Harmless Blogging Could Re-Name Our Favorite Site

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And it started out innocent enough. A good blog posting from Tat called “Determining Which Crap To Take Off Your Site” where he made an innocent comment, a totally harmless comment, “BumpZee stays (it’s really BUMPZee but I’m lazy) and may go up higher on the page.”

To which Scott Jangro replied to almost immediately, being the involved community creator he is, “I’ve been thinking of changing the official spelling because I’m lazy too. I usually just spell it Bumpzee.”

“Noooooo!” I thought, “Say it isn’t so!”

I have been writing posts now for two whole days and working hard to make sure I type B-U-M-P-z-e-e-! BUMPzee! – Because I dig the name!

So, that spun me off in a whole new direction today, because, hey, who needs to work when the fate of our affiliate community hangs in the balance??? I went out and found a survey tool called Democracy 2.0.1 – Downloaded it – Tested it (well, I created a site survey and voted once… so, technically, I tested it… right?) – And now, my brothers and sisters, I present it to you – the poll for the future of BUMPzee!

*ahem* er, well, officially, this poll means nothing, heck Scott doesn’t even know I am writing this article, but let’s have a little fun, shall we?

So, without further ado:

{democracy:2}

Tales of Javascript, WordPress, AdSense Deluxe and BUMPzee!

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I have figured out how to get the BUMPzee! buttons to work consistently in WordPress 2.0 by using a wonderfully free and easy plug-in called AdSense Deluxe.

 

AdSense Deluxe was created to allow folks to install AdSense in their WordPress 1.5+ blogs.  The reason it was needed was that <script> and WordPress do not play nice together when you are writing posts.

 

Of course, you can write <script> if you are modifying the WordPress files directly.  But, the beauty of AdSense Deluxe is that it will allow you to add <script> directly to your written posts.

 

It is a bit clunky to use it with BUMPzee! because you need to create a new AdSense Block for each article, but let’s consider it a “stop gap” until Jangro can create a more user friendly way for us “WordPressers” to have the live BUMPzee! button functionality. 

 

You can download AdSense Deluxe from here.  The compressed folder comes with a readme.txt which is exceedingly easy to understand and to install.

 

Once you install AdSense into your plug-ins directory, you can go to the Options panel through the WP Dashboard and create a new AdSense Block for each article you wish to track.

 

For that matter, you can use AdSense to make adding ANY sort of <script> in your written articles – this should be extremely valuable to affiliates who need to use scripting and want it to be part of their content.  Check out http://www.NewsMasterNetwork.com under the article titled Full Coverage Car Insurance – Fact or Fantasy? you will see an InsureMe box installed directly into the article text using AdSense Deluxe to accomplish it.

 

I hope you find this useful – it is amazing what you remember after not sleeping for a couple of days!

BUMPzee! – We Are Baby Steppin’ Baby

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Joined BUMPzee! today – it is a Digg‘esque community for affiliate marketers.  They offer a Widget to track visitors, recent blog articles and “bump” votes for newly added articles.

 Their description from their site follows:

There are lots of affiliate marketing blogs to go through. We all have our feed readers, but may miss a really good entry. If you find a blog entry that you like, come here an give it a bump.

Beyond that, Affiliate Marketing is all about relationships. And here we have the beginnings of a new community site. Keep track of all the happenings in affiliate marketing through the aggregated blog listings, local content, and make contacts with the other members, all affiliate marketers.

Create and account now and participate. Get yourself on the map. Post an RSVP to industry events. List your own blog. Start a discussion. Connect with other affiliate marketers.

To join – click here.

Comedy & Tragedy

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I have long believed in what I have observed – media very much has the capacity to influence our actions and emotions.  After all haven’t you ever found yourself laughing or crying at a movie, theatre play, or even from a familiar piece of music, and then days or even weeks later thinking about the thing which touched you?  Slowly, these things have an impact.

 

However, after watching things over the past few years and most recently the past few weeks, it seems that the general public can be found, at least, partially at fault for the tremendous pandering the media performs on a daily basis.  I am not certain that there is some grand conspiracy where a group of people plot to distract the masses because it appears to be our Nature to be distracted.

 

The interplay is like some tragic, mythic hydra where the separate heads keep cannibalizing each other and more keep growing back.

 

It seems a bit fantastic that we choose to be distracted by the comedy of a young mother shaving her head or the tragic losses of Anna Nicole Smith?  Albeit, I think the distraction here has a lot more to do with money than with the tragedy of Danielynn’s loss.

 

What should we do?  Who knows – although, I think Hercules might be inclined to torch the heads and bury the root.  Irregardless the center of the issue appears to be unending and its lifeblood poisonous and until we can admit that, we will never take steps to correct it.

Let’s Get Started – Theme: TypoXP Reloaded

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TypoXP Reloaded 1.1

So, I am digging this WordPress theme TypoXP Reloaded.  Initially it seems very cool.  It is enabled for Plug-ins, Widgets and Google AdSense.  Wow, three links in the first sentence, this blog is off & running.  The theme is being actively worked on, in fact, that the most recent update was February 10, 2007 and the author, Everton Blair, while he does not appear (via his discussion forum) to be a “Theme God,” he does appear to be seeking and receiving advice from the likes of Ajay D’Souza.  I have used some of Ajay’s themes before, and I have found them extremely functional and easy to customize.

So far, I have updated the AdSense code per the readme file provided in the *.zip which I downloaded yesterday.  So far, I am not seeing any AdSense Ads showing up.  Although, it may take a few hours for Google to figure out the content of the first article before we begin to see the ads cycle through successfully.  We will keep our eyes on this.