Time Poor Blogger

Improving Your Copy

Copy - Material, such as a manuscript, that is to be set in type. The next feature I want for article mode is for it to be able to help you to write good copy. Sounds impossible? Well, copyblogger has an article with some rules you can follow. To get ...

Count Active Region Words - Another Article Mode Enhancement

As I mentioned previously I wanted to add a feature to article mode that would count the number of words in an active region. I can't think of an immediate practical purpose, but I am frequently curious how long a paragraph is. If the feature has been implemented ...

Emacs Faces - Using Overlays

I mentioned last time that (add-text-properties ...) doesn't usually work in a buffer with font-lock activated. How then can we highlight keywords in the general case? I didn't know the answer myself before I started implementing article mode, so I looked at a minor mode that does correctly highlight words ...

An Emacs Minor Mode

(aka the Article Mode conversion) Emacs has a convenience macro for defining minor modes called (appropriately enough) (define-minor-mode ...). It takes a few handy keywords, e.g. :lighter to define that identifier in the mode line and :keymap to define the keymap and the body is executed every time article mode ...

Plans to Improve Article Mode

Okay, I can't leave well enough alone. I've spent around two hours writing my article mode. This has (depending on your point of view), either wasted two hours, or saved $19.95 (for an alternative tool). Now I'm about to pour countless hours more of my already scarce ...

Saving Time - A Change Of Focus For The Blog

I've decided on a change of focus for the blog. Affiliate marketing just isn't something I feel comfortable writing about at the moment. What I didn't realise until I thought about it is that saving time (particularly my own) is what I am really interested in. The obvious way ...

What is the Difference Between wordpress.com and wordpress.org?

The answer to this question is pretty clear - wordpress.com is a mostly free host for wordpress blogs and wordpress.org hosts the software itself which enables you to set up your own self-hosted blog. So my question is really What is the difference between hosting your blog at wordpress.com ...

Web 2.0 Websites and the Pagerank Myth

How often do you see something along the lines of "Squidoo has a pagerank 8. Create a lens to get high quality backlinks." Actually, it doesn't have to be Squidoo, it could be Hubpages or USFreeAds. I've heard it said about a lot of websites. There are a ...

Keyword Optimization - Extending Emacs for SEO

I read an interesting post about a tool for writing keyword optimized articles on my new favourite blog. Now, potpiegirl has a lot of great information, and every so often she talks about a handy tool and throws a few affiliate links in there. Nice marketing strategy! ...

First Statistics From Squidoo and EzineArticles

I finally have some statistics. I've created four Squidoo lenses, one group and one ezine article that has been published. Have I managed to get any traffic? Two of my lenses appear in the google index. My article, which was published two days ago, refers to one of ...