LJ and MySpace X-Posting Plugins

I am testing the MySpace Crossposter Plugin the LiveJournal Crossposter Plugin for WordPress. My Current WP Version is 2.3.3 and the plugins are both the latest versions.

Test results:

I managed to get the LiveJournal plugin to work just fine.  I am still having issues with the MySpace plugin.  I have contact the creator and asked for support.  I believe it is an issue with how I setting up the options and how they are named in by yahoo hosting.  If anyone else can get this to work I would be extremely grateful for a heads up.

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Increase Your Blog Traffic and Technorati Authority

Turning of the No Follow part of your WordPress Blog and posting to the list of sites who similarly have the no follow turned off appears to be the fastest way to get your blog popular with the right people. As a test I am using my more personal fun filled blog, The Other Blog, as a test site. As of this writing on March 3, 2008 I have a 0 Google Page Rank, and 0 Technorati authority. I will have posted using that site as a link in roughly 30 to 35 posts tonight.

36 hours after this test began I have a Technorati authority of 4 on The Other Blog. My own traffic is up even if the number of comments is still down. I have made less than 50 total posts on Do Follow Blogs and those few hours over that short of a time period is well worth it. I will continue build this up for a week and get back to y’all on how well it is working.

My next project will be to increase the blogsGoogle page rank while I increase the authority of both The Other Blog and Tiny World.

I will seriously slow down my posting to random blogs with the nofollow removed and just try and keep up with the dozen or so I really like. I as a blogger who doesn’t like spam anymore than the other guys I will say if you are trying to build your rating, at the very least read the post and respond with something relevant, so as not to spoil other peoples good will towards us.
I am posting my own list of Do Follow blogs at the You Comment - I Follow page

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Broken Wordpress 2.3.3 Permalinks

Upon upgrading my WordPress blog from 2.0.2 hosted on Yahoo, there was a permalink problem and everything save for what was visible on the homepage was unaccessible. Thanks to a great little plugin from Mark everything is fixed. Way to go Mark!

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WordPress 2.3.3 on Yahoo Networks

For some time I have been trying to figure out how to successfully upgrade my Yahoo based blog from Word Press 2.0.2.  After several attempts and a decision to transfer the domain I stumbled upon the upgrade method by chance.  Here are the steps.

1. First download your entire blog directory using and FTP client.  I like WS-FTP except you have to pay for it.  FileZilla, the best freebie is almost as powerful as WS-FTP, but it is free and much simpler to use unless you wish to have multiple FTP sessions going at once.
2. Once downloaded delete everything in the blog directory on your domain.  Do not delete the blog directory itself.
3. While deleting which may take a while if your blog was big, download and extract the latest copy of WordPress.
4. Once the deletion is over reset your blog update controls on the blog manager page to manual.
5. FTP everything in the WordPress directory to your blog directory
6. Upload your old blogs wp-config.php back to your blog directory.
7. Load your blog page and it will automatically take you through the rest of the upgrade process.
8. Happy blogging with all the new features and all your old posts.

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Fat People Must Weigh Before Eating??? WTF

In an blog post from Junkfood Science shouted out by Katy I must ask the serious questions of why and WTF.

From Mississippi

HOUSE BILL NO. 282

An act to prohibit certain food establishments from serving food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the state department of health; to direct the department to prepare written materials that describe and explain the criteria for determining whether a person is obese and to provide those materials to the food establishments; to direct the department to monitor the food establishments for compliance with the provisions of this act; and for related purposes. Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of Mississippi:

SECTION 1.

(1) The provisions of this section shall apply to any food establishment that is required to obtain a permit from the State Department of Health under Section 41-3-15(4)(f), that operates primarily in an enclosed facility and that has five (5) or more seats for customers.

(2) Any food establishment to which this section applies shall not be allowed to serve food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the State Department of Health after consultation with the Mississippi Council on Obesity Prevention and Management established under Section 41-101-1 or its successor. The State Department of Health shall prepare written materials that describe and explain the criteria for determining whether a person is obese, and shall provide those materials to all food establishments to which this section applies. A food establishment shall be entitled to rely on the criteria for obesity in those written materials when determining whether or not it is allowed to serve food to any person.

(3) The State Department of Health shall monitor the food establishments to which this section applies for compliance with the provisions of this section, and may revoke the permit of any food establishment that repeatedly violates the provisions of this section.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2008.

Yeah these guys are serious about passing this bill, but I have to ask why and what the motivations really are. Do they want people to be healthy? Not on your life. this bill if passed will wind up in front of the courts so fast it isn’t even funny. This is an attempt to get the supreme court to say state laws using the guise of health to declare what consumers can and can’t consume in public are unconstitutional. This of course could backfire on them and it be upheld which will doom the politicians responsible. However if the courts say the state can’t regulate what legal products consumers can use in public, then they will also effectively overturn public smoking bans. Which ever way this train wreck goes, it ought to be a good show for bloggers.

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