May 2006 Archives - 4/4

Adsense-heavy Theme for WordPress

May 4, 2006 By Ken McGuire 4 Comments

WordPress users can bask in the new adsense optimised theme, Ads Minded, which utilises what the author has dubbed ‘QuickSense’, providing a high CTR AdSense layout, support for various styles and shapes of AdSense ad units including link units, banners, skyscrapers via a three-column layout, with an optional square ad position which can be switch on and off. Coupled with several handy plugins, for those of you interested in blogging for money, this could be something to look at….

Or at least something for me to get my hands on and improve the looks of…

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Fancy A Free Router? Ask FON!

May 3, 2006 By Ken McGuire Leave a Comment

Via the FON blog….

“FON is giving away free routers in the European Union! If you live on a busy street and would like to become a Fonero send FON an e-mail with the view from your front window before May 12th. The offer is valid for up to 100 winners.”

How very handy indeed… Busy location, free router, spread the love if you’ve got it!
See also my previous post on FON explaining a little more about the setup.

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RoadDeaths.net Launches

May 3, 2006 By Ken McGuire 1 Comment

Some turnaround since yesterday – John‘s RoadDeaths.net has launched this morning and will be looking for community support and involvement. Hopefully the blogging community can help raise some awareness for the site and draw people’s attention to it and drive the point home about the carnage on our roads…

Filed Under: Irish Blogs

Simple Podcasting Tips

May 3, 2006 By Ken McGuire 6 Comments

As part of the ongoing development of KilkennyMusic.com, I’m looking to start a range of Podcasts over the summer months with various acts and bands that will be passing through the doors and the site. Should be a fun experiment for myself and hopefully bring some more attention to both the site itself, raise awareness of the name – and of course the bands involved!

Anyway, I came across some Podcast Promotion Tips via Small Business Brief which some people might find interesting. Its still all new to me so I do anyway….

Filed Under: Podcasting, Technology

Get Web 2.0 Certified

May 3, 2006 By Ken McGuire Leave a Comment

Caught this one yesterday and it amuses me…. Yes folks, you can now get web two certified! If you’ve got rounded corners on your site, have a blog, or maybe stuck in a CC license, or talk about anything mobile then you might just be Web 2.0 certifiable and never knew it!

What people get away with….

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Tweaks For Creative Imagination

May 2, 2006 By Ken McGuire Leave a Comment

I read Michele’s post over the weekend on adjusting his WordPress theme to the MW1 theme (Monetize The Web) which is based around simple support for AdSense.

Seems to work well – paste in your own AdSense code into the building blocks (pages used as includes in the templates), and presto, you’ve got neat inline contextual ads – one after your first post, one after your second, and one after your last.

K2 (which is what I’ve based the CI3.5 theme on) works a little different in that it uses a seperate loop file to control the displays of posts, asides, comments etc. However, a little bit of tweaking and I’ve ripped out the AdSense support, gravatar support, and recent articles links and ported them to K2, dropping them in at the right spots along the loop. At least now you’ll get a little more effective ad placement with K2 running….

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Google Maps For Irish Road Deaths

May 2, 2006 By Ken McGuire 9 Comments

Following on from his excellent idea for this morning, John has already commenced work on establishing Road Deaths, a new service based off Google Maps for highlighting the locations of road deaths for the year across the country. Following the bank holiday weekend, the figures for those killed on the roads this year has risen to 140 and will inevitably break the 300 mark by the end of the year as current trends continue. I think this will be a great resource entirely and will hopefully highlight, at least via the web, the black spots around the country.

The site will initially concentrate on the year so far (2006) before working backwards in time. Bookmark it, keep an eye on it – I know I will.

Filed Under: Irish Blogs

Find A Murder On Google Maps

May 2, 2006 By Ken McGuire 11 Comments

One of the most interesting uses of Google Maps to date comes out of the New York Times who have secured the records for every murder in the city – and plotted them on Google Maps.

It covers a period of 2003-2005 which includes over 1600 murders in the US.

Filed Under: Internet