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Word Count Stats v0.41

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Word Count Stats is a very simple plugin for your blog. Its function is simply to count the total number of words posted in your blog. That’s it. Nothing fancy. The program installs and produces an extra tab on the ‘dashboard’ area. Once installed, you need to create a new post BEFORE you look at the stats it produces. (I forgot this, and it produced a bunch of errors!). The stats for my blog look something like this:

+ 40,751 total published words from 216 posts
+ 2,499 total unpublished words from 40 posts
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= 43,250 total all words from 256 posts
= 168 average words per post
49 (19.1406%) posts contain 300+ words
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and it produces stats per month like this:

200608 – 13 posts 3,456 words
200611 – 9 posts 1,486 words
200609 – 29 posts 5,524 words
200610 – 2 posts 157 words
200612 – 60 posts 10,563 words
200701 – 74 posts 14,069 words
200702 – 28 posts 5,469 words
200703 – 1 posts 27 words

216 total published posts
40,751 total published words

so, for those of you who want to know how many words you have typed at the keyboard of your own blog, this is the ideal plugin! The current version is noted here:

v0.41 released Feb 5, 2007 5:46pm PST: TD Word Count v0.41 [.zip].

Just one suggestion for the developer: is there any way to make the stats viewable by visitors to our blogs? Oh, and a big thank you. It’s a great plugin.

Useful Tools: Google Docs Can Publish to Your Blog!

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For those of you who use Google Docs and Spreadsheets, you might be interested to know you can post directly to your blog from within the ‘Publish’ tab. You need to set up your blog within the Publish area, then you can do it.

In fact, I just wrote this post in this way. I’m still experimenting with this feature. Apparently, you can even tag it with the correct category. It could be very useful when publishing longer articles and stuff that needs more formatting like tables, html, etc.

Ok. Here goes, I’m about to save it with a name: then hit publish. You can try it, too.

Two Caveats: The title didn’t appear, nor was it put in the correct category! I guess there’s some work to do on this feature! But still. It works well, and you can simply go back to your blog, and add these easily.

Mobile Phone + Internet + Organizer = InvestorBlogger?

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Since developing my blogs, journal, and other websites, recently I have been finding out how dependent I am on computers (both desktop and mobile) to keep me connected to the Internet. Now I do have good ADSL connections at home and work, but there are times when I want to run away from the environment, and do some work. Yes, mobile pcs do cut some of the links, but sometimes, just sometimes, I need something smaller.

Given the price of a Dopod, the delay in getting an iPhone, and the poor connectivity via WAP, I was unsure if I could really need an expensive phone on poor connectivity. With WiFly and local WiMax becoming a reality, though, phones are becoming more flexible in HOW they connect, I am starting to look around for a small phone with multi-function capability.

I checked around the pages at Wirefly to see what cell phones were available that could meet the demands of an on-the-go investor+blogger. These two phones were what I found. You can click for more information.

BlackBerry Pearl w/ myFaves

The BlackBerry Pearl is certainly high on my list for its net connectivity, emailing, and browsing. In addition, it allows people to use it in many regions of the world, not just the typical tri-band regions of old.

Wirefly also offers the Nokia E62 which performs similarly to the Blackberry but has a

number of different features, including the most obvious keyboard design. For someone on the go, the attachment viewing features for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, (with limited Editor and Zip support) would be invaluable, when combined with the Qwerty Keyboard. That would win hands down over the Blackberry.

These two phones are quite different but would make a good complement to the blogger on the go! Wirefly can provide additional cell phone plans for each of the major carriers in the U.S., so just enter your zip code to see what plans are available in your area. Now if only someone would buy me one for Chinese New Year! PLEASE!

Post sponsored by Wirefly.com.