Something about Nothing

WordPress has a new look for the Dashboard

I do not know if I like it, maybe it’ll grow on me. But as of now I’d prefer the old dashboard design. The main reason why I visit the dashboard is to find the top posts, wordpress news and growing blogs. Now all these have been pushed to the right column and are not in focus. I know what stuff has been happening on my blogs (comments, posts etc), what I don’t know is what is happening in the blogosphere - to that end the old dashboard design was better.

But then this new dashboard look has not been announced, maybe it is just a trial run.

Update: The announcement for the New Dashboard is up. Scoble’s thoughts on it.

Technorati: WordPress, Dashboard, New Look

… or some new WordPress Feature?

I clicked on WordPress Blog Stats and got this chart instead of the normal line chart that shows the blog-traffic. I got the same chart on WordPress Feed Stats tab too. The normal charts returned the second time I clicked on those tabs.

Click on the image for larger view.

Anyone else getting these different charts? Or was I at the right place at the wrong time to take the screenshot?

Technorati: Bug, WordPress, Blog Stats, Feed Stats

Not a proper demand, but just a wish for an additional feature in RSS aggregators - Bloglines or Google Reader, anyone.

Whenever any post is updated, the feed for that is sent out again, and the whole post appears in the aggregator. Now searching for the updated part is very difficult, unless the writer has explicitly used Update.

I want a feature in Bloglines/Google Reader that would highlight the updated part, or present the updated part in such a manner such that it is easily noticeable. And yes, there should be an additional utility, which allows me to ignore those updates that just changed the errata; I should be able to specify that this is the number of words that must have changed before fetching the feed again.

I know it’s a bad demand, but I am too lazy to search for updates and I also cannot ignore the item, as there may be a good, interesting, newsworthy update.

Does any RSS aggregator provide any such feature?

Technorati: Bloglines, Google Reader, RSS Aggregators

Yesterday the PageRank of my blog was a measly ‘3′ and see it today!!

Whoa! One night and I have gained 2 ranks; that was quick…

Links:
Google explains PageRank
PageRank on Wikipedia
Check PageRank of any site
PageRank of all links in a page

Technorati: PageRank, Tools

The Demand-and-Supply rule is not working. I keep on demanding, and no one seems to be listening. Anyways being a die-hard optimist, here is my next money minting idea.

Right now in India there is no dearth of people in the age-group 20-25 who are raking in moolah - lots and lots of money, with absolutely zilch responsibilities and who love to spend. Now every year they are faced with a huge dilemma. The Government takes away too much money in form of Income Tax; the best way to reduce Income Tax is to do investment. But being the pampered kids we usually are, these worldly matters escape us, unless there is some proper guidance.

What I suggest, is to build a website that would take my age, income, risk factor (whether I would like to take risks or play it safe), the type of returns I want (long term or short term), the life-policies that I hold, the amount I am willing to invest, my future plans (do I plan to buy a house soon or do I plan to go for more studies and such matters) and all necessary information as input and based on the returns of various Mutual Funds, Infrastructure Bonds, National Security Certificate, Fixed Deposits suggest to me the best or the most appropriate investment-plan.

Any takers?

Technorati: Business Idea, Investment, Income Tax, Online Investment