This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, #FollowFriday recommendations, a bit more about WordPress security, related news, previews for next week’s posts on kikolani.com, and some awesome timelapse videos.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging / Design
- No one comments on my blog – what should I do?
- 13 blogging lessons learned from Stephen King’s On Writing
- Blogging as a personal development tool
- 8 layout solutions to improve your design
- 100 amazing free wordpress themes for 2009
Social Media
- When social networks fry the brain
- A Twitter user’s guide to scammers
Business
- 28 lessons on working happy from my Icelandic mother
- Don’t do business with this man
- Freelancing during a recession
This was an interesting collaboration between several blog owners and one guest writer, Dragos Roua of eDragonu, part of an internet first of massive guest posting.
- The Enthusiasm Business Age
- The Naivety Business Age
- The Attention Business Age
- The Maturity Business Age
- The Expansino Business Age
- The Leadership Business Age
- The Exhaustion Business Age
Personal Development / Growth / Self Improvement
- Top 50 personal development bloggers
- 55 ways to get more energy
- 65 ways to make her feel special
- Planning on not planning on anything
#FollowFriday Recommendations on Twitter
Here are my #followfriday recommendations.
- @EarlTwitition – if you’re a fan of My Name is Earl, and you want to petition to have it un-canceled, this is the tweet to follow.
- @iamkhayyam – this guy shares lots of useful and interesting articles.
- @ariherzog, blogger at AriWriter who is taking an interesting new approach to Twitter.
One more shout to last week’s recommendations: @Vered, @BWelford, @ExtremeEzine, @SharonMCP.
Also, if you enjoy this post and my tweets on blogging, social media, photography, and more, be sure to give me a shout out as follows:
RT @kikolani Fetching Friday – Resources, #FollowFriday, More Security Issues, & Timelapses > http://bit.ly/ewCPD
Related News
Why has it been so quiet on Kikolani?
This week, as some of you may have noticed, there have been new articles, but not many comment replies from yours truly. I wanted to keep up the posting pace, but I have had a lot on the agenda this week.
First, let’s get the bad stuff out of the way. There was the additional cleanup and paranoia of future attacks caused by the php expoit early in the week, as described in the following section on WordPress security. Also, an evening at home without internet.
Now the good stuff. Soulmates Wedding is up and running – lots of wedding and honeymoon photos. I re-organized a bit by moving a few things from my sidebar to the footer, adding Popular Posts to the footer, and finally adding the Top Commentators list to the sidebar. I also have my first freelance WordPress customization gig! So needless to say, it’s been a busy week.
I should be back to normal next week, and will get caught up on my comments. I have appreciated them all! 
WordPress Security
In last week’s Fetching Friday, I wrote about a PHP exploit – gumblar that I experienced on my WordPress site, and also shared some links to WordPress security tips.
At the beginning of this week, I experienced the new incarnation – martuz.cn of the same PHP exploit. This one took a bit longer to clean up, but I think I have finally seen the last of it, as my site has (cross my fingers) been normal for over three days now. For more about the clean up process and how to recognize if you have it on your machine, check out the article on TechJaws. Also, see these additional articles on securing your blog and WordPress security tips.
There is also another new thing going around, that I would love some input on. It happened to another blogger on WordPress – this script has added ads to their site. The ads are in a hidden div tag right after the body of every page, so you cannot see them when you are on the page, but if you search for the blog on Google, the description that comes up talks about gambling, poker, and lots of other things that this blog has absolutely nothing to do with. The only thing I have found so far on it is that it happened on a forum as well. Any advice or links to this exploit would be appreciated.
Preview for the week of 25 May 2009
Next week’s photographic selection will be from Disneyland, the next to last in my honeymoon series of photos. As always, I’m saving the best one for last.
This week, I detoured from my anniversary post because I was compelled to write “What is Success” instead. It was one of those couldn’t write anything else until I got what I wanted to write out of my system. So next week, the anniversary post. It’s probably more fitting, as this site started closer to the end of May anyway.
Timelapses
Pixel’s Revenge timelapse showreel from David Coiffier on Vimeo.
Timelapse from Bram Kok on Vimeo.
Shlino lake sunset time lapse from Timelapser on Vimeo.
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The Fetching Friday archives – tons of useful resources on blogging, social networking, and more
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Kristi,
This is a great Fetching Friday article. You have covered a weeks worth of great stuff in all sectors of social networks and beyond!
Thank you for the guest blog! I owe you one next week.
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Kristi,
This is getting addictive. I like the way you create your Fetching Friday structure and I see great potential here. I already sent you a DM on Twitter about this.
I loved the timelapses, they are fantastic! Also, couldn’t wait for the Disneyland photos.
Last, but not least, thanks for the link love and for the mention of the Massive Guest posting experiment. It’s still hot (like it’s been live only for several hours) but it was great fun and I already see how can I improve it.
