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Testing MarsEdit & The Rapture

I am trying to better integrate my workflow and one of the challenges is that I now have several blogs to which I post and sometimes I want the same post on all the blogs (some people only go to one blog. I know! Can you imagine?). MarsEdit is a blog editor that I used to use and I am giving it a go again.

It doesn’t allow you to “multicast,” that is, post to multiple blogs at once (which BlogPress lets me do from my iPad or iPhone), but it does allow me to quickly change a drop down menu after I save to one blog to change to another. So it should be just a couple of steps.

In the meantime, here is another picture I took recently to make your visit worthwhile. On Saturday, otherwise know as “The Rapture,” I was driving home from a wedding and the sky looked as if it was indeed portending momentous events.

Rapture Time?

 

I’m as popular as Jim West, I just know I am!

You think I need more focus? You mean you don't like rambling posts, comics, and iOS tips?

Well, my site may not be as popular as our reigning #1 Biblioblogger, but I think I have figured out why I fare so poorly in the Alexa rankings. It isn’t that I am blogging far less frequently or that people aren’t interested in what I have to say (well, that could be it, but I resolutely refused to accept it; I reject your reality and substitute my own). Rather it is that Alexa ranks my home domain http://targuman.org rather than the blog URL. See, if they would measure my blog’s actual hits rather than the home page (which is very nice looking, by the way, you really should stop by) then I am sure my ranking would be right up there. Easily up to #48. I am sure of it. Absolutely.

 

Flipbook-style plug-in for WordPress!

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The Chronicle of Higher Education blog ProfHacker put me on to a great WP plugin that makes your site look and work like Flipboard, a great magazine like news-reading experience for the iPad. I have it running now, what do you think?

OnSwipe describes itself as “a platform that makes it insanely easy for publishers of all sizes to make their content and advertising a beautiful experience on touch-enabled devices via Web browser.” Any blog hosted at WordPress.com is already enabled with the OnSwipe plug-in, and if you host your own WordPress site, you can easily install the plug-in yourself.

via Make Your WordPress Site Tablet-Friendly – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education.

UPDATE: Not surprisingly, I am late to this party. It looks as if every WP blog I read today is using this and has been for a while. Still, I like it.

 

Vote for the Top Ten Biblioblogs

Don’t forget to vote for your favorite Biblioblog! *wink* *wink* /nudge/ /nudge/

 

Top 10/50 Biblioblogs

Bob Cargill, #1 of the January Top Ten

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I admit that I have not kept up with all the changes with the latest season of “So you think you can blog?” I am pleased and honored however to have been voted into the January 2011 Top 10 Biblioblogs list (and to remain, barely, in the Top 50 as determined by Alexa).

I would love to make it to the top of the Top 10 just to get such a nice portrait!