Archive for the ‘Geekery’ Category

New site offers Oklahoma hub for alternative news, views and action

Hey, there’s a new website in Oklahoma that Peace Arena readers might be interested in. Its goal is to advance progressive/liberal/independent perspectives in our state, filling a pretty big hole left by the traditional outlets. It is an ad-free, all-volunteer effort.
Oklahoma Citizen already has been getting a lot of buzz during a limited site reveal … read more »

A new look. Whatdaya think?

I’ve switched to a new theme, which I think is a bit cleaner and easier to navigate. I’m still tweaking it a bit, so don’t be surprised to see things get added, subtracted, moved or (temporarily) broken. If you find something not working as you think it should, a poke in my direction would be … read more »

My 2009 nod to exceptional Oklahoma Bloggers

Last year I handed out (metaphorically speaking) some Oklahoma netroots blogger awards and really intended them to become an annual thing to do on my blogiversary (Thanksgiving weekend) but not only have I been a bad blogger this year, I’ve been a pretty sporadic reader of Oklahoma-based blogs as well.
Considering my self-defined mission … read more »

The ugliest web site in Oklahoma

I don’t know if this really qualifies as THE ugliest in the entire state, but I think it’s a serious contender in the crowded Government category.
The screen shot below really doesn’t do this inside page of the Canadian County web site justice. All those state flags are waving!

The front page only has two waving … read more »

Failed experiment – now removing Facebook links feed

Several developments in this short-lived trial.
The most serious is that the feed produces hotlinked photos. If read in a feedreader, that’d be fine, but even with my minuscule readership, this is not acceptable practice for a blogger. I could use CSS to keep the images from displaying (and have done so with the links … read more »

Free or very low cost mailing list service from Bravenet

Bravenet has teamed up with Constant Contact to offer a pretty good deal on an e-mailing list service.
I signed up with Bravenet back in 2003, and for a while used some of their counters and other website tools, but drifted away to other services. However, I never bothered to unsubscribe from their newsletter, tho … read more »

Adding my Facebook Links feed to this blog

I’ve set up a Wordpress plugin to bring my frequent Facebook links into Peace Arena. To do this, I’m using FeedWordpress, a plugin that automatically pulls in content from feeds as WP blog posts. I was already using this plugin to import posts I make at some of the blogs I maintain for local organizations, … read more »

Emailing 101 for activists

This morning I got a phone call from an activist friend because her Internet service provider was not letting her send out emails to 200 addresses at a time from within her own personal email account.
Um, yeah they do that, because, as far as they are concerned you are spamming! They really don’t care if … read more »

Peace Arena is Runner Up for Best Political Blog in Okie Blog Awards

Runner Up
Best Political Blog
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Wow, this is amazing to me. First of all, not to sound like a cliche, but being nominated is so validating, especially since most of the time a I alternate between feeling that no one even reads my blog and feeling that my efforts are just too pathetic to matter, … read more »