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May 12 2010

A Look at WordPress 3.0

The second beta of WordPress 3.0 is ready and the official release for public consumption is not far off. There has also been a lot of buzz about some of the new features and I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention them on Blog de Puree, a WordPress blog. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s [...]

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Apr 04 2008

Check out the yachting blog “Where is D.J. Today”

Published by under Blogging,family,Writing

Anyone who enjoys reading Blog de Puree and who is a boating or yachting enthusiast should check out my brother-in-law’s blog, Where is D.J. Today. I was impressed with D.J.’s last blog post. His use of yachtsmen vernacular and the emotion of a captain that exuded from his post was really fantastic. “That the sea [...]

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Apr 03 2008

Using related links and content as you write: Check out Zemanta and 3DWriter

Published by under Blogging,internet,IT,Writing

A week ago, European startup Zemanta launched in Alpha with a product for blogs to suggest links, pictures and other related content and tags while you write blog posts. It uses a semantic analysis engine that serves up the relevant information in your Internet browser as you write. According to TechCrunch, this type of application [...]

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Mar 06 2008

WordPress may go social

TechCrunch blogs that Automattic founder and WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg may look towards developing social networking tools for its famous blog software. The news is that Matt hired Andy Peatling, “the developer behind BuddyPress, a social network built on top of WordPress. BuddyPress will now become an official WordPress project.” As many of our readers [...]

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Mar 03 2008

Blog de Puree gets another facelift

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We have a new look. Again. I hope it’s not frustrating to our readers. The last design, while cool as hell had too many bugs that I was not able to fix. This new design, called 3K2, is based off the original WordPress theme called Kubrick. We felt that this three-column design brought more information [...]

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Feb 29 2008

Random Friday video: How to talk like a Japanese prostitute

Published by under Blogging,internet,recreation

This video is R rated, and we’re not entirely sure where it comes from, other than being YouTube. But hey, if you’re looking to talk like a Japanese prostitute, this is the instructional video to watch.

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Nov 20 2007

A new look for Blog de Puree

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It’s high time we’ve updated the look and feel of Blog de Puree! And man, did we go for broke! With this new design, we’ve decided to incorporate graphics that really depicted what this blog is all about, a blend of many things. And of course, we’ve got the main players up above. Some important [...]

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Oct 08 2007

What our son will probably deal with in a few years

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Randye found this cartoon online, which gave us a good laugh. We figure our young son would probably be dealing with this issue.

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May 25 2007

WordPress as a content management system for niche communities

As many who read our blog have guessed, we use an opensource blog system called WordPress. Before we decided to install a version of it on our site, we did a little shopping around and found that it was quite easy to use and it received great recommendations. We’ve been using it about a year [...]

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May 24 2007

Social networking is no fish story on Angler’s Web site

A mentor of mine would often talk about an online niche publishing website that he helped to develop called Reel-Time. At the time of its founding, it was ahead of its time. A saltwater fly-fishing website that directed its focus to a micro-niche community when the Internet was just beginning to find its legs as [...]

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