Contributing to Community

I was for a while thinkin how I can contribute to the community. Open Source project could be one. I shall consider this blog as a service to community when it gets more traffic then it does now. So I sitting here at WordCamp (see previous post) and the fine folks at WordPress do solicit help at their documentation area. I think I might consider using ViViD to diagram some of their lessons.

WordCamp Day 1

I am sitting at the WordCamp, a two days get together. This is sponsored by WordPress.com and certain presentations are WordPress oriented. Some, not all. For 25 bucks you get so much that it is Ok with me that they do some self-promotion.

First day an interesting sessions were two. First was a panel of John Dvorak and Om Mailk, and I lerned some useful stuf from it. One is that Bloggers should not use

Matt Cutts, SEO engineer from Google, did presentation on SEO blog optimization. Nicely done. To the point, yet entertaining. One thing to remember is to use ALT tags in images. Another to use keywords as part of URL.

There was one very technical presentation about usability, not too interesting for me. There was one interesting fact menitoned. Google did A/B testing and expand number of search results from default 10 to 25. In 3 hours they lost 3 million of search advertising worth. People don’t like waiting. People don’t like scrolling.

ViVID for Blogger #2

This posting is another example in simple vivid based diagramming.
Vivid begins.
ViViD.
“ViViD Clip Web”.
“ViViD Clip”.
“ViViD Web Application”.
“ViViD Vizualization Web Service”.
//—————————– this is a comment ——–
“ViViD Clip” belongs to ViViD.
“ViViD Clip” belongs to ViViD.
“ViViD Clip Web” belongs to ViViD.
“ViViD Clip Web” belongs to ViViD.
“ViViD Vizualization Web Service” belongs to “ViViD Clip Web”.
“ViViD Vizualization Web Service” belongs to “ViViD Clip Web”.
“ViViD Web Application” belongs to “ViViD Clip Web”.
“ViViD Web Application” belongs to “ViViD Clip Web”.

vivid ends.

ViViD for Blogger

As you know, as a hobby I write a piece of software called ViViD.
ViViD stands for “verbal to visual”. ViViD, to put in simply, converts written text into a visualization. Simplest visualization is a diagram.

Currently ViViD ability is limited. To use it you have to the subset of English language ViViD supports. But once you did, you can use 10 words to crate a picture that worth 1000 words. What else gives you 10o times return on investment?

Now I am integrating ViViD with Blogger. Blogger editor does not allow 3rd party add-ons.
However the published Blog can have HTML page element. So if you paste an HTML that I wrote, visitors to your site will be able to see visualization of your top item by clicking one button.

Here is a simple example. You see ViViD button on the right hand column? Click it. What you’ll see is the visualization of the text below
Vivid begins.
User creates Text. User sends Text to ViViD. ViViD creates Picture. ViViD sends the Picture to User.
Vivid ends.

Blogging from Email

This is my first blog post done via email to Blogger.com

I like this feature. If only it allowed me to add a picture. It does not. Attachments to emails are seemingly ignored.

So I had to add to the blog later, via Blogger web site. The picture I attached to the email did not make it to the blog. Pity. But it was not unexpected. So I had to upload the picture again. These are my two daughters.

Blogging from Email

This is my first blog post done via email to Blogger.com

I like this feature. If only it allowed me to add a picture.

This is my later addition to the blog item, already via Blogger web site.

The picture I attached to the email did not make it to the blog. Pity. But it was not unexpected. So I had to upload the picture again. These are my two daughters.

Starting on WordPress

I have a blog already. It is hosted at Blogger. And I like it. But I like to be able to extend my blog with my own web software. That is where Blogger API falls short of my needs. I want to see if wordpress is any  better. Hence the account here. Hence the blog.

 I am not going to write stories twice. Most of what I say will stay in one place. But you can subscribe to the feed of my blogspot blog (in the side column you see the stories titles).  You can also see other stories here, that are imported from Blogspot automatically. WordPress is a great software and service.