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Tamka

22i design — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:46:00 +0000

A set of extensions to bring blogging power to Joomla! CMS.

My friend, designer Arno Zijlstra , just pinged me regarding a new Joomla! project that promises to bring “blogging power to individuals and communities” on the Joomla! Content Management System. The project is called Tamka (Speak Up!)

As a long-time Blogger (this blog is Blogger-powered) and WordPress user, it’s good to see Joomla! getting some attention in the blog tool department but what exactly we’ll be getting we don’t know yet.

I’ve never seriously used Joomla! as a pure blogging tool and, quite frankly, it’s not supposed to be. Not only is there a ton of core code but Joomla! is a far more powerful fully-featured CMS and a blog should be considered as one channel of your web offering.

is4profit.com, the SME resource website, is a Joomla! powered portal for small business information & advice and apart from the many sections within their site they would benefit from a business blog, so let’s see if the new Tamka.org can pique their interest when it’s released.

We’ll keep you posted or you can follow Tamkaorg on twitter.

UPDATE: Tamka is live and looking good. Congrats to the team and here’s looking forward to testing

Wordpress 2.0.9 & 2.1.1

22i design — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:34:00 +0000

There’s new bug fix and security releases in versions Wordpress 2.0.9 and Wordpress 2.1.1

Blogger Hijacks XML feeds

22i design — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:44:00 +0000

Last weekend I couldn’t log in to Blogger under my old username & password, I kept being redirected to the new Blogger login page. Whether it was a quirk of cookies, my machine or blogger forcing me to upgrade, I don’t know but I was desperate to post quickly so, until I moved to new blogger, I couldn’t porogress. So I signed up.

This other blog site is hosted on its own server with its own domain name and simply uses blogger as the tool to publish the articles there. The Atom XML feed has always been at the path http://www.mydomain.com/atom.xml

And yet I noticed in one forum that uses that exact xml feed path that the “Recent blog:” link displayed next to my profile on every post I made is pointing to blogger.com/feeds… I checked my control panel and the path is http://www.mydomain.com/atom.xml… yet viewing my profile and posts the link is blogger.com/feeds…

With numerous links to my feed and my site, my domain has accumulated, since 2004, a reasonable amount of InBound Links (IBLs) which may or may not have helped with both traffic and a reasonable PageRank… PR5 for a personal blog.

Recently my PR has gone down from PR5 to PR4 and the number of IBLs has gone down by over 150… I suspect it may have something to do with the feed now pointing to blogger.com/feeds rather than http://www.mydomain.com/atom.xml

Whatever has happened I’m a little annoyed at losing links, annoyed at losing PR and annoyed that MY links to MY feed are hijacked by blogger which uses it’s own URL and not mine.

Looking at the page source of my blog I see a new format for the feeds. So here’s the new lines that blogger places within the tags of my blog and not within the head…

It seems to be this new service.post that’s getting all the links.

I’ve been good to Google and stuck with Blogger despite all the time outs, down time etc… but maybe it’s time to move on… I really do like WordPress and the other WordPress sites I run have caused me no trouble like this at all over the last few years… and if I want the xml feed to MY domain I’m sure WordPress will b ehappy to allow me to do so…

I’m off to do some experimenting, I’ll report back my findings.

And if anybody knows any workarounds or hacks for this problem please let us know and we’ll share it here