Posts Tagged ‘meta’

WordPress 3.0 upgrade, tweaks and prepping for blog future

I’ve upgraded to WordPress 3.0 (“Thelonious”) and plan to use its multisite feature. But first I want to do some housecleaning here and at the blogs I plan to merge from hither and yon into this single install (hallelujah!).
I’ve also got some changes planned for Peace Arena’s front page and menus. I’m going to focus less on… Read the rest

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 appreciated.

All your emails are belong to Inhofe

A big part of the reason I haven’t been blogging much is that I just feel like I don’t have the ability or opportunity these days to do enough reading and research to post anything of value to the discussion. For example: The conservative conspiracy theory du jour, led by Oklahoma Republican Senator Jim Inhofe, regarding emails stolen from the… Read the rest

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 already imported), but… Read the rest

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, but didn’t think of… Read the rest

Blogroll Amnesty Day 2009

Wow, it’s that time again already, that time when all the little people of the Netroots rise up against their oppressors, the big people of the Netroots who won’t link to them (the bastards!).
So we link to each other — freely, wildly, irresponsibly, like the DFHs we really are. The motto is “look up, link down” that is,… Read the rest

Peace Arena nominated for Best Political Blog

Wow, very cool. It really is an honor, just to be considered… of course I’d like to win it too!
Voting open to Okie bloggers. Please take time to visit and read all the nominees. It’s great that we have so many compelling voices, that the Internet allows us to share them with each other so readily, and that… Read the rest

Peace Arena to name ‘Progressive Person of the Year’

Taking a cue from Time magazine, which today made news with the surprising choice of Barack Obama as its ‘Person of the Year,’ this site will be announcing a “Progressive Person of the Year.”
Our selection will be just as much of a huge shocker as Time’s. In other words, to make any other choice would land one in… Read the rest

A friendly note

I want to repeat here something I posted to the Mambo version of ReCollection during its brief life: registration to this site will get you access to some posts that are not available to the non-registered. Not all that big a deal, just some more personal stuff and the occasional © article that I want to keep where I can… Read the rest