Clipiversity needs your diggs!

May 22nd, 2007

Clipiversity, our new video podcast where we feature interesting things we learn on Clipmarks.com has been approved on Digg’s podcast section. I’d really appreciate your diggs to help get the show onto the “up and coming” list. Suggestions and comments about the show are always appreciated as well. Thanks!


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Posted by Eric Skiff Filed in Uncategorized, clipiversity, clipmarks, clipmarks.com, digg, podcast, video, video podcast, vlog
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Digg Video Thumbnails wordpress plugin

November 5th, 2006

digg_video_thumbnail I just noticed that Digg now allows you to specify thumbnails that will appear next to Digg stories pointing to videos hosted on your site!

Digg already has cool video thumbnails at the right for youtube videos, but I use blip.tv to host my videos, and I’d actually rather have my videos dugg right from FeltUpTv.com. To make it easy to specify thumbnails for each video, I’ve hacked together a quick wordpress plugin so I can do it right from the “write post” page.

This means that anyone running a videoblog on wordpress can install this plugin, get in touch with Digg, and start seeing thumbnails of their videos show up next to their Digg stories. I’ve just submitted Felt Up TV, so hopefully Digg will include thumbnails from there soon!

This is my first publicly released wordpress plugin, so please let me know in the comments if you find any bugs or need help with it, and I’ll do my best to get it working for you.

Download the Digg Video Thumbnails wordpress plugin.

Remember, you have to let Digg know that you’re including thumbnails before they’ll start picking them up!

Installation procedure:

  • Download the Digg Video Thumbnails plugin.
  • Unzip the file and upload the plugin to ~/wp-content/plugins/
  • Activate the plugin on the plugins page
  • Specify a thumbnail for each video by editing the posts. You’ll see a Video Thumbnail URL field where you can put the URL.
  • Get in touch with Digg and let them know you’re providing thumbnails using the “link element” method.
Posted by Eric Skiff Filed in Uncategorized, digg, digg video thumbnails, plugin, plugins, thumbnails, video, wordpress, wordpress plugins
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I’ve killed the “Links for Date” posts!

August 15th, 2006

After quite a few people letting me know that they weren’t the biggest fan of the Del.icio.us links showing up here in my main feed, I’ve decided to pull them.

If you did like seeing what I found interesting on the net, you can subscribe to my delicious links feed here:

http://del.icio.us/rss/Glitch010101

I’ll also be posting stuff over at Digg, here’s my link feed there: http://www.digg.com/rss/glitch010101/index2.xml

Del.icio.us holds my external bookmarks, all the things I want to keep track of, and digg is a bit more ephemeral, tracking what’s popular right now. Although both services are extremely similar, I use both in different ways.

Posted by Eric Skiff Filed in Uncategorized, bookmarks, del.icio.us, digg, favorites, tech, web
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