The Perfect 404
Thursday, September 13th, 2007 Posted in Web | 1 Comment »Digg has a link to a story on creative 404 error pages. Amazingly enough, I managed to look at the page at the exact moment that it had 404 diggs.
How perfect is that?
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Getting Sociable
Friday, September 8th, 2006 Posted in Site Updates, Web | No Comments »I finally got around to setting up convenient links to a couple of social bookmarking sites. At first I resisted the idea, figuring regular users probably have bookmarklets or extensions that take care of it. But social networking sites have casual users, too, and posting a few small icons is a subtler form of self-promotion than putting up a giant banner that says, “Hey! Submit this #$!@ story to ____ now!”
I ended up using Sociable, a plugin for WordPress that already knows the right link formats for several dozen such sites.
Of course, since Sociable provides links for so many sites, the obvious question becomes: Which sites do I include? I don’t want to post all 25—that would just be a jumble of icons, hardly usable (never mind aesthetic!)
I settled on five to start with:
- del.icio.us is my online bookmark service of choice. I still manage a lot of bookmarks locally, but this lets me share a set between multiple browsers at home and work.
- Digg seems to be the leading service for actually sharing and discussing links these days.
- Fark wasn’t on my list at first, but then I realized that I make funny/weird posts here all the time. Some of them would fit right in.
- Reddit is new to me, but it popped up a couple of times when I went looking through sites that I read.
- Yahoo MyWeb I mainly added out of name recognition.
What social bookmarking sites (if any) do you use?
