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BlakeImeson.com V2.0

Blake Imeson — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 01:56:28 +0000

So the site probably looks really bizarre right now. I’m FireReadyAiming this redesign.

The previous design was over 4 years old and quite dated. This new version will be more fun and hopefully better in all ways.

If you have any brilliant ideas design or functionality, share them please!

-Blake

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An April Fool’s Journey | Watch the Internet Lose its Mind

Blake Imeson — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:35:21 +0000

Every year the Internet collectively goes berserk for one day. I figured this year I would try and catalog some of it as it happens.

What follows is my log of the festivities. Happy April Fools Day!

(I will update this post as the day goes on)

6:00am – YouTube from 1911

6:10am - My friend Chantilly got engaged :)

6:10am – Hulu goes back in time.

6:40am – Google is hiring Autocompleters

6:44am - Gmail can now be controlled by your body!
Update: Looks like Google Docs is the same.

6:47am – The Pirate Bay won an auction for eBay itself.

7:30am – Woke my wife up and asked her if cats were allergic to Jelly Beans. I told her our cat had a few of them.
7:45am – Asked my wife if cats can get like babies do when babies have carrots and turn orange. She then sees…

8:10am – Envato announces a new 3D marketplace.

9:10am – Hootsuite releases “Happy Owls” – a more positive app than Angry Birds.

9:32am – Flickr has changed their logo to have an “e” in it. Rebranded as Flicker.

9:37am – Kodak has a new app to expunge your ex from photographs.

9:39am – Seth Godin unveils an awesome new startup named whItespAcelInks. (I’m even linking to them on all of my whitespace)

9:43am – Do a Google search for Comic Sans and Helvetica.

Please comment below with ones as you come across them!

Here is a good compilation post on Google tricks SERoundtable.

See a collection of WordPress April Fools

Newegg sold eggs.

A news anchor was tricked into licking an iPad

Google also now offers advertising on blimps!

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Google Reader Status – finally under 500 unread items

Blake Imeson — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:36:47 +0000

and here are my stats for the month :)

From your 261 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 7,451 items, clicked 339 items, starred 1 items, shared 0 items, and emailed 15 items.

and the really fun stat…

Since March 31, 2008 you have read a total of 142,001 items.

Wow. That is a lot of content. Granted, a lot of skimming happens. Still.

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Korean Ramen Noodles – Best way to buy online

Blake Imeson — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:38:46 +0000

I am addicted to Korean ramen noodles. There I admitted it. First step to recovery.

During college I was introduced to these amazing ramen noodles which are unlike any other ramen you will ever have. Some Asian friends of mine discovered that you could buy them directly from Amazon and they are cheaper than most international food stores. You can even “subscribe” to them on Amazon and they are periodically sent to you and at a 15% discount.

Since then I have probably bought 7 boxes in the last 4 years and of course shared with friends. Each box from Amazon has 20 servings. My Korean friends all say this is their fav ramen noodle brand.

Caveat emptor: they are spicy!

Comment below if you have tried these awesome ramen noodles!

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Blogoff!

Blake Imeson — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:15:26 +0000

I have thrown down the gauntlet and challenged my good friend and business partner, David Kuhta, to a blogoff.

The rules:

For the month of July the site with the most traffic as defined by pageviews wins

I will be blogging from blakeimeson.com and David from davidkuhta.com

Nothing like a good competition to get us both back into the habit of blogging good stuff.

Help me out and read/share my stuff :)

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Shared Links – More WordPress? Yep.

Blake Imeson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:38:04 +0000

Got a sizable amount of awesome links to dump on you today. Crazy, mad, ridiculously busy, that has been my last few weeks. There. That’s my excuse for infrequent posts. :) Onward…

Seth’s Blog: Things to ask before you redo your website – Great philosophical questions to answer for really anything you build on the web.

SEO

8 Ways to Target Keywords for Ranking and Usability | 10e20 – Very good summary of some important SEO concepts.

Web Design

CSS Sprites – Online CSS Sprite Builder / Generator – An easy generator to create CSS sprites to speed up your site. Google uses them like so…

Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets « Smashing Magazine – Grab some free high quality icons. I’m addicted to collecting these. Need any icons, just ask…

WordPress

300+ Resources to Help You Become a WordPress Expert | Webdesigner Depot – Good grief! This is an overwhelming, yet VERY helpful post.

How To Integrate Facebook With WordPress « Smashing Magazine – Talk about providing value! Smashing Mag never disappoints. I have been needing this info!

Themes

The Digital Business Card WordPress Theme – Human3rror – I Break Stuff.

Plugins

WordPress › Socialize « WordPress Plugins – Choose which social media icons to include on each post. Great idea.

WordPress › After the Deadline « WordPress Plugins – High quality spell / grammar checking tool for WordPress. Recently bought by Automattic, owner of WordPress.

WordPress › RSS Cloud « WordPress Plugins – New tech to make delivery of your RSS feeds quicker. Similar idea to PubSubHubbub. (Whose name always cracks me up)

ShopperPress – WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin – Another WordPress e-commerce plugin that looks promising. I wonder how it compares to WP-e-commerce or Shopp, among others.

Bonus

45 Brilliant Examples of Photo Manipulation Art | Noupe – fun post!

(Heads up: I’m hard at work on a huge post on WordPress plugins I’ve used)

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Shared Links – from Grove

Blake Imeson — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:11:57 +0000

These links are coming to you at the end of my first week of classes. Thus starts my senior year at Grove City College. Eeek!

