Blogs are frequently updated websites, often of a personal nature.
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How can I show color-coded Python snippets in my Tumblr blog
I have a Tumblr-managed blog, on which I post a lot of Python-related posts. How do I make the Python snippets in my posts show color-coded?
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6answers
540 views
How to turn a blog into a book?
Does anyone have any experience converting a blog into a book, and if so:
What software did you use?
How was your experience?
I use Wordpress for my blogging.
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6answers
4k views
How can I backup my wordpress.com hosted blog?
I have a blog hosted on wordpress.com, and I'd like to back it up.
How can I do that?
12
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6answers
296 views
Web resources for specific types of funny pictures? [closed]
No, not lolcats. And I'm not really looking for a specific site, either.
I have often wished that I had some funny picture to illustrate a presentation, a website, a post, an email, or something ...
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3answers
344 views
How can I backup my blogspot.com hosted blog?
I have a blog hosted on blogspot.com, and I'd like to back it up.
How can I do that?
6
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4answers
431 views
How can I put a Twitter “tweet” in my Blog
Currently I think I would just screen shot a popular tweet from @aplusk or someone else I am trying to reference but
I am always stuck with cropping
People say I could have "photoshopped" it and it ...
6
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3answers
2k views
Can I automatically post something I write for one blog to my other blogs?
I write a blog at some site. When I write a new post to that site, is there a way to automatically post it to my WordPress and Blogger blogs as well?
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2answers
129 views
Mapping the link network between websites (blogs)?
I wish to create a link map between blogs so to reflect the "social network" between bloggers.
Such a service would take a starting point of a blog or two, and start adding links and mapping the ...
6
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1answer
188 views
Automatically cleaning up Google Reader for now defunct blogs
I am having hundreds of feeds in my Google Reader. Some of the feeds have ceased to work (technically) or have not received new posts for years. Would there be some kind of automatic way to clean-up ...
6
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3answers
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Blog/Wiki Hybrid?
I want to start a blog that has public editing rules, like a wiki. Is there such a thing?
Edit: That is also hosted (like Blogger) or a method I can host it on a web space (such as Google Pages)
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2answers
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Facebook “share link” feature feature for Blogger, Google Buzz, or other Blogs?
Facebook has a nice share feature to share links.
When I share a link on Facebook, I paste a URL into the status box (The box which says "What's on your mind?"). Facebook will automatically populate ...
6
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1answer
245 views
Importing RSS items into Facebook
I want to import my (Wordpress-based) blog entries into my Facebook account to share them with my FB friends.
FB already has a built-in function to create Notes based on RSS items. The problem is ...
6
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0answers
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Best Way to Retrieve Over 500 Deleted Blog Posts from Caches? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Recovering a lost website with no backup?
SITUATION: My blog was recently hacked and over 500 posts were deleted. I have restored the security of the blog, but stupidly ...
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3answers
340 views
What's a good .NET based blogging engine? [closed]
What is a good .NET based blogging engine?
And why would you recommend it.
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5answers
126 views
What are some good Web Tools to help me format my code for blogs?
What are some good Web Tools to help me format my code for blogs?
I'd like to be able to copy & paste my code into textbox/textarea and have the web tool format it nicely for various popular ...
5
votes
4answers
469 views
What's the best way to read through the archives of a blog?
I need a piece of software which would make it easy for me to systematically read through the archives of a blog.
Manually going through the archives is a pain. I want to be able to check off what ...
4
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3answers
457 views
Should it be called a 'blog entry' or a 'blog post'?
I see these terms used interchangeably, and I actually wanna stick to one. Which of the two is better and why? Which sees more common usage?
4
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1answer
270 views
Changing messy Tumblr URL
On Tumblr we keep getting really messy URLs generated for our blog posts. Is there any way that this can be changed?
For instance, in the example bellow, the blogs title is ‘Playing with scale and ...
4
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1answer
65 views
Blog reading and following for busy people
There are lots of RSS readers out there, but they just flood you with a big list of all the posts from the site to date. For those of us who are time-starved, but still like to keep in touch in a ...
4
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2answers
203 views
Syndicate all posts and photos made to facebook
My family has a website that helps to keep us all in constant contact with each other. Recently a good number of the younger family members have started to use facebook. Our little family website is ...
4
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4answers
5k views
Download Blogspot blog in HTML
Is there a way to download an entire Blogspot blog in HTML format, without the ads and associated cruft?
4
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2answers
569 views
How to add a “Contact me” form to a blog hosted on Blogger?
After doing some research, I know I need to create a new page and add a form to it.
Is that the best way? Doesn't Blogger have appropriate built-in feature?
What form service can you recommend? ...
4
votes
1answer
663 views
How to embed audio only from YouTube videos
My Question: Is there a way to change the embed code or some javascript I can run in a blogger blog to embed only the audio of a YouTube video in my blog posts?
My specific situation: I have a ...
4
votes
1answer
67 views
Is there a bookmarklet that will let me email a selection from a website and its corresponding URL?
I use Posterous for blogging, and do all of my posting through Mail.app
I do a lot of kottke-sullivan-style posts in this format:
The New York Times reports:
Blah blah blah
Interesting.
But what ...
4
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1answer
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Not all pages are visible in my blogspot
I created some pages in my Blogspot but only 3 of them are visible (see the second picture). What do I have to do/change to make it show all the pages I created?
4
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0answers
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My blogspot domain to a custom domain is not redirecting properly
My Blogspot domain http://www.jimankandeka.blogspot.com was redirected to http://www.withjim.com almost a year ago. Though the site works fine half the time, other half it shows an error which I have ...
