Allen Lew’s Thoughts

In a similar vain to the Job Board I built for the LA Urban League, I created an event board using Wordpress. The main plugins I’ve used are the Event Calendar for the event information and the Geopress plugin for locations.
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Inspired by Recruitpress, a job board made with Wordpress and a couple of packaged plugins, I’ve just deployed a job board for the Los Angeles Urban League. Basically, I’ve replaced the Secure Form Mailer Plugin For Wordpress, used to apply for this job section of each job post, with the cforms plugin, which I [...]

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For me, not that many:
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(via Kottke)
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Collegescholarships.org is offering a $10,000 scholarship for college bloggers. Like almost everything I see nowadays, I wonder why they didn’t have this when I was in college and was still writing Calstuff (via Read/WriteWeb).
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Google bigger than God?-This, among other Google Trends, found by Steve Rubel.
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Chronicles of the American Civil War and the The Blog of Henry David Thoreau-Both take excerpts from real life journals and news stories from one day in history and put it on a blog. Very cool.
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Firefox 1.5.0.2: Finally an Intel Mac version and a fix for that annoying Gmail crash, among other fixes.
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Metroblogging Azeroth: The town world (thanks Tony) of Azeroth in the game World of Warcraft has more than 5 million people in it, which would make it the 28th most populous city in the world and . There’s also a lot interesting stuff going on there, so why not have a blog about [...]

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So we’ve all done a few of those surveys and our friends do that too. But did you know those kinds of survey’s could lead to people *gasp* finding out our interests *gasp*, particularly *gasp* online predators *gasp*?
From a Dateline NBC article on Myspace:
Stafford: You dont think you gave him any private information?
Amber: No. [...]

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TypePad - Widgets: Not to be outdone by Wordpress, Typepad’s now got their own set of widgets for use on your blog. Hope they release a plugin soon for Movable Type installations. (via Download Squad)
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