Dear Readers,

Below is an index of all the blog articles I've posted in the O'Reilly diyINcite MySpace Blog, which can be viewed at http://blog.myspace.com/oreillymedia. Clicking on the blog post title or the "read more..." link will bring you to that specific post.

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Kevin / O'Reilly diyINcite

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O'Reilly diyINcite MySpace blog articles:

"Mutating MySpace Navigation Bar Attacks Wreak Havoc" - In the past few days a new, particularly malicious, and possibly mutating, attack has been active on MySpace. This was first brought to my attention on Friday (December 1) by my MySpace friend Lady of Avalon, who noticed that the area near the MySpace navigation bar at the top of her profile page looked different... =>read more...

"Digital Camera Basics, Part 1" - In the past few years I've bought four digital cameras (three as gifts). My method for selecting the cameras was typically to walk into a store, look at the cameras, then make my best guess and buy the camera. There's got to be a better way! ... =>read more...

"Help wanted: gifts for geeks" - I've started a MySpace group called Gifts for Geeks. If you're looking for ideas for gifts for your "geeky" friends... =>read more...

"Post pictures from your camera to your MySpace blog" - MySpace member Rachel asked me: "How can I post pictures from my camera to my blog?" ... =>read more...

"Make an oval-shaped image for the Web using Photoshop" - Rectangular images are fine in most situations, but in some cases it would be better if you could create a picture that was in the shape of an oval... =>read more...

"Using blog comments to help more people find you on MySpace" - In reading one of my favorite blogs, I came across the post How to Increase Your Name's Rank in Search Engines. This article has information that is relevant for MySpace musicians and others who would like to bring more people... =>read more...

"Ross Levinsohn talks about MySpace at the Web 2.0 Summit" - I attended the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this past week. One of the main speakers was Ross Levinsohn, the president of News Corporation's Fox Interactive Media (which means he's in charge of MySpace.com)... =>read more...

"Four image editing applications" - Images play a major role in communication and interaction between people on MySpace. People post images on their MySpace profiles, in comments, emails, group posts, blog posts... =>read more...

"Age breakdown of MySpace accounts" - Recently, some articles I've seen in newspapers have implied that the average MySpace user is actually in their mid-30s. But this doesn't jive at all with a study of MySpace accounts I did just a few months ago... =>read more...

"Hack Pack augmentation for Mac OS X iTunes users" - Eston Bond has come out with a new addition to his MySpace Hack Pack, which I wrote about in several blog posts starting with my October 7 post "MySpace Hack Pack div overlay provides profile customization freedom". So, what's Eston up to now?... =>read more...

"How MySpace exposes your blog to the Universe (using RSS)" - I was talking to a friend yesterday about how the MySpace blog works, and we ended up discussing how it is that blog aggregators like Technorati.com access MySpace blogs and incorporate the posts into their databases. Subsequently, in poking around my own MySpace blog, I noticed the "rss" link at the top of the "view blog" page... =>read more...

"Using your MySpace blog for added visibility" - The MySpace blog is one of the more neglected features of what MySpace offers for members who have something they'd like to show to others. For musicians, the ultimate goal on MySpace is to bring visitors to their profile page... =>read more...

"MySpace pioneers and the Whole Earth Catalog" - I read an interesting post by Tim O'Reilly on the O'Reilly Radar site that reminded me a lot of the kind of effort and creativity many people put into their MySpace sites. Tim's post is titled "The Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog" ... =>read more...

"MySpace and AOL Instant Messenger (.. an unfortunate limitation" - I have been researching some of America Online's latest software, and I came across the AIM Presence package, which lets you post an indicator of your current AIM status on a web page. To me, this sounded like a great idea for my MySpace page... =>read more...

"What happens if MySpace profile password thieves get into your email" - MySpace co-founder Tom posted a blog a few days ago titled "bulletins that you didn't post?" This is a very good read for every MySpace user who has seen bulletins posted using their MySpace account that they did not post themselves. I happened to view Tom's blog at a very fortunate moment, right after the following comment was posted by MySpace member BelovedAbigail... =>read more...

