Tips for New Bloggers Series: Tip 26

Welcome back! Today’s tip is Really Simple (Syndication). Publish full RSS feeds.

RSS. Every blog has it (or, should). But should you publish partial feeds, or full feeds?

My suggestion? Full. Absolutely.

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Guest Blog for MindBlog

I’ve had a few things pop up in my professional life, here within the past few days, and blogging time is quite rare. If anyone is interested in guest blogging (on any topic) for MindBlog, please let me know by e-mailing fyre@fyreplace.com. You are welcome to post on any topic that interests you, except politics. If you wish to blog on politics. please visit my political blog at http://politics.fyreplace.com

Thanks for understanding, folks. I hope to be back to full speed, soon, but for the next few days I may not manage much.

Test entry

This is a test entry, assisting LiveJournal.com with the exploration of an issue.

Please feel free to ignore this post, if you wish. My apologies.

Site theme: MindBlog Layout 1.0

You’re probably scratching your head, wondering if you’re on the right blog. You are! Welcome to the new layout for MindBlog, entitled “MindBlog 1.0″.

The history behind this layout: I sat down one night, loaded my blog, and realized I was tired of looking at something so generic, with no feeling. So, I grabbed a notepad, a piece or two of drawing paper, and headed to my local IHOP to figure out a new layout. This is what I came up with.

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Commission Junction Offline?

The website for Commission Junction, http://www.cj.com, appears to be offline at this time. All attempts to connect to it result in a "Cannot Connect to Server" error. Apparently, all of CJ’s other domains (used for affiliate links and click-through tracking) are still active and working, as all of my affiliate banners are loading on all sites. Users are simply unable to contact CJ.com to login to their account console, or for any other reason. It is unknown how long this outage has been going on, or how long it will continue.

UPDATE:  It’s back online, 8:29pm[CST -0600]

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Interesting: How to be a Customer

Jennifer, over at Geeks Make Me Hot (…I like her already…) is writing a series entitled “How to be a Customer.”

As you well know, my dear readers, I am a big fan of series (serieses? seriees? bah!). I think Jennifer’s series is one that should be read by each and every person on the face of the planet. Perhaps then, when I go back to working customer service (err, if I go back), I’ll not have to ask obvious questions six times. Pop over to Geeks Make Me Hot, and check out the How to be a Customer series.

Blogging, Science: Pigeon Blogging

From the “what will they think of next” category comes Pigeon Blogging.

Reuters reports that in August, a flock of pigeons - fitted with mobile phone backpacks - will be released over San Jose, California.

The birds will be used to monitor air quality/pollution, according to New Scientist Magazine (from the Reuter’s article). Each bird will carry a GPS tracking device, air pollution sensors, and a basic mobile phone (what do you want to bet, it’ll be a Nokia). The pollution sensor, in combination with the mobile phone, will send text messages back - in real time - to a special “pigeon blog” that will be publically accessible on the Internet.

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Texas Progressive Alliance Launches

As announced on the Houston Democrats blog, the Texas Progressive Alliance (TEXAdS) has launched.

The Texas Progressive Alliance features seventeen of the best blogs in the Lone Star State, and its mission is to advance the cause of progressive issues and candidates. It also features an advertising network for those who wish to deliver their message to over a quarter of a million Texas progressive, weekly — the readers of the following blogs:

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Glen Maxey for Texas Democratic Party Chair

As many of you may have noticed, I have added a blogads strip on the left side. I am proud to say that the majority of my ads come from the Texas Progressive Alliance (TEXAdS), and I have approved every ad shown.

The latest ad to show is the ad to support Glen Maxey for Texas Democratic Party Chair.

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Call for Justice Department Data to be Released

Boing-boing has put out a call for MSN, Yahoo, and AOL to publically release the data they submitted to the Justice Department.

You may remember that recently, the United States Justice Department subpoenad Google, MSN, Yahoo, and AOL to release user search data. All but Google complied in some form or fashion. Boing-Boing has requested that MSN, Yahoo and AOL publically release the data submitted to the Justice Department. EFF (Electronic Fronteir Foundation) co-founder John Gilmore has stated:

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