Well, I've been back to tuning my lenses. After finding a large problem with the Clearspring module for Amazon.co.uk (e.g. IE security settings can block it, breaking the entire page) I'm running through all the lenses where I had used it and replacing it with standard affiliate links to Amazon. This is also giving me a chance to do some more tuning for top 100.
Stephen Pile's Book of Heroic Failures has now been fixed so the images actually show.
The one that got the greatest tweak so far was the De Havilland Mosquito lens which has gained a few new pictures, some links and a bit more content. The main reason for highlighting it is the cover image for "The Shepherd" Amazon.co.uk just made available (on the left) showing the vampire and Mosquito in sight.
"The Shepherd" of course, has its own lens which will be coming in for a tune up as I work my way through.
Thursday 30 April 2009
The Shepherd
Wednesday 29 April 2009
Madeira - New lens #108
Lens Number #108
http://www.squidoo.com/madeira-wines
A new day and finally a new lens. The Brunel ones are fun but tiring, so I threw together this lens on Madeira, a fortified wine that I like.
I've even located an eBay shop that sells it for the lens. However, there is no guideline on whether you can sell alcoholic drinks through a G-rated lens. Nothing says you can't so the link is there, I've emailed the squidoo team, and I'll update when I get a response.
http://www.squidoo.com/madeira-wines
A new day and finally a new lens. The Brunel ones are fun but tiring, so I threw together this lens on Madeira, a fortified wine that I like.
I've even located an eBay shop that sells it for the lens. However, there is no guideline on whether you can sell alcoholic drinks through a G-rated lens. Nothing says you can't so the link is there, I've emailed the squidoo team, and I'll update when I get a response.
Tuesday 28 April 2009
Willard Price Portal finally live
http://www.willardprice.co.uk
Yes this is actually a squidoo lens, or to be precise, sixteen of them. A bit of backstory for this one: Some time ago I set to work on a set of lenses about Willard Price and his Adventure series. If you aren't familiar with the books Willard Price, a naturalist and author, wrote a series of children's books featuring Roger and Hal Hunt, a pair of young naturalists. There are a lot of resources available about them, but they are scattered all over the web so I thought I'd try to pull everything together.
There were sixteen lenses, one for each book, a bio and a portal page (lensography). They've have been getting some steady interest, despite my neglect, so I finally decided to do something with them. As in, turn them into my first Squidoo website.
This meant adding a consistant look, making sure they all link to the portal page, and there should be a fairly consistant feel throughout. The bio has been tided up a bit - to be honest a lot. The final touch is a domain name, which went through yesterday, after a few problems with hosters who didn't want to redirect to Squidoo. So, with thanks to EasySpace it's now live.
Willard Price
Final tweaks to be made might include pointing the domain name at the bio and not Adventure series portal, but we'll see how it works out.
Yes this is actually a squidoo lens, or to be precise, sixteen of them. A bit of backstory for this one: Some time ago I set to work on a set of lenses about Willard Price and his Adventure series. If you aren't familiar with the books Willard Price, a naturalist and author, wrote a series of children's books featuring Roger and Hal Hunt, a pair of young naturalists. There are a lot of resources available about them, but they are scattered all over the web so I thought I'd try to pull everything together.
There were sixteen lenses, one for each book, a bio and a portal page (lensography). They've have been getting some steady interest, despite my neglect, so I finally decided to do something with them. As in, turn them into my first Squidoo website.
This meant adding a consistant look, making sure they all link to the portal page, and there should be a fairly consistant feel throughout. The bio has been tided up a bit - to be honest a lot. The final touch is a domain name, which went through yesterday, after a few problems with hosters who didn't want to redirect to Squidoo. So, with thanks to EasySpace it's now live.
Willard Price
Final tweaks to be made might include pointing the domain name at the bio and not Adventure series portal, but we'll see how it works out.
Brunel's Great Ships
The Steamship of Brunel and Scott Russell in Full Steam
Buy From Art.com
The three Brunel lenses about his Great Ships have been updated, so I am happier with them. The legendary engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel built three ships during his career, each of which represented a leap forward in ship design. His last, the Great Eastern was too far ahead of its time, and was eventually dismantled because no practical use could be found for its unique design.
The SS Great Western
The SS Great Britain
The SS Great Eastern
For anyone interested in naval history, these three ships are definitely something to look into. The SS Great Britain, the sole survivor, is displayed at Bristol Docks. The Great Eastern, the largest was scrapped in the 1890's, but art.com has a really nice image of her, sails, paddlewheels, and screw propellers so I've linked it on the right.
I might try article marketing to promote them, but the only site that pays wants my tax details, and strangely enough I'm not happy handing those out so that's on the back burner for the moment.
Monday 27 April 2009
Directory of Lenses
Since I got over 100 lenses, trying to keep track of them all has been a bit difficult. As a result I've set up a directory of the lenses and am slowly adding all my lenses to it.
http://www.tirial.01dir.com/
The layout is reasonable, but I'm still trying to figure out how to put a search on it. I might move the directory somewhere else if I find one with better facilities.
Most recently updated lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/Domebo
Rather than creating a new lens I went back to this one for the Domebo online community and forum. There's new IRC details, a twitter feed and a few text changes, as well as the RSS of latest topics on the board for anyone who wants to have a look.
Domebo spun off from a board I used to go to, and despite only being a couple of months old, is growing pretty rapidly. It focuses on articles, information and general interests - the front page has had articles on everything from Kimono collections to whether there are athiests in foxholes.
(summary: yes, it's the smartest place to be when people start shooting.)
http://www.tirial.01dir.com/
The layout is reasonable, but I'm still trying to figure out how to put a search on it. I might move the directory somewhere else if I find one with better facilities.
Most recently updated lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/Domebo
Rather than creating a new lens I went back to this one for the Domebo online community and forum. There's new IRC details, a twitter feed and a few text changes, as well as the RSS of latest topics on the board for anyone who wants to have a look.
Domebo spun off from a board I used to go to, and despite only being a couple of months old, is growing pretty rapidly. It focuses on articles, information and general interests - the front page has had articles on everything from Kimono collections to whether there are athiests in foxholes.
(summary: yes, it's the smartest place to be when people start shooting.)
Sunday 26 April 2009
Top 100 Club
This is very much a test post, since I don't blog, but everyone starts somewhere right?
Since I'm working on getting into the Squidoo Top 100 I thought I'd start a blog to track progress. I've got over 100 lenses now, but several of these won't count for the challenge. By June I want to be on 150 so that hopefully I will qualify.
Newest Lens Longitude. (#107)
Lens Number 107
Since I'm working on getting into the Squidoo Top 100 I thought I'd start a blog to track progress. I've got over 100 lenses now, but several of these won't count for the challenge. By June I want to be on 150 so that hopefully I will qualify.
Newest Lens Longitude. (#107)
Lens Number 107
As you might have noticed from my past lenses, I tend to be fond of gadgets and technology. In the 1700's there was no way to determine Longitude at sea. After nearly 2000 sailors were killed in one incident Parliament established the Longitude Act, setting a prize for the person who found a way.
John Harrison's story, and those of the timepieces he built to solve the Longitude problem intrigued me. The Longitude lens includes pictures of most of the devices (I could not find a public domain image of H3) the history and the problem. It also covers their restoration in the 1920's by Rupert Gould.
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