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Why does Michael Arrington hate freedom and democracy?

Michael Arrington is having a heated "discussion" in the comments of his blog post about how furious he is that Nanci Pelosi Rick Rolled him in this video.

I thought the video was okay, I'm not mad that it was made but cats? At least Rick Roll us with something good like an inauguration day Rick Roll. Anyway, Michael is freak out because not many people share his opinion about the video, or President Obama (and probably all Democrats).

Pete says "This is great, it makes me more secure knowing that at least one person in Congress has a sense of humor. And talk about viral - they got you to post about it."

Michael says "this is not great. this is f’d up. and the Speaker of the House isn’t supposed to be thinking about ways to create viral videos. She’s supposed to be running our country."

Quick note: Barack Obama will actually be running the country, not Nancy Pelosi.

Michael says "every single one of you should have your right to vote revoked."

Michael says "we [TechCrunch] don’t lead the free world, control trillions in spending and manage the largest military establishment in the history of mankind. we’re a blog."

It's just a video Michael!

WordPress and plugins for a new blog

I've started a couple new blogs in the past few months, but I've always used my custom-build content management system on all my blogs. In the past week I've seen so many neat plugins for WordPress, I figured it was finally time to give it a shot.

I haven't spent very much time looking at themes, but right now I'm using VectorLover from Theme Lab. I'm going to do some editing or maybe look for a new theme soon. Let's move on to plugins.

I'm sure I'll find more great plugins, and I'll update this list each time I do. These are the ones that got most of the features I had on my own CMS, in WordPress.

Akismet. This comes with WordPress and you should activate it right away, nobody likes spam comments.

All in One SEO Pack by Michael Torbert. This lets you customize the way your titles are displayed, and optimized your whole website for SEO.

Contact Form 7 by Takayuki Miyoshi. A simple Ajax-based web contact form.

FireStats by Omry Yadan. I use Google Analytics too, but I love stats so I installed this one too.

Google XML Sitemaps by Arne Brachhold. Generates a valid sitemap that automatically updates everytime you add a new post.

RSS Footer by Joost de Valk. This lets you put copyright information and links back to your website, in your RSS feed. This is great to thwart content scrapers, or at least get a backlink in the worst case.

Tweet Stats by Improving The Web. Tracks all tweets with a link to your website and adds them as comments. You can also add widgets to your sidebar that shows your top tweeted content.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin by Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine. Scans your articles for related content and adds a related posts section to the bottom of your articles. You can also add related posts to your RSS feed.

These are the plugins that got WordPress blog up and running, while keeping look and feel of the pre-WordPress design. I must say I like WordPress a lot, the plugins and themes are very easy to install and configure, and you really have control over everything. I might convert some of my other sites to WordPress, but only time will tell.

Christmas present from WidgetBucks

I'm starting to take some time off work this week for Christmas. So while I was getting ready for my Christmas trip today I found a nice surprise in my mailbox from the WidgetBucks team. A Starbucks gift card and a nice Christmas card!







I used my gift card an hour after I got it, and I got a nice peppermint coffee for free to start my day off, it was fantastic. My gift card was worth $5, and while that might not seem like a lot it's perfect to get a free cup of coffee, and their have tons of publishers to take care of.

I'm not sure if they gave gift cards to all their publishers, but I really appreciate the card and the nice thoughts from their team. Last Christmas they sent me a a nice box of chocolates and a WidgetBucks t-shirt. These guys really know how to make their publishers feel wanted, and their customer support backs that statement up.

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