"Question: how to bring more people to your MySpace site?" - I've had a very interesting conversation today with my new MySpace friend H.O.M.E. MG/H.N.V, who sent me an email this morning asking "how can i increase my plays on the standalone player?" ... =>read more...

"Scam bulletins sent using your MySpace account " - A growing problem on MySpace is scam bulletins that are posted by people who temporarily take over or gain access to someone else's MySpace account. Tom posted a MySpace Announcement about this last weekend, and I wrote a related blog post a few days ago... =>read more...

"Scam MySpace bulletins and your MySpace password" - In Tom's "MySpace Announcement" from last weekend, he said: "also, if bulletins are being posting under your account that you didnt post, change your password!! if you see these bulletins, it means someone phished your password and got in your account." =>read more...

"Why some things sometimes work for some MySpace users, but not for others" - Tom posted a "MySpace Announcement" this past weekend that illustrates the fact that sometimes certain pages of MySpace will work correctly for some users but not correctly for other users. Here's what Tom said... =>read more...

"O'Reilly MySpace Newsletter 2" - O'Reilly diyINcite MySpace Blog - Much of my research and writing in the past 10 days has been devoted to Eston Bond's MySpace Hack Pack software, which applies the "div overlay" method to let people who want complete freedom in customizing their MySpace profiles clear away the default MySpace screen and code their own profile from scratch... =>read more...

"O'Reilly diyINcite MySpace blog article index" - Dear Readers, Below is an index of all the blog articles I've posted in the O'Reilly diyINcite MySpace Blog... =>read more...

"Eston Bond on the future of social networking" - I ended my interview with MySpace innovator Eston Bond with an open invitation for him to look into the future and tell us what he sees in relation to social networks, technology, and society. Here's Eston's thought-provoking response... =>read more...

"MySpace Innovators: Eston Bond (Interview)" - Eston Bond is the creator of the MySpace Hack Pack that was the topic of my past few blog posts. I interviewed Eston in late August, shortly after I discovered the MySpace Dev series of posts at his hyalineskies.com blog... =>read more...

"Applying MySpace Hack Pack extensions to your div overlay" - After you've applied a div overlay covering the default MySpace profile structure, you're left with a big blank page. What should you do next? Eston Bond provides suggestions and code examples in his series of MySpace Dev posts... =>read more...

"How the MySpace Hack Pack div overlay works" - The code presented in the previous blog article (about Eston Bond's MySpace Hack Pack) overlays the default MySpace profile structure with a white canvas, to which you can apply your own HTML and CSS code to create your customized MySpace profile page. It's one thing to cut and paste some code into MySpace -- almost everyone does that at some point -- but it's much better to understand how the code works... =>read more...

"MySpace Hack Pack div overlay provides profile customization freedom" - For those of you who wish you could just wipe away the entire default MySpace profile page and replace it with your own creation, my friend Eston Bond has a solution: the MySpace Hack Pack... =>read more...

"O'Reilly MySpace Newsletter 1" - This is the first edition of the O'Reilly MySpace Newsletter. The purpose of the newsletter is to provide a summary of new blog article posts and other happenings on the O'Reilly MySpace profile. The newsletter will be issued... =>read more...


"Select hexadecimal colors for MySpace" - More than 16 Million colors are available for use in MySpace. Seventeen colors have defined names in HTML. These colors can be selected using their name. Here are the 17 named HTML colors... =>read more...

"Change the background color for a MySpace bulletin" - If you'd like your MySpace bulletin to have something other than the standard white background, there's an easy method to accomplish this using simple HTML commands... =>read more...

"Use an image as the background for a MySpace bulletin" - If you'd like to make your MySpace bulletins stand out and have more than just text on a white background, consider putting a background image into your bulletin... =>read more...

"Help label the Web's images with the ESP Game" - If you'd like to play a game that will also help make it easier to find and identify images on the Internet, you might want to check out the ESP Game... =>read more...

"Put a customizable comment box on your MySpace profile" - If you'd like to make it easier for people to post comments on your MySpace profile, consider putting a comment box right on your profile page... =>read more...

