I’ve added a ‘like’ feature to my blog, similar to that of Tumblr and Facebook. I know sometimes while reading posts on other blogs, I want to comment that I liked the post, but don’t always unless I have something to maybe add to the discussion. The ‘like’ feature I think fills the gap, incase I have any readers that ever feel the same. I’m hoping the plugin author adds some extras to it to capture who likes the posts at some point. If not, I may see what I can do with it.
Yesterday I signed up for an account at SocialVibe, which is social network that allows you to raise money for causes that you want to support by choosing a sponsor and displaying a badge of that sponsor that they give you. I’m not a huge ad guy, so i like to avoid them as much as possible to avoid disrupting the time spent here for my visitors. But at the same time, this type of advertising has sort of drawn me to it. I think it’s the idea of taking something that you have, and using it to help enrich or improve someone else’s life or quality of life.
Personally I think the added social network aspect of it may be a bit much, as I’m already a member of the large well known ones, and really don’t need yet another one. But if that’s what it takes to keep them running and around, I’m for it.
CSS has always been a weak point of mine. I’m more of a visual learner, so looking at just the code doesn’t really get me very far. Pretty often I either tweak or add something to my blog, which in turn requires some CSS to make look right. For example, just a few days ago, I added a background image of a shadow underneath any image that I insert into a post as a medium size image. This would have taken me quite a bit longer, if it weren’t for the Firefox add-on Firebug.
Wordle is a site that makes word clouds from the text on your site and allows you to customize how it all appears. It’s a pretty neat idea IMO and some of the images that it creates are interesting; especially since everyone’s will always be different. I learned about Wordle from Muse.
Anyways, here’s mine!
For any poor soul that happens to run across this blog, Hi! 
I plan on sharing my thoughts, reasoning, travels, opinions, etc. on this newly created piece of online real estate.
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