Thripp.com is a new WordPress MU-powered social network focused on blogging, with the goal of harnessing technology to work with you—to enable your creativity by empowering your voice, while backing you with a community of supporters so you never have to go it alone. I just launched this on 2008 May 24, so we have a long road ahead. Join if you want to build a community that trusts it’s citizens.

Right now, the community is mostly me. I read everything posted and am active at my own Thripp.com blog, so you can count on the site …

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I’ve put into place the final list of reserved names for Thripp.com. These are the names you cannot register as the part before “.thripp.com”. All these names are also reserved at DaytonaState.org.

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beta.thripp.com: Reserved for beta testing.

browse.thripp.com, news.thripp.com, today.thripp.com: Reserved for a community zeitgeist.

chat.thripp.com: Reserved for possible chatrooms.

email.thripp.com, mail.thripp.com: In use for Thripp.com email accounts (let me know if you want …

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I’ve created a WordPress plugin called Tweet This, which lets your readers share any of your posts on Twitter by clicking an icon that looks like a bird. It’s active on all Thripp.com and DaytonaState.org blogs! Try it out with the buttons here.

Check out the Thripp.com and DaytonaState.org registration pages. Signing up for a new blog just got easier: you can set your password right from the page:

Before, you’d be emailed a random password, but that isn’t convenient. With this solution we have the best of both worlds: you can leave the fields blank to get a random password by email, or you can fill them in to choose your password right away, and it will still be emailed to you for your records.

Enjoy!

I’m delighted to announce the addition of DaytonaState.org as the complement to Thripp.com! Thripp.com will now be called the Thripp.com network wherever possible, which is inclusive of the new site.

I’d been blogging at Daytona State College News (DaytonaState.org) for a while about the school, but now you can actually blog over there just like Thripp.com; you can be You.DaytonaState.org. Sign up here: daytonastate.org/wp-signup.php.

DaytonaState.org is the only online community dedicated to Daytona State College. If you’re a student, faculty member, or just love the college, join today! Your account is for life. I’ll be reading everything posted …

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If you’re like me (I hope not), you have three Thripp.com blogs: The Thripp.com Development Blog (this one), Brilliant Photography, and Daytona State College News. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a way to feature content from one blog on another?

That’s just the feature I’ve added today, thanks to the Ada A Blog Recent Posts Widget plugin. You can add up to two other Thripp.com blogs to your sidebar under Design > Widgets, with the widgets, Thripp.com Blog and Thripp.com Blog 2. Here’s an example of mine, with my settings:

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I spent the last six hours working on a redesign for Thripp.com. While I normally deal with programming, this time it was all CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Check this out; the boring old design:

And the bold new vision:

What do you think? I like it a lot. The new header and borders solidify olive green as the Thripp.com color, and the borders are pleasing to the eye for containing the content. The sidebar’s text isn’t so squished, links are nice and bold there, visited links go brighter green, the header is white on dark olive-green, …

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I just made a decision: it’s Thripp.com now, not thripp.com. I like the capitalized address better. Never did when it was richardxthripp.com, but it seems right now.

Enjoy the new address! Let me know if you spot pages that have the lowercase version.

I’ve moved the last person to thripp.com: my father. He was at richardthripp.com, but his new home on the web is richardthripp.thripp.com, and his old site redirects. His blog is called Books by Richard Thripp, featuring hundreds of pages of his crazy writing. You can even buy his book, Along the Far Climb Down, for $1, right through the site (it goes to PayPal). I don’t have a framework so that just anyone can sell anything, but it may be something for me to work on later.

Along with the merger of photos.thripp.com into the thripp.com network, this …

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2008-07-30 Update: this feature has been upgraded and x.thripp.com is now the shorter th8.us. Read here for more info.

Take a look at the bottom of any thripp.com post, and you’re going to see something different:

I’ve created an elegant URL shortening service called x.thripp.com, and for every post on thripp.com, a URL is automatically generated. So you can just right-click, click Copy, and then paste a mini version of the post’s URL to Twitter, or in an email, or anywhere else. Not that thripp.com URLs are long, but they use your post’s title by default, …

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