Author Archives: J.J.

Five days, five new features: Populating the superfooter columns on day 4

Yesterday, I added the superfooter to Red Pill.  And truth be told the new blog features I’m going to talk about today were actually added yesterday (after all, it would be hard to have a viewable superfooter unless something was in it), but now I’m going to describe exactly what code I used to make [...]

Five days, five new features: Adding the superfooter on Day 3

Significant changes to Red Pill’s layout today as I added a superfooter to bottom of the blog design. In my opinion, superfooters are an underrated design element.  So many blogs just load up on their sidebars that it ends up taking focus away from the content within a post. On some blogs – tags, recent [...]

Five days, five new features: Adding ‘Related Posts’ on Day 2

Yesterday, I added in the All-in-one-SEO-pack plugin for WordPress.  A relatively simple kickoff to my five days, five new features series I’m running this week to get myself back on the wagon with blogging.  Or is off the wagon.  I get those confused all the time, so who knows.
Today, I’m going to adding a list [...]

Five days, Five new features for Red Pill: Day 1 is SEO

Last week, I basically wrote about blog neglect.  Some of that neglect has been a result of client work that we’re just not quite ready to start talking about yet.  But some of the time suck has been due to some internal tasks…many of which are related to this very blog.
So in effort, to roll [...]

Dear Blog…

No, I haven’t forgotten about you though I’m sure you’re feeling just like my turntables have felt the last 2 years – neglected.  After all, it’s no fun to sit around collecting dust.
Excuses?  Nah, I don’t have any of those for you.  But I’m happy to share what I’ve been up to.  My offline life [...]

Boombox

We interrupt the regularly scheduled programming on Red Pill to give you…well, yet another shiny new toy. 
This time it’s Boombox - a site for mp3 mixes we built using the Opentape server.
It’s no secret that I’m a massive fan of the mix tape.  Anyone who grew up in the 80’s has made many a [...]

Facebook’s Killer Feature

Telling you it’s someone’s birthday.  It’s the best reason to login to Facebook on a regular basis.  If only my entire family were on Facebook.  I wouldn’t miss a nephew or uncle’s birthday ever again.

Wordle Clouds of Obama and McCain Acceptance Speeches

Wordle is currently my favorite web toy for playing (and procrastinating).  In case you don’t know, Wordle allows you to create word clouds from blocks of text and RSS feeds.  The flexibility you have in selecting colors, fonts, and text sizing allows for a number of creative possibilities. 
But the tool also allows for a [...]

Google’s new toy is so shiny they named it "Chrome"

Today, Google dove headfirst into the browser wars by releasing their own browser - Chrome.  I’ve downloaded it, installed it, and have now been using it for 30 minutes.  Here’s what I’m thinking…
Yes, it loads super fast.  And that is definitely a welcome improvement from my beloved, but sometimes hated Mozilla Firefox.  Firefox currently takes [...]

Hurricane Gustav, CNN, and Twitter

I have previously written that I believed Twitter’s tipping point was coming on November 4, 2008 - the night of the Presidential election.  In that post, I wrote about how Twitter would cross into mainstream media and we would be seeing Tweets being quoted by news anchors. But Hurricane Gustav has played in a role [...]