I’m hosting the 202nd edition of the renown Christian Carnival. The Christian Carnival is a weekly recap of the thoughts and musings of Christian blog writers. It’s a great way to discover new blogs that you have never before read. It’s also a great way to catch up on current thoughts, trends, and news. Topics ranging from cinema, politics, Biblical Study and/or Christian parenting are usually covered in these Carnivals. It’s good reading. The diversity of theological thought is surprising too. Be sure to check out the following links! You may just find a brand new blog to add your feed reader! Peace. Read More
Christian Carnival CCII
Tribe’s Facebook Fan Page is Live!
Wess and Adam created Facebook Fan Pages in an effort to shamelessly promote their respective blogs. Well, I’m just as shameless as the next guy when it comes to blog promotion, so I quickly followed their lead!
I created a “Tribe Readers Group Page” on Facebook. A lot of my readers are already using Facebook too, so it won’t be too difficult for you to join the Facebook extension of the Tribe community. You can join Tribe’s Facebook Page here: Lo-Fi Tribe’s Facebook Page. Simply click the link titled “Become a Fan,” that is located at the top, right corner of the page. Fans of the site will be able to help shape content, participate in topical discussions, and receive community-wide updates via e-mails, wall messages, and video.
If you are already using Facebook you can add me as a friend if you have not done so already! if you are not using Facebook, sign up! It’s a great place to network and exchange information with people and groups from all over the world!
A Live Redesign in Process
Live redesign in process! I will follow the redesign up with a complete Internet Explorer 6 and 7 fix, of course. Gotta love Internet Explorer, right? Please excuse the mess while I tweak and push the CSS around the screen.
Tumble-Hybrid Sandbox Port Theme
This theme [Tumble-Hybrid] is licensed: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. This means you can modify it and re-distribute it freely, and - if you are feeling extra generous - leave the footer’s design credit line intact. It would be nice if people could still find the download page for the theme. So, please consider leaving some sort of link in place. Read More
Tumbling the Feed with Tumblefeed
More Tumblefeed plugin testing! I’m still testing out the Tumblefeed plugin by Ronald Heft of CaveMonkey50. The Tumblefeed plug will prevent an overload of posts being delivered to your feed reader. You’ll receive one update per day, of all posts for that day. It’s the same thing as the e-mail list option to receive a one time digest containing all the day’s messages, rather than individual messages throughout the day. So, please bear with us as we continue to test the plugin. Heft is awesome, by the way.
Porting Sandbox
I’m in the process of following Big Ben’s lead and trying to port this thing over to Sandbox (w/ a few changes). This is the way to go if you are turning your blog into a Tumblelog-ish sort of thing. So, thanks, Ben! Please excuse the dreadful mess while I try to accomplish this fun task. Ben, I hope you don’t mind, but I’m peaking at your CSS, bro. I’m getting quite an education!
Tumble-like Feed Available at Tribe Now
I have a quick update before I journey back into my hiatus. I came out of it briefly due to some pretty cool events surrounding this whole Tumble-Hybrid project. First of all, the thing was linked to in our WordPress dashboards, by Matt, which was very, very cool. More than a few people seem interested in this form of simplified blogging. Also, Ben Grey of Openswitch went to Ronald Heft with a need for a simplified feed for Tumblelog-like blogs. Ronald rose to the occasion and released Tumblefeed 1.0. The guy is a genius! Thank you Ronald! Also, I can not thank Ben Grey enough for helping get the Tumblefeed plugin running correctly. Thanks, Ben! Read More
Transforming Your WordPress into a Tumble-Hybrid
UPDATE: I decided to release my Tumble-Hybrid theme. It is a ported sandbox version. It is much better than the asides version detailed below … though you are free to use it too, if you prefer!
So, how did I make this blog into what I called a Tumble-Hybrid? I’m going to try and explain the steps I took to make it, rather than make my own theme available for download. I think half the fun is actually learning how to do it on your own. It’s also more of a theme hack, than it is a theme. So, the steps below are what you need to do to convert your WordPress weblog into a Tumble-Hybrid. Note: You’ll have to make slight adjustments to fit your theme. Read More
So, What happened to Your Blog?
Yes, the overall design of this blog took a radical shift over the course of three of four days. I have joined a growing number of people who are happily wandering away from the traditional blog display and are instead moving toward a mixed-media sort of publishing aka the “Tumblelog.” So, some posts appear in a dedicated style, depending upon their classification as regular posts, images, quotes, and/or video. I call this a “Tumble-Hybrid,” because it is part weblog, part Tumblelog, but neither. If that makes sense? I really want a log, rather than a weblog (or what weblogs have become). Read More
Fun with Mint 07302007
I’ve said it before, but I’ll happily say it again: I am thoroughly entertained by my site’s referral logs. Referral logs, for those who don’t know, offer website operators a little glimpse into the mind of the website reader. The log above is a record of search terms that led readers to this site. I enjoy the unexpected terms that show up in these logs … most of the time. Some are quite frightening; others are just funny. Read More