Archive for October, 2007

Web 2.0, Disaster, and Archives

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Many of Web 2.0’s detractors argue about it’s real value, but given the wildfires in Southern California, I was happy to see it really put to good use. KPBS, a San Diego radio station, has been using Flickr and, even more shocking (at least for some), Twitter as ways to disseminate information and news quickly. [...]

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ArchivesBlogs Upgrades & Related Weirdness

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

I’ve updated ArchivesBlogs to the latest version of WordPress, as well as the latest versions of the plugins that do the heavy lifting (FeedWordPress and Auto Delete Posts). In so doing, I found that the database structure of WordPress 2.3 is radically different, causing some of my elegant work to break (namely, the use of [...]

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