Monthly Archives: July 2009

Top Gear Extreme Driving by Ken Block

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If you ever wondered what the world’s top rally drivers do fun, wonder no more as all will be revealed in this follow up on a previous post that highlighted the mad driving skills of Ken Block in the DC Shoes Gymkana 2 Informercial which, by the way is how all infomercials should be made.

This high-octane joyride features Top Gear’s Captain Slow (James May) riding shotgun with Ken Block in his tricked out Subaru Impreza WRX STI as he rips up an airport that’s laid out as an obstacle course. The clip features great camewrawork and sublime driving prowess, but really gets going when MX Champion Ricky Carmichael joins in and races Ken through the airfield – it’s insane!



Nice work Ken! Oh, and to you James May, kudos on keeping down your lunch mate.

I am definitely going to be posting more of these as and when time allows, so stay tuned.

WP Quote Tweets Plugin

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Have you ever wanted to embed specific twitter quotes in your blog posts?

With the new WP Quote Tweets plugin by Tanin Ehrami you can! The WordPress WP Quote Tweets Plugin by Tanin Ehrami makes it possible to embed specific twitter status updates in your WordPress blog via shortcodes. Like this:

2009 Knysna Oyster Festival opens tonight! See you in Knysna...www.oysterfestival.co.za On 7:57 AM Jul 1st 2009 from web

Nice, huh?

The official line from the plugin author is:

Allows authors to quote Twitter updates in posts or pages using a simple shortcode. {quotetweet tweetid=123456789}. The tweetid can be found in the URL of the tweet that is to be quoted.

Why would you embed Tweets in your blog posts?

Embedding specific Twitter quotes in your blog posts could be a great way to socialize content and really integrate it with the social web. Right off the top of my head I can think of a few uses, some of which I hope to highlight in successive blog posts.

The WP Quote Tweets plugin is available for download at WP Codex or you can Visit the plugin site.

Update: The new version of the WP Quote Tweets plugin and it now supports templates. PLease visit the plugin site for more info.

I’ll share another cool Twitter plugin for WordPress with you soon, it’s something called TweetSuite by Dan Zarrella and it puts major foot to ass in the WordPress Twitter plugins department.

Stay Tuned.