testing a plugin

So, control & options is one of those things that is important to building and maintaining a website.

You can go and use all the crazy services like flickr, facebook, linkedin, twitter, talkshoe, etc … but what happens when you want to leave?

Could be the site shuts down, or something better comes along.  One example of this is my personal blogging. I use to use a vox.com account fro two reasons:

1. privacy features
2. ease of use

Yet I always had in the back of my mind that I would probably end up with my own site one day … I still use the vox.com account from time to time – because it saves me time & not all posts should or must be public.

URL Control

Today I found a potential solution for one issue I have had for years In podcasting, or just suggesting stuff with websites, one issue is when you make a link and link to the same thing over and over … what happens if you don’t whant that link known (or to go to the same place) forever?

Like ArtistInsider – first used a file hosing service titled libsyn , then talkshow, and we are not sure what we will do in the future.

When we moved from libsyn to talkshoe, it was a pain to not only move over 100 or so files, but also to go through and update the posts/links for the files. What if we could do it all in pne place?

Pretty Links

This is a wordpress plugin that allows you to basically do the same thing that tinyurl.com or tr.im (my fav right now) but on your own site & you can change the link a link goes to later (unlike the other systems)

so as a test I threw in two links to see how they would work:

http://www.jonathannation.com/AIQA-GRTwitter.mp3 – goes to an Artist Insider episode

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

http://www.jonathannation.com/twitter – goes to my twitter page

This does not solve everything, but it is a start and it with some other techniques might make it where everything works out the way I want it to.

Now to go find a good short domain name / URL to register – so I control it.

Ramsey speaking at Murfreesboro Tea Party

Other side of Ron Ramsey speaking. He did promote the fact he is running for Govonor.

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Ron Ramsey at Murfreesboro Tea Party

Lt Governor Ron Ramsey spoke to the crowd in Murfreesboro, TN.

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in the crowd – Murfreesboro Tea Party

Taken in the middle of the crowd to show how packed in people were at the Murfreesboro, Tennessee Tea Party

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Rep Marsha Blackburn at Murfreesboro Tea Party

Representative Marsha Blackburn spoke earlier in the day at the Nashville Tea Party, then at the Murfreesboro one seen in this image.

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Murfreesboro Tea Party Crowd stage right

Around the small monument on one corner of the Murfreesboro, Tennessee square.

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Murfreesboro Tea Party Crowd stage left

From around the monument on one side.

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across the street – Murfreesboro Tea Party

From across the street at about the peak of the crowd that I saw. The people were packed in from the court house to the street, with a few people sitting on benches and such across the street.

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across the street – Nashville Tea Party

from across the street, part way up capital hill where you saw people sitting in shots form the other side of legislative plaza

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from the stage – Nashville Tea Party

From the side of the main state, looking down legislative plaza.

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