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News driven by public relations? (GASP!)
I would have normally posted this in the link blog, but as I started writing my commentary it just got long and I figured it should go here.
Immediately the comments on the post I link to veer off into things like “there’s more of that in the USA” and such, which leads me to a point about This Is Reno. We are what we call an “unfiltered news site.” That means we reprint press releases with a disclaimer that it’s a press release. We actually, if old school newsies can believe it, are rather proud of this fact. That’s because we (generally, I in particular): 1) come from places that produce such things and have seen how they are...
The death of a Baby!
Reno Baby! is officially dead. After a broadcast message a few weeks ago in which I asked if anyone wanted to take it over—and understandable,no one did—I killed it last weekend.
Just about everyone who reads this site was a member of Reno Baby! It was a network on Ning that I began with Jim Scripps in November 2007. We were chatting and he asked if I had ever heard of Ning. I hadn’t, so I went to the the site. As is pretty natural when something intrigues me, I just signed up. It was so easy to “create your own network” that in five minutes I had Reno Baby! up and running.
Shutting down an impersonator on Twitter
As some of you may already be aware, somebody recently started up a Twitter account using my name, picture, and a slight variation of my username to throw insults around at various local personalities. My initial reaction was one of surprise. While I have a pretty good idea who the genius behind it was, I never thought the account would catch on—which it didn’t. See, my relevance left the building as soon as everyone else realized that they could do what I do (hint to social media salespeople—you’re not nearly as smart as you tell people you are).
I was going to let it go, as it was little more than a minor annoyance. But the thought occurred to me that I could learn something from...
Using CSS to create a mobile-friendly site in Textpattern
I looked for months for an easy way to make this happen. I originally tried to do it through a separate section in Textpattern, but I don’t know enough about PHP to make the sections match up, so doing it that way would require me to post everything twice—not an option. I searched every once in a while for a plugin similar to the Wordpress Mobile Plugin Pack but never found anything. Finally, about a month or so ago, I came across what might be the simplest possible solution imaginable.