Entries from November 2006

My column has been republished by a sex site

November 30th, 2006 · 7 Comments

I spotted this before but I just showed it to colleagues in the office and forgot about it. I got another email recently telling me that my column on porn in Globe’s mobile blogs had been reprinted by the Asian Sex Gazette.
Here’s the link (it’s not safe for work and may contain images some might [...]

Tags: Personal

Using activeCollab to manage blog posts, article ideas

November 29th, 2006 · 6 Comments

I’m spending a lot of time in my activeCollab installation these past weeks. ActiveCollab is an open source project management and collaboration script that had been described as a clone of the popular Basecamp service (but I think it’s much more than that).
CREATING FORMS. ActiveCollab allows you to create forms that automatically add data [...]

Tags: Blogs · Free services · Highlights · Open source · free software

Track your blog visitors’ sessions with Clicky

November 28th, 2006 · 5 Comments

If you’re still waiting for that MeasureMap invitation, don’t fret. A new service has opened that will more than make up for the time (what is it now? several months?) you spent waiting for the still unsent service invitations.
Clicky is a new service created “to complement” other website metrics tools. What Clicky does is help [...]

Tags: Blogs · Free services

Running a web server, WordPress on my phone

November 19th, 2006 · 7 Comments

I was finally able to run an Apache, PHP, MySQL server on my Sony Ericsson K750i. I did it on my second attempt, the first was disastrous, and that’s putting it mildly, as I crashed my phone and I had to reformat its memory card, wiping out several photos I haven’t been able to save [...]

Tags: Highlights · Mobile · free software

Paying bloggers to write about products, services

November 11th, 2006 · 8 Comments

(Note: This post is not part of the ReviewMe program). I got an e-mail early this morning from the people behind Text Link Ads (referral link). The e-mail said this site was pre-approved for their newly launched ReviewMe advertising program.
I was intrigued because I never signed up for the program. I was set to just [...]

Tags: Blogs · Journalism

Trying out Drupal as content management system

November 11th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I installed the Drupal 5.0 beta 1 release yesterday and the installation was so easy it could rival WordPress’ famous five-minute installs.
I’ve long wanted to try the open source content management system and for several months now, “try Drupal” has featured prominently in my someday/maybe lists (plural because I kept transferring and playing with new [...]

Tags: Open source · WebTech