General Computer Stuff

Seems there are now special search engines for Twitter. I look at twitter just to see what’s up. Lots of news breaks there. On fast breaking subjects real time results are wonderful. Search engines are figuring this out. Google and Microsoft are looking at buying Twitter. They have recognized Twitter’s value in getting new information on fast breaking subjects.

Those looking for new information on Second Life can scan Twitter, Plurk and whatever with some of the newer real time search engines. Most seem to focus on Twitter. Others provide a broader range of sources.

Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, has their own new effort, Bing Tweets. Seems they have a couple of tools for watching tweets and a search engine that gives more weight to Tweets but still includes regular search stuff. The real-time scroll of Tweets on a subject is kinda neat but hard to read on fast scrolling popular subjects.

Twitter Search Review

Twitter search sites: The three best, and all the rest – Dated June and a bit out of date, but still a good list of sources. Their top 3 are:

Twazzup – Is simple Twitter search. Results update in real time.

Collecta – This is a more generalized real time search covering more than just twitter. One has to use double quotes for terms like “Second Life” to keep it on target.

Scoopler – This one is also a broad search using many sources but has a column of  Tweets on the right.

Flickr requires one to link to the Flickr site if images are used in any site other than Flickr. Our free accounts are paid for by traffic to the flicker site. So, this is understandable if annoying. This is a way to make placing these images in WordPress pages easier.

From Flickr they have an option to let one blog about a photo. They do up the page code needed to make it work and push the entry to your WordPress blog. My problem is I need an image to support my post, not be about the image. It just does not work for me.

What I do is write my post in Word and upload it as a DRAFT using the lower half of the Publish button. On the blog I move to the dashboard and select the post to edit. Most of us start out in ‘VISUAL’ edit mode. I flip the editing to HTML mode. The modes are two tabs at the top of the edit window. See the upper right of the first image. I read down edit window to find the place where I want to insert the image. I click and place the cursor there.

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