Sweet Syndication - ConnectBlogs is Reborn

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

The aforementioned new version of ConnectBlogs.com rolled into production last night. It will be a process of ongoing improvement, but I’m really happy with what we have now. I think a lot of people will find it to be a valuable resource, and I personally hope it makes the Utah business and tech communities a [...]

ConnectBlogs (Version 2)

Friday, February 9th, 2007

I apologize that I haven’t posted in a while; I’ve been pretty busy with a number of things: my day job as website manager at Overstock, a lot of website contracting and consulting work in the evenings, my usual slew of volunteer projects, and most recently (and notably) setting up the new version of ConnectBlogs [...]

Just When I Thought Google Hated Me

Monday, October 9th, 2006

I don’t know about you, but my PR was showing as a 1 forever. Not that it really matters since I’m not really selling anything here, but it was kind of annoying. Why wouldn’t Google satisfy my ego like it does for everyone else? (Actually, it was more like, “I don’t suck that bad.”) The [...]

New and Marginally Improved

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

I’ve finally switched my blog theme so that it’s no longer one of the defaults. This new theme isn’t mine from scratch, but I did do some significant CSS tweaking to make it my own. There’s still work to do, as always, but I think it’s presentable. At least check out my sweet pic. It’s [...]

Category-Specific Feeds in WordPress

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Most people don’t know this, but WordPress automatically builds RSS feeds for specific categories. So if you wanted to syndicate only “tech” stories from the Jordy Blog, you could use this feed:
http://jordy.gundy.org/wp-rss2.php?cat=3
To view which id you could use for a category-specific feed, just click on a category and see what is listed in the [...]