Wordpress is the fabulous CMS software that powers this blog.  Hack wordpress a great blog that I read was commenting on the changes and improvements the Wordpress software has seen.
In the same way the advances in Social media are dramatic.  [...]


July 8, 2008

Forget the Blogging Formulas

Posted by : Franklin Pettit
Filed under : Blogging

“Write what you want to because the rest is bologna” was a post I wrote about breaking the blogging formulas.  This is a followup post to make a different point.
Forget the blogging formulas.  Blogging is not an exact science.  That is why we are all different.  As human beings there are no 2 bloggers who [...]


About Franklin

I coined this blog "Tech, Life, & Stuff" for lack of a better description. This blog is primarily about my view on tech from South Carolina. I am a South Carolina software developer. More>

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