Maria’s Guides

• Future Tense: The Machine is Us/ing Us
  A podcast of a discussion with the creator of The Machine is Us/ing Us, one of the most watched videos on YouTube.
  (tags: podcastweb2.0youtubeantropology)
• Trojan Horse warning: What you need to know
  A Mac trojan horse is out there folks. This Macworld.com article tells you all about it, including how to determine if you’re infected and how to get rid of it. Many thanks to Miraz Jordan (http://mactips.info) for the tweet and link.
  (tags: AppleMacvirus)
• Great articles that should be read
  Are you a blogger? Then you need to read the articles listed in this post. On My Lucky Number 13.
  (tags: bloggingtipsreference)
• TwitterPoster
  A graphic representation of the number of followers for Twitter users. I couldn’t find myself so I must not have enough followers.
  (tags: twittersocialnetworkingweb2.0)
• Twitterrific
  Twitterific 3.0 is now available. It ain’t free, but I think it’s worth the $14.95.
  (tags: twittersoftwareapplications)

A WordPress plugin that helps commenters promote their own blogs.

Yesterday, while following up on a pingback — I get a ton of pingback spam from sploggers — I discovered a legitimate link to an article on my blog. (Imagine that!) I decided to thank the author of the post linked to mine with a comment. So I filled in the comment form and clicked the submit button. And here’s what I saw in her blog:

Note the last line. It includes the name of and a link to the most recent post on my blog (when the comment was posted). How cool is that?

I searched Google and found CommentLuv. This incredibly easy to install WordPress plugin gets dropped in your Plugins folder and activated from within the Plugins administration panel. That’s it. From that point forward, anyone who posts a comment and includes a link to their blog will have their most recent blog entry, pulled off their RSS feed, included as a link with the comment.

So I included it on my blog. Try it out now by posting a Comment using the link or form below.

A quick link to a good source for Leopard.

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