Exciting news! The fine folk at LG have picked me to be a member of their Twitter Team for the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in a couple of weeks. I plan to tweet and blog like crazy, not just about LG but about the whole experience! Because my readership here is not hugely [...]
Alister Cameron // Blogologist
Changing the world. One blog(ger) at a time.
The top 100 most influential Australians talking politics on Twitter
18 October 2010 – 1:50 pm
Just read this article about some smart blokes over at Northwestern University who’ve developed what I immediately recognized as a pretty smart algorithm for ranking tweeps by influence against a given “trending topic”. So I picked an area where I could have a vague clue if the algorithm worked well or not, and was pleasantly [...]
Sorry for the silence
2 October 2010 – 3:44 pm
Sorry for the silence, friends. I’ve had much going on lately and little energy to go around. Please be sure to follow me on Twitter and Facebook. Meanwhile, I’m the guy building all the web infrastructure behind Ozfuze, if you wonder what I’m up to! addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alistercameron.com%2F2010%2F10%2F02%2Fsilence%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Sorry+for+the+silence’; addthis_pub = ‘alicam’;
A great little trick for debugging WordPress problems
3 June 2010 – 1:18 pm
This week I upgraded a new client’s WordPress blog from version 2.6 to 2.9.2. All went just dandy. Then today he emailed me to say that he’d noticed his post excerpts were not appearing where they were supposed to, in single post pages. On closer inspection I noticed that the excerpts displayed fine on the [...]
The Bees Awards officially launched. And I’m on the jury!
2 June 2010 – 8:57 pm
Today I’m excited to announce that I’m a member of the jury for the 1st International Social Media Marketing Awards — the Bees Awards. I must say that I feel very humbled to be in such esteemed company, with some real social media gurus to rub shoulders with, including my wonderful friend-in-blogging and mentor Liz [...]
What can you do with a Facebook fan page??
17 April 2010 – 7:33 pm
What fun can you have with a Facebook fan page? No idea… yet. But I’ve set one up for myself. Please spare a moment to “become a fan“. I’ll post a detailed how-to on my blog once I’ve worked out how to do some “sexy” stuff! addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alistercameron.com%2F2010%2F04%2F17%2Ffacebook-fan-page%2F’; addthis_title = ‘What+can+you+do+with+a+Facebook+fan+page%3F%3F’; addthis_pub = ‘alicam’; [...]
WordPress Loader – A much faster and easier way to get it up there!
9 April 2010 – 11:14 pm
If you’re like me, getting WordPress loaded onto a webserver for the first time is a pain. Some hosting companies use Fantastico, or some other automated way to get the WordPress code uploaded and unzipped on the server, but many don’t. Mine doesn’t. So what people like me have to do is download the ZIP [...]
My latest project – the One Minute Business Checkup
2 March 2010 – 9:02 pm
I’ve spent the last 10 weeks building a site for a client. Well, a web app. It’s called One Minute Business Checkup and it’s 100% my work… programming, DB schema, graphics, Javascript, the lot. I don’t like doing one-man builds like this, as a rule, but this was fun. Check it out. And if you’ve [...]
My Twitter account has been suspended!
14 December 2009 – 9:48 am
Awoke this morning to the discovery that Twitter suspended my account overnight. I’ve sent the relevant appeals out, so stand by for more details. Worried. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alistercameron.com%2F2009%2F12%2F14%2Ftwitter-account-suspended%2F’; addthis_title = ‘My+Twitter+account+has+been+suspended%21′; addthis_pub = ‘alicam’;
WordPress plugin: Add Categories to Menu
13 December 2009 – 4:03 pm
If you’re using WordPress as a CMS, you may have set up static pages for both a front page (e.g. “Home”) and a page to list your latest blog posts (e.g. “Blog”). I did that today for a client site and immediately realized that in the site’s main menu the Blog link would look a [...]
