One Day Blog Silence

Finger on the Web Vol. 5

So yeah I missed last week’s issue. What of it? Nothing interesting happened. Okay so nothing interesting happened in my life but there was lots of interesting stuff on the internet.
Virginia Tech
Both the online and offline communities were rocked by the tragedy at Virginia Tech. If you’ve been living under a rock for the past [...]

Writing Prompts: Save the World

While pondering the tragedy that occurred on April 16, 2007 I’ve decided that this week’s writing prompt theme will be 13 Plots to Destroy the World. Now when it comes to defining “The World”, it is not always as global as you think. In fact, in writing, the world is defined by the protagonist [...]

Thirteen Memes

Participating in memes is a great way to meet people as well as allow your readers to get to know better. As most memes keep a master list of all the participants, it is also a great way to find new blogs to read as well as drum up more traffic to your own blog.
Below [...]

Writing Prompts: Twists and Contradictions

To kick things off this week’s theme will be Twists and Contradictions.

Finger on the Web, Vol. 4

Welcome to the fourth edition of FOTW, your weekly digest of what’s going on on the internet.
More thoughts on sponsored themes
Earlier this week, I wrote about the growing practice of WordPress designers offering advertising space on the free themes they distribute. Matt Mullenweg stopped by for a short minute to offer his opinion on it [...]

Tempest in a Teacup or Baby Momma Drama over Sponsored Templates

There is a storm brewing in the WordPress community over the practice of selling ad space on WordPress themes. More specifically, theme designers are selling text links to advertisers in the footers of the themes that they distribute for free to the community. Now to hear some people tell it this “new” development is akin [...]

WordPress, Sidebars and Widgets, Oh my!

I wrote a guest blog for Engtech in which I detailed a way for you to use different sidebars for the different pageviews of your WordPress theme. After much anticipation it has finally been posted.
When I first heard of WordPress widgets, I was appropriately disgruntled. ‘Widgets? We don’t need no stinking Widgets,’ I grumbled. I [...]

Finger on the Web, Vol. 3

OMG, I got caught up working on a design for a side project. It wasn’t until I went to the store and wrote a check that realized… today is Wednesday! I tell ya, these weeks are moving along faster and faster.
Anyway, here what’s on the net…