Still have been reading some great things online and found these awesome links to share.

Study Shows Small Businesses That Blog Get 55% More Website Visitors – further proof that business need to be blogging. SEO value alone is worth the effort.

Five Minute Upgrade – Writing Blog Post Titles That Grab Attention

13 Vital Tips and Hacks to Protect Your WordPress Admin Area

OfficeTab – Adds Tabs to Microsoft Office – make Word, Excel, PowerPoint better.

Free and Commercial Stock Photography Sites

(New) 27 Circular Social Media Icons in 3 Sizes

Themes

Jungleland WordPress Theme

KeKo WordPress Theme

Bonus

Send a letter online :: Snailmailr.com – Cool way to send a “real” letter to someone.

30+ Fantastic HDR Photos by Grey Jones – if you don’t know what an HDR photo is, you must check this out. Gorgeous!

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Shared Links – new WP plugins & more

Blake Imeson — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:51:00 +0000

Latest helpful links I have come across since the last batch of shared links. Enjoy!

Twitter Tips for Beginners [VIDEO] from the amazing Darren Rowse (Problogger). This is actually more oriented for business use of Twitter.

13 Tips For A Better E-Commerce Website

20 Nice Free Handwritten Fonts – it is amazing the fonts you can get for free!

SEOmoz | New Mozbar – I use SEObook’s toolbar but this may someday be a good alternative. Any opinions? (both are Firefox only)

WordPress Resources – 48 Resources, Tips, Tricks & Themes | Think Design – has some great WordPress dev. blogs ( I am subscribed to most of them) and tutorials.

Themes

15+ High Quality Free WordPress Themes Released in June-July 2009

Brownie WordPress Theme

FreeStyle WordPress Theme

Plugins

45+ Essential WordPress Plugins for Pro Blogging | Blog Perfume

WordPress › Quick Search « WordPress Plugins – suggests search terms as you type.

WordPress › Dashboard Notepad « WordPress Plugins – leave notes in WP backend.

WordPress › WP Pubsubhubbub « WordPress Plugins – New Google technology.

WordPress Plugin Competition Blog » Section Widget for your section-specific needs

Best Commercial WordPress Plugins: Ultimate Review List – two of the best WordPress E-commerce plugins are in this post.

Bonus Tool

Spam-me-not – e-mail link obfuscator – I use this to build mailto: links that are not easily scrapable by spam bots.

Please send me a message or leave a comment if this type of post is useful to you. Or is this unwanted content?

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Shared Links – Spread the Love

Blake Imeson — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:30:52 +0000

From my ramblings through the never-ending fields of internet information…

3 Forum Search Engines to Search 40.000+ Message Boards

The Ultimate List of Basic SEO Resources for a Kick-Ass Start

WooCamp Blog – WordPress

Themes

Aubogasta WordPress theme

Plugins

CMS plugins for WordPress

CMS plugins for WordPress part 2

CMS Plugins for WordPress, part 3

40 Exceptional “CMS Enabling” WordPress Plugins

5 Fresh WordPress Plugins Ready to Enhance Your Blog

Bonus :)

The Word of Mouth KFC challenge

Check out my new partnership. I build/manage this blog, Scott writes the killer content. Sweet deal. Phone Savant | Tips, Tricks & Reviews. Amplify Your Mobile Life.

Spread the love!

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Shared links and State of the Blog

Blake Imeson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:10:54 +0000

I am going to try and save some cool links as I come across them and share them every week or two. No sense everyone reading so many feeds ;)

Gems from around the web.

If you can’t find an icon set for your blog here then you have problems.

72 Sets of Free Social Bookmarking Icons

Good point about corporate social media expectations: Social Media Doesn’t Work

Plugins

Manage Your Post Templates Easily

I have been trying to find a good WP plugin to showcase Google analytics in the WordPress dashboard. I like this one but it has been throwing harmless error messages which is annoying. Google Analytics Dashboard plugin It does show top keywords driving traffic to your site. This API is still fairly new so I am waiting to see what improvements come out.

Themes

40 Free Premium-Quality WordPress Themes – I especially like this new theme: Androida

21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes

23 WordPress Themes for your Website

Another decent blog theme TweetSheep Magazine theme

Nice grunge theme: Free WordPress Theme: Paper Wall

Where this blog is at…

I have published 25 posts. And even better, there are now 57 comments! Thanks for sharing your wisdom and thoughts.

This site has evolved and changed just as I have, in the kind of things I am doing and interested in. Namely, as I have become more obsessed with WordPress, so it has been reflected here. I have helped many friends and clients start their own WordPress sites and these posts have been written chiefly to them.

Stats

Active over a year and a half.

25 published posts

57 published comments

Now a Page Rank of 4! (more than it deserves, thanks Google!)

80+ RSS subscribers. (see counter below) If you haven’t already, please subscribe to my feed!

The top 3 posts have been:

21 LinkedIn Hacks, Tricks and Ways to Make Your Profile Better

Ultimate Guide to Self-Hosting WordPress

Start a Personal Resume/Portfolio Site, Here’s how.

Thank you all so much for your support and for encouraging me to share stuff on here. I hope it has been of value and I look forward to writing more in the future.

-Blake

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