This blog is mostly created using clips and quotes generated by
clp.ly. It's a tool that lets me easily grab a quote or a screen clip, format it how I want and paste it into any application that accepts rich text. It's great for turning what would have been a one line "look at this interesting link" blog post or email into something more visually compelling.
But that's only half the story. The other half of clp.ly is the 'Clip this story' button that you see below each post. It lets you grab a visual clip (
just click the button) or a quote (
select text and click the button) from an article in a way that give the author trackbacks and correct linkbacks at the same time as giving you, the person clipping, a great looking quote or clip.
Why does that matter? Well the web is a link economy, your links out and back are important, it's the primary way people discover your content. By making it easy for people to cite and link clp.ly drives traffic.
Try it - click the "Clip this story" button and paste a quote or image into an email or blog post. Easy!
Floyd Landis has sent e-mail messages to several cycling officials in the United States and in Europe in which he admits using performance-enhancing drugs for most of his career.
From www.nytimes.com via clp.ly
As a result of this Wales has relinquished his top level control over the encyclopedia's content. He can no longer add, delete, edit or do anything to a posting. This same release of control was also done across the parent company's other projects as well.
In advance of an expected announcement about its plans in China, Google has begun redirecting traffic to its Chinese site through Hong Kong, and has removed language warning searchers of censored results from its search results pages.
In what the New York Times called "an extraordinary session," President Obama began his speech by quoting Abraham Lincoln. "I am not bound to win, but I'm bound to be true," he said. "I'm not bound to succeed, but I'm bound to live up to what light I have."
This is music made by four postal workers as they cancel postage! When I listen carefully, I think I can actually hear the spring mechanisms as the stamps hit the ink. I love it as an example of music turning what is normally seen as a boring, repetitive task into something this joyful.