Have a great week-end
Dragos Rouas last blog post..Massive Guest Posting
HI Kristi,
I think you have really found yourself here. A nice new design and every week gets better and better. Fetching Friday is on my “must read every week” list. Thanks for sharing.
I haven’t visited your blog in a while, Kristi–and I see what I’ve missed. You have a new theme, you are writing tons of content, and I’m sure more. Thanks for the kind words to suck me over here!
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The website site looks awesome. I know I shouldn’t look at it with my girlfriend because it may give her ideas but It looks really nice.
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Why has it been so quiet on Kikolani? That’s a joke right ?
I’m seeing you all over the internet spreading your love and joy
I’m so glad I know bloggers like you or I would of quit along time ago Serious.
Have an awesome holiday weekend hopefully you and your husband don’t have to wk
and can have a great time. I have a feeling that your about having a great time regardless of what you do
Your awesome and thanks for mentioning I told Frank I won’t mention I was first LOL << I could of just said that LOL
Happy LONG weekend everyone and God Bless Our Troops past and present.
and Stumbled
Kristi, those time lapses are fantastic! Thank you sooooo much for sharing them .
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Its a great article Kristi,very nicely done in all sectors of social networks. I like all these they are fantastic waiting for next week.
Very good website. Fantastic!
Congratulations!
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Hey Kristi, I agree with Dragos – I’m looking forward to Fetching Friday now too! I love the link on 100 amazing free wordpress themes – I got that bookmarked. That will definitely come in handy at some point in the future.
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Thanks for the links. Lot of links you have provided.
WIll check it
BTW, i changed my theme. If you get time, check it out and give your suggestions or complaints about the new theme.
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I like the Blogging / Design links, very useful.. Thanks a lot!
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I love the timelapse videos, especially the one taken over Shlino lake, absolutely stunning. Thanks for the heads-up on the PHP exploits too, always pays to be aware of these things so you know what to do if the worst does happen!
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@Frank: You’re welcome. I hope that if someone finds themselves with that exploit, they will find the information I shared useful.
@Dragos: That experiment is a first of its kind, and I can’t wait to see if it catches on and the benefits for all of the bloggers involved. And thanks for sharing your idea!
@Jonathan: Fetching Friday has really caught on, and I enjoy writing it. I try to add one new thing to the layout a week, but I am also trying to focus more on the content and less on always tweaking the layout.
@Ari: Glad to have lured you in again!
@KushMoney: I assume you mean my wedding site, Soulmates Wedding? I’m glad it is romantically inspiring.
@John: Well, I was going around the net, but I wasn’t caught up with my comments, which I am working on now. I hope you have a great weekend too!
@Stephen: You’re welcome. I love watching those.
@Landscapers Brisbane: Glad to have another Fetching Fridays fan!
@Bruno: Thanks!
@Celes: Keeping the themes sites bookmarked is a good thing… any time you are looking for a new layout, it helps to have them all handy.
@Nihar: I’ll definitely come by and take a look around.
@Hisham: You’re welcome.
@Stu: Definitely. There are more varieties of the PHP exploit going around, and each one seems to take just as much work to clean up.
Hi Kristi! Glad you’re “back” from the security problem. I’m really enjoying your Fetching Fridays, although I usually see them on Saturdays or Sundays.
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Kristi,
Another awesome Fetching Friday. Keep it up!
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Hi,
A great way to round up your findings. I love the new design on your site. The fixed background image is a great technqiue I apply on my client sites.
I’ve just released the blog interview that we conducted. Plus I’ve given you some link love.
James,
James Kings last blog post..Exclusive interview from blogger of Kikolani.com
What an eclectic mix of subjects for a blog post! I especially liked the time lapse videos. That last one of the flower is amazing!
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What a great mashup! I’ll be checking them out this week. I also really appreciate the link love.
My favorite time lapse was of the flower. Something so perfect and beautiful in it’s detailed simplicity. I’m still in awe.
Karl Staib – Work Happy Nows last blog post..The Ultimate Procrastination Remedy
“The ads are in a hidden div tag right after the body of every page, so you cannot see them when you are on the page, but if you search for the blog on Google”
Interesting. So were the ads/links visible at all on the site if you visited it from Google?
It seems like Google would detect and ignore the hidden divs, possibly penalizing the blog, because hidden text is a pretty old trick.
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Hi Kristi,
It is my fourth visit at this article. I like video of Pumpkin male flower. Its very beautiful and fantastic. All videos are very good but I like this most.
i really liked Your this post i got some really good solotuions from this,
First i got my amswer for why am not getting commentors, second is getting a good theme from that list and some cutomization
I am still coming back here, I am going to fix my weekly posts and learn from you
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I look forward to your Fetching Friday every week, always packed with excellent information and these Timelapses are amazing.
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