http://richpalmer.com/blogsviewsandblues Blog reviews, technology, thoughts, and blues music hosted by Rich Palmer Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:06:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sponsor: Access Your PC from Anywhere with GoToMyPC. Try it FREE for 30 days! www.gotomypc.com/podcast Blogs Rich shares info on the Polldaddy service and plugins for your Wordpress blogs: Polldaddy Matt Mullenweg announces acquisition of Polldaddy by Automattic A great tutorial by Leland at Themelab on how to install the plugin Rich also shares some experiences ... http://richpalmer.com/blogsviewsandblues/2008/11/15/polldaddy-plugin-for-wordpress-bvb29/ Sponsor: Access Your PC from Anywhere with GoToMyPC. Try it FREE for 30 days! www.gotomypc.com/podcast Blogs Rich shares a few simple SMS blogging resources that he has discovered: LetMeParty.com SMSGupShup Views Rich feels that these services are not as robust as services that have already become popular, such as Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Utterli and others. However, simple ... http://richpalmer.com/blogsviewsandblues/2008/10/26/sms-blogging-bvb28/ Sponsor: Access Your PC from Anywhere with GoToMyPC. Try it FREE for 30 days! www.gotomypc.com/podcast Blogs Rich shares some great plugins for your Wordpress blogs: Facebook Sharer by Sævar Öfjörð Tweet This by Richard X. Thripp YouTuber by Roy Tanck Views Rich shares his views and comments about people and companies that send email without the option ... http://richpalmer.com/blogsviewsandblues/2008/10/18/facebook-sharer-tweet-this-and-youtuber-bvb27/ Sponsor: “Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast Blogs Rich tried the Twitter Grader available from Hubspot. He scored 96.7. Views Hubspot also offers a web site grader.  Rich tried the service and reviewed the results. He explained some of the areas of his site that might need work ... http://richpalmer.com/blogsviewsandblues/2008/09/20/twitter-grader-web-site-grader-bvb26/ Sponsor: “Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast Blogs While Rich was traveling he wanted to update his blog.  He thought that the opportunity to blog using audio from his mobile phone would be useful.  He shares three services: LiveJournal.com PhoneBlogz.com Utterz.com Views Not too much on the views category, other ... http://richpalmer.com/blogsviewsandblues/2008/08/31/audio-blogging-from-your-phone-bvb25/ Sponsor: “Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast Blogs Some people like to blog through video.  Many of these create content and upload it.  Others like to do things "on the fly."  Here are a few of the services that Rich reviewed or talked about in this episode: Ustream.tv Justin.tv Blogtv.com Qik.com mdialog.com   Views Last week ... http://richpalmer.com/blogsviewsandblues/2008/08/18/live-video-streaming-review-mobile-apps-bvb24/ Sponsor: “Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast Blogs Rich asks you to visit MommySpice.com to read the writings of Paula C. Brown. Be sure to comment on her posts! Your input and your visits will help her publishers know that she's a writer ... http://richpalmer.com/blogsviewsandblues/2008/07/29/whitehousemom-kadoink-bvb23/ Sponsor: “Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast Blogs Rich found a site called The Hype Machine. The Hype Machine tracks a variety of MP3 blogs. If a post contains MP3 links, it adds those links to its database and displays them on the front ... http://richpalmer.com/blogsviewsandblues/2008/07/13/hype-machine-textmarks-bvb22/ Sponsor: “Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast Blogs Rich has been using a great WordPress plug-in recommended by Paul the Music Lover from Indie Music Sampler. This plug-in lets you build a variety of forms into your WordPress blog.  You can build comment management forms, file ... http://richpalmer.com/blogsviewsandblues/2008/05/31/cforms-ii-and-friendfeed-bvb-21/ Sponsor: “Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast Blogs The Disqus service has chosen Seesmic as their option for letting you offer video comments on your blogs.  Imagine how well the message might be interpreted if you could actually see the body language, hear the voice ... http://richpalmer.com/blogsviewsandblues/2008/05/18/seesmic-video-comments-and-evernote-bvb20/