Category Archives: Midas Oracle Administration
PubSubHubbub + PuSHPress
I have just installed the PuSHPress plugin, and this post is a test to see whether it works. If yes, this post should be indexed quickly by Google Reader (and other feed readers).
Filed in “Real-Time Web“.
UPDATE: I am so impressed, I could lay an egg. A brand-new post appears in Google Reader within seconds. I [...]
Should a blog run ads?
Robin Hanson’s web stats (the drop came following his ditching of his co-authors):
He has asked whether his readers would allow him to have ads. I left a comment, there.
Blog Herald:
3 Odd Reasons Why I Don’t Read Your Blog
- ADS. I find that the types of ads a blog runs is quite telling. The blogger that [...]
The P2 experiment ended up in a total fiasco.
P2 sucked too much of the server resources.
P2 is out.
And I have plenty of technicalities to address.
How to use P2 on Midas Oracle
I have modified things a bit so you, guys, don’t post (as Niall has just done) using the quick blog editor on the frontpage. I want you to use the blog editor, inside WordPress.
(The quick blog editor on the frontpage outputs posts without any post title. I don’t like that.)
- Use the frontpage to comment [...]
Midas Oracle is thankful for P2 — a new WordPress theme (a.k.a., blog layout) that smoothes the reading and writing of comments.
- On the frontpage and on the tag/category pages, the comments will appear listed below the post. No need to download the post to read the (favorable or unfavorable) comments.
- If you are a registered user and have just logged in, you can comment directly on the frontpage or on the tag/category pages. No need [...]
Dark Pools, Black Holes and MidasOracle.
Q. What do Dark Pools, Black Holes and MidasOracle all have in common?
A. Not many people know what is going on within them.
Gimme your Twitter URL. — Add me in your Google Wave contacts.
I have been using Twitter a lot, these last months. – http://twitter.com/midasoracle
If you have been in contact with me since the inception of Midas Oracle, and if you are now using Twitter too, gimme your Twitter URL so I can see whether I should “follow” you.
I now exchange more “direct messages” within Twitter than conventional [...]
Midas Oracle is worth $1 million.
- PaidContent has a monthly audience of 250,000.
- Guardian Media bought PaidContent for $30 million $6.5 million.
- Midas Oracle has had 41,000 visitors the last 30 days.
- Midas Oracle’s audience is one sixth of PaidContent’s audience.
- So, Midas Oracle is worth one sixth of $6.5 million —that’s $1.1 million.
Wanna discussing finance on my other Midas Oracle blog, powered by P2?
http://midasoracle.wordpress.com/ — powered by P2.
If some of you wanna be registered there, so as to have a commenting playground with no limits, let me know.
For this website (Midas Oracle .ORG), I came back to WP FrameWork. I still have to work out the sidebar.
UPDATE: Jason tells me it’s a mistake to dilute the comments. They [...]