July 01, 2004

Earn Money On Your Blog

Elise writes a tutorial on making money with your weblog. Unfortunately she doesn't mention the #1 rule- "don't be evil"

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Hashim at 05:17 PM in Inspiration
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June 17, 2004

Google's Adsense With Websearch

Google now allows web publishers to earn money from the searches done from their site. I figure that little "search this site using Google" phrase to be plastered all over the blogosphere now, just like adsense ads are. And that's not a bad thing.

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Hashim at 11:32 PM in Third Party Apps
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Display Feeds Using Javascript

A cool tool for turning webfeeds into javascript for diplaying on a site is Feed2JS. As soon as I can get the styling to the look of my site I'll start using it.

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Hashim at 09:24 PM in Third Party Apps
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June 10, 2004

Comment Feed added

For those of you who use webfeed readers like Bloglines or Kinja can now read the comments on this blog via the comments feed.

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Hashim at 08:52 PM in Hacks
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May 22, 2004

Bloglines Wishlist

I use Bloglines as my webfeed reader. I love it for the same reasons Jeremy does. Also, like him I have some suggestions for improvements to their service.

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Hashim at 08:42 PM in Third Party Apps
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Email This

It's important that the visitors have an easy way to share what they read here with their friends. When the site was being designed I tried to solve that problem by including an "Email This" link at the end of every post. Here's how it works, for all you Typepad or MT bloggers out there.

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Hashim at 08:05 PM in Hacks
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May 06, 2004

Site Search

The "search archives" tool provided by Google site search is fixed. Previously it was giving results from the whole internet instead of just Hip Hop Blogs.

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Hashim at 09:20 PM in Third Party Apps
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Other Group Hip-Hop Blogs

Let me not gas ourselves up. Our site is not the first or only hip-hop group blog out there. There's Verbalisms and the Live Journal hip-hop community site. I like both for different reasons.

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Hashim at 12:41 AM in Inspiration
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May 04, 2004

Handling New Writer Requests

More people than I thought are offering their writing skills and hip-hop knowledge to the site. Since I don't have the time/desire to read through writing samples I've devised a *genius plan* for accepting as many people as possible while keeping this a quality, focused blog.

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Hashim at 08:11 PM in Content Editing
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Pop Up Links

Added user ability to make links on the page open a new window.

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Hashim at 07:44 PM in Hacks
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