hackblog@wonderwinds

Here's what clustrmap.com has to say about clustrmaps:

See at a glance where your site's visitors are located: instantaneously, even when the numbers are enormous! Visitors don't need to click on anything: just viewing your page is sufficient.

On my multipost pages you can see one in my sidebar. If I switched to a skin with a sidebar on single post pages and page-type pages you probably wouldn't see one there because that's an option I put in the plugin. Plus a few other options.

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I know how you feel: if you're actually using multiple blogs it hurts your fingers to try to manage your widgets effectively. Blog settings, pick a blog, pick a container, install a new widget, up arrow until it is where you want it. Repeat until FINALLY everything is just right. Until you want to add a new widget You're sitting there thinking "wow this really hurts my fingers".

Okay no problem: we can fix that, but first let's know exactly WHY we need to fix that. Global Warming. Global warming is b-a-d BAD! That's right: every time you're forced to click a hundred times to set up your widgets you are contributing to global warming. All the energy you burn to move your fingers combined with all the energy it takes to fire your computer combined with all the energy it takes to transfer the new settings to your server combined with all the energy it takes to actually save those new settings combined with all the energy it takes to show you the results of saving those new settings is enough to melt an iceberg or two, and we don't want to melt any icebergs. Do we? Now ask yourself: are you still thinking about your little fingers getting tired, or are you concerned more with your children's children's children not living in a world submerged by rising seas with nary a chance to heave a rock encased in a snowball drizzled with water for that "extra crunch" action at an unsuspecting motorist? I thought so. Follow me then and together we'll save the planet.

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Quick Text gives you (get ready for it) quick text when you post. Creative eh? So here's the deal: sometimes you write the same bit over and over, so why write it? Why not have a little button insert pre-written stuff for you? That's what motivated adding this to my list of tremendously useless plugins.

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I haven't actually installed this one yet so I can't show you how it works, but it's pretty simple: you install the plugin, then go to your Tools tab, then the Acro-Link sub-tab and add keywords. You then write your post and whatever keywords are in your post will become either hyperlinks or acronyms.

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For b2evolution v2.4.0-RC2, this plugin will make a widget that will give you a random youtube that you can stick in your sidebar. Technically you can stick it in any container, but really I was thinking about the sidebar when I made it.

You're impressed - I can tell

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This is kinda neat I think, and thanks to beano for actually doing the code that became this plugin. What it does is finds your latest comments then lists them by post, only it'll show each post only once. So like if your last 50 comments are all on the same post then it shows only one "hot topic". Makes sense since that's where all the action is yah?

I tweaked it up a bit but there's still some stuff I'm not too happy with. Like for example it had (and has) a "limit" parameter which in theory is the number of item's you will display. Problem is see above because if you limit to 10 and all ten comments are on one post then you only get one hot topic listed. My tweak was to make up a "hotness" factor that more or less extends the limit parameter upward so that you can get more posts (up to the actual limit value) in your hot topics list. Basically it'll triple the limit value if you set hotness to 0 with regard to how many comments to look for unique posts in.

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Another widgetizing plugin you pretty much couldn't live without but had to, till now.

CountDown counts up (from) or down (to) a date and optionally a time of your choosing. It's pretty simple to use but there's a readme just in case you're into that sort of thing. Basically you put in the date and (if you want) the time of your 'event', then pick whatever text you want before and after the bit that it'll make.

"The bit it'll make" will be something like this: 4 years 8 months 23 days 11 hours 41 minutes and 57 seconds. So if you're counting up you'll precede it with something like "It has been " and follow it with something like " since a day in the past". Obviously if you're counting down you'll precede it with something like "Another " and follow it with something like " until a day in the future".

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Dudes I totally rock!

Here you will find a shiny new plugin that allows bloggers to apply a creative commons license to their blog posts.

• You pick the license
• You pick the national port
• You pick how it looks
• By "you" I mean each blogger on a multi-blogger system

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