3
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4answers
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How to visualize data online?
I want to be able to do visualization of some raw data, be able to draw different kinds of graphs etc, and be able to post an interactive drawing on my map.
I know that Tableau Public does just ...
3
votes
1answer
390 views
What blog reading websites are Kindle friendly?
My favorite blog reading applications are ajax heavy sites that are likely to crash the "experimental" browser on the Kindle.
What web site can I use to aggregate my favorite RSS feeds and get an ...
3
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2answers
4k views
Embedding audio into Blogspot blog with player interface
I'm trying to upload and/or embed some audio files into my blog, hosted on Google's Blogspot, but cannot seem to do so. The three audio files, about 2.5 hours of recording, total about 35MB in size of ...
3
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3answers
522 views
Where can I get themes for my Posterous Blog
They only have a few options and when you compare to other blog services it seems very lacking. I'm hoping there's some sort of repository out there I haven't bumped into yet.
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3answers
132 views
Blog site with existing domain name
I would like to have a blog site, though I have created my own by writing the code. Huhhh... hosting cost is killing me. I have my domain name with me and I just wanted to get the blog where I can use ...
3
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2answers
147 views
App for live blogging from Blackberry to WordPress
I'm looking for an app that will let me post content to single WordPress post, inserting each new "post" either at the top or bottom of the article, with a timestamp. I know there's already an WP app ...
3
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2answers
3k views
How do you remove Disqus “comments” from Tumblr pages?
How do you remove Disqus "comments" link from Tumblr pages?
I've managed to remove the Disqus comment box from all pages, so it only appears after posts. I used the following code:
...
3
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2answers
586 views
Replacement for Facebook feature “imported stories”
What is a good replacement for the Facebook feature "imported stories" that allowed you to import content from other sites like RSS Feeds, Picasa, Google Reader etc. Facebook recently disabled the ...
3
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2answers
6k views
How to post under a page in Blogger
I have multiple pages in my blog. Now I want to post in different page.
Example:
Page 1: Local
Page 2: National
Page 3: International
Post 1: Local Topic 1
Post 2: National Topic 1
Post 2: ...
2
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3answers
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Blogging advice, source code [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to post source code in Blogger?
I try to blog in blogger.com.
it's ok for text and images, but every time I want to put source code, it's a pain...
Here in ...
2
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5answers
498 views
Blog + forum CMS?
I need a fast, scalable PHP/MySQL solution that would have two main sections:
a basic blogging tool, so that the site maintainers can write articles about upcoming events to be posted on the front ...
2
votes
1answer
151 views
How should I format the HTML of my blog posts in Blogger?
For convenience, I write all my blog posts in bare HTML. Everything seems to be working, but I see that sometimes, Blogger's WYSIWYG editor wraps everything up in a <div> and uses <p> ...
2
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1answer
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How to find many (all?) of the blogs dealing with “X”?
I wish to find all the blogs who are dealing with a topic.
For example: "restaurant reviews"
The first thing I would do is to google "restaurant review blog" and start going through the list.
The ...
2
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3answers
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Need a blogging engine that accepts markdown
Context: I have just spent half an hour written a long proposal to be posted on MSO. However, the more I think about it, the less I like it. I would still like to be able to share it with the world, ...
2
votes
3answers
450 views
A straw poll widget to add CNN-style polls on one's own website or blog
Wufoo.com is very nice (maybe overkill with the features) but it's missing one thing I really want for a simple straw poll: when you answer the straw poll question, the question itself should ...
2
votes
2answers
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How do I delete a tumblr blog?
I have 2 tumblr blogs, and one of them I didn't mean to make, is there a way to completly delete it from my account?
2
votes
1answer
485 views
How to make Blogger show the last modified date of any post?
How can I make Blogger show the last modified date of a post?
When I edit an old post in Blogger, is there anyway to list the last modified date somewhere? anywhere?
2
votes
1answer
251 views
Creating duplicate posts from my WordPress blog over to Posterous
How do I set up my WordPress blog to also post those entries at Posterous?
I have the RSS feed from the WordPress site and would like to have it replicate over to the Posterous one without having to ...
2
votes
1answer
271 views
Disabling a blogspot/blogger blog after losing access to the owner e-mail account
I need to remove a blogspot (AKA Blogger) blog from the Internet. I made it over five years ago, and I no longer have access to the e-mail account that it was created with. As a result, I have no way ...
2
votes
2answers
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How to import MSN live blog to wordpress.com blog?
I have my blog at http://vgnam2404.spaces.live.com and I want to move all of the posts (and comments) to my wordpress blog at http://namgivu.wordpress.com. I don't know how to do this. Please help if ...
2
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2answers
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My Tumblr blog disappeared
Did something like that ever happen to anyone ?
My Tumblr blog disappeared (http://blog.gitwatcher.com).
I've already emailed the support, but no response at all.
(last) UPDATE
... in responce ...
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2answers
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Map Blog pages to different custom URLs
I have a subdomain currently pointing towards a blog I write on Blogger.
I would like to add a new page to this blog and point an entirely separate subdomain to that page.
So, given that ...
2
votes
1answer
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How to move from Graffiti CMS to blogger?
I currently use Graffiti CMS for my blog. I am experiencing a lot of issues lately so I am thinking of moving to Blogger.
How can I move all my posts from Graffiti CMS to Blogger?
2
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2answers
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Aggregate old blog data into a new blogging service
Over the course of many years I have managed to create blogs on many different sites: xanga, lj, and myspace. How can one go about taking the data from these services and moving it to a new service, ...
