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Faster Image Insert. Faster Image Insert aims to do one thing right: Moves built-in Media Manager down in a meta-box, right next to main editing panel, so you have full control of the manager: opens it, makes it collapse or hidden from the interface completely. Best of all, is now you can insert image(s) much faster, and precisely where you want them to be. No thickbox, using metabox with zero interface blocking, quite similar to the uploader in WordPress 1.5No hacking, default upload interface is not affected, only enhanced.Insert multiple images in gallery & library mode, without using shortcode; can also insert images in reversed order, and even control spacing between images.Mass info editing, change title/captions in one-shot.Smart switches: set default uploader, disable captions.

This plugin is designed for: Post and Read via Twitter API. The other day I talked about micro-blogging and mega-blogging and shared my view that new forms of social media, including micro-blogging, are complementary to blogging. We’ve seen ongoing growth at WordPress.com as people started using Twitter, and we expect that to continue. Of course one of the coolest things about Twitter right now is the client applications, particularly the mobile/iPhone ones.

I use Tweetie 2 on my iPhone every day. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could get all your blog subscriptions and post to your WordPress.com blog from apps like Tweetie? Well here’s an early Christmas present… We’ve enabled posting to and reading of WordPress.com blogs via the Twitter API. For this walkthrough we’ll use Tweetie 2. For API Root, enter: and then click the Add Account button. Here’s what it looks like when I read WordPress.com blogs I’ve subscribed to in Tweetie. If you’ve enabled geotagging for your posts, the geolocation data gets exposed as well. Marketing and Social Media Tips - sageComm - The World Is Listen. Blog Archive » Book Review: Socialnomics. Social Media, Structure, and the Creative Cycle | brianfrank.ca. Reflecting on last weekend’s talk on creativity I worried that probably emphasized the “open” aspect of the creative cycle at the expense of the “closed” aspect. My gist seemed to be, “Don’t worry about anything… try everything, and fantastic creations will magically appear.”

Given the circumstances, I’m happy I erred that way rather than the other. We need free & open experiments now more than ever — and London, especially, is not going to run out of closed-ended thinking any time soon. Being comfortable with uncertainty is something we need to get better at. But I have to backtrack a little. Ultimately we need a balance Just as we can think of creative inspiration as a collision between two objects — or, as in the quote I used from Bruce Mau, “the third object” — the process of creativity is a conflagration of two impulses resulting in something new and independent.

These go by different names but the ways they break down are roughly similar: The value of constraints & discipline. Chrisbrogan.com — Learn How Human Business Works - Beyond Social. 8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement By Jean-Baptiste Jung Over the past 10 years, the MySQL database has become incredibly popular on the Web. Every WordPress blog is driven by a MySQL database, which contains the blog’s posts, settings, comments and much more. While plug-ins and even coding hacks can solve some problems and achieve some tasks, sometimes you don’t have any other choice than to execute SQL commands in phpMyAdmin or directly to the database via SSH.

Let’s take a look at 8 useful SQL hacks for WordPress. 1. The problem. The solution. Log in to phpMyAdmin and select your WordPress database.Once done, click the “Export” button located in the horizontal menu.Choose a compression method (personally, I use gzip), and click the “Execute” button.Your browser will ask you if you want to download the backup. Explanation. 2. The problem. The solution. Log in to phpMyAdmin and select your WordPress database.Click the “SQL” button. Code explanation. Source: How to: Batch delete post revisions 3. The problem.