{"id":132,"date":"2004-02-25T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2004\/02\/add-ons-to-the-blog-or-how-i-love-the-free-services-on-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2004-02-25T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-25T21:52:00","slug":"add-ons-to-the-blog-or-how-i-love-the-free-services-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2004\/02\/add-ons-to-the-blog-or-how-i-love-the-free-services-on-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Add-ons to the blog… or How I love the free services on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

So while spending time chatting on flickr<\/a>, I came across this website called AllConsuming<\/a>, mostly because the guy behind AllConsuming, Erik Benson, created a service tied into your contact list on flickr called Connectr<\/a>. I’ll let you go to those sites and see what they’re all about. What I do want to tell you here, is that AllConsuming allows me to put in a snazzy “currently reading” list into my blog with minimal fuss and with all working links to Amazon and whatnot.<\/p>\n

To coin a phrase… “That totally rocks, duuuude!!”<\/p>\n

The next thing, HaloScan<\/a>, the service I have been using for commenting, has now implemented trackback too. More power to them! (More power to us bloggers too!)<\/p>\n

And if I hadn’t mentioned this before, both these services are totally free. No strings attached. No pop-up ads, no spyware installed on your computer, no… oh well you get the point.<\/p>\n

Let’s tally up a few things that go into this blog: I create it using blogger, that’s free. I host it at webspace my school gives me, that’s free. I use DynDns<\/a>‘s WebHop service to cloak and redirect requests from oook.blogsite.org to the actual url, that’s free too (with one single small pop-up), and, using HaloScan, I have commenting and trackback, all free. I Love the Internet!! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So while spending time chatting on flickr, I came across this website called AllConsuming, mostly because the guy behind AllConsuming, Erik Benson, created a service tied into your contact list on flickr called Connectr. I’ll let you go to those sites and see what they’re all about. What I do want to tell you here,… Continue reading Add-ons to the blog… or How I love the free services on the Internet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[11,4,70,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}