"Finding interesting repostable autumn leaves at Flickr.com" - Autumn happens to be my favorite season. I live in southern New England. The ancient maple tree in our yard is scattering its leaves all over the driveway and yard, just as the leaves on other trees in our area are changing color... =>read more...

"How to link to a specific MySpace blog post" - In a message I posted in the O'Reilly Do-It-Yourself Codes group, I included what I thought was a link to a related blog post I had made earlier. Being a thorough author and programmer, I tested the link after I posted the group message, and sure enough... =>read more...

"Making an image a clickable link to another web page" - My friend Lady of Avalon asked: "can you tell me how to establish a link from an image on my profile page to the page of the artist who created the image?" This is actually a fairly simple task... =>read more...

"Use MySpace styled headings in your profile" - The default MySpace profile includes various headings that look nice, for example... =>read more...

"Remove the View All Friends link from your MySpace profile page" - If you'd like to remove the "View All of [name]'s Friends" link at the bottom of your Top Friends display on your MySpace profile page, enter the following code at the bottom of the "About Me" section of your profile... =>read more...

"My pics are missing and replaced with red x's" - A MySpace friend visited his own profile and noticed that all of his pictures were missing, replaced with little red x's... =>read more...

"Mike Davidson's 'Hacking a More Tasteful MySpace'" - Mike Davidson, President and CEO of Newsvine.com, posted a very informative (and humorous) blog entry titled "Hacking a More Tasteful MySpace" in his blog this past spring... =>read more...

"MySpace Tools: .. provides capability to share favorite videos with your friends" - .. is a web site that hosts videos and provides code that you can insert into your MySpace profile (or other web sites). The code lists the videos you've selected and lets your friends see the videos... =>read more...

"MySpace Profile Layout: HTML Table Layers" - MySpace profile pages are arranged using six levels of HTML tables. Using Cascading Style Sheets, I specified that every table in my oreillytest MySpace profile should have a 10-pixel wide border. And, I specified a different color... =>read more...

"About the author (of the O'Reilly diyINcite MySpace site)" - My name is Kevin. I'll be writing and posting codes for your MySpace profile and beyond, and describing how the code works, on this page and in the O'Reilly Do It Yourself Codes MySpace group. First we'll start out with simple profile customization options, then... =>read more...

"'Playing with Audio Plugins' Podcast at OreillyNet.com" - O'Reilly's Digital Media Insider podcast series has released a new podcast titled Playing with Audio Plugins. This will be of interest to anyone who records their own music... =>read more...

"About O'Reilly diyINcite" - Creating this profile was the idea of some people at O'Reilly Media--hence, the URL: www.MySpace.com/oreillymedia. I have written several technology articles for the OreillyNet.com web site, and I often post comments on the Radar.Oreilly.com technology blog... =>read more...

"Add visibility for your MySpace blog with Technorati" - If you'd like your blog to be more visible on the Web, consider registering it at Technorati.com. Technorati is a "Blog Directory," a kind of search engine for blog posts... =>read more...

"Make a simple banner for MySpace or the Web using HTML" - If you know a little bit about HTML (HyperText Markup Language) you may know how to use the 'font' tag to increase or decrease the size of some text. However, sometimes you may want even greater enhancement of text, in the form of a banner... =>read more...

"What the O'Reilly Media MySpace profile is about" - So, what is this MySpace profile about? It's about helping people learn how much they can do themselves, with just a little study--fun study, I think. One of the most fun things about having your own web site... =>read more...

"technorati.com claim" - Technorati Profile =>read more...

"Thomas' MySpace Editor V4 is released" - A new version of Thomas' MySpace Editor (Version 4), one of the most popular tools for generating code that customizes MySpace profiles, is now available. In a MySpace bulletin sent out today... =>read more...

"Use an image as your MySpace profile background" - If you'd like to have an image be your MySpace profile background, read on, because in this blog entry I explain what you need to do... =>read more...

"Change your MySpace profile background color" - You can change the background color of your MySpace profile by adding a few lines of code to the 'About Me' section. Here are the steps... =>read more...