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Life After Google Reader
Seems like a false title, should have been “Life after the announcement of death of Google Reader” – whatever, Google Reader is reaching to its end now — people are quickly moving to other RSS feed readers after Google announced the death of the best feed reader service on March 13. I was using this service since 2009 and have read over 20 of thousands of articles through it. As a student, Google Reader meant a lot to me; whether it’s about reading the informative WordPress.com News or going through Terence Tao’s notes: Google Reader was everywhere. Now all the applications which were based Google Reader API, will not be functioning after 1st July, so there was a desperate need of finding a new Feed-Reader for me.
Here are the Google Reader alternatives, which I gave rigorous tries and found useful.
Progress Report of MY DIGITAL NOTEBOOK in 2011
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 53,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 20 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
GauravTiwari.org
If you are doing good, go for great! And if great - chase the best.
This is a statement which I follow the most. Time is changing rapidly for me and I am more rapidly. At MY DIGITAL NOTEBOOK —I devoted my heart and brain to mathematical and recreational writing. But, wpgaurav.wordpress.com looked ugly in the sense of cuteness of my blog. 
A custom-domain is not very important in the process of getting readers —your blogging does so, but it is very important if you are serious to your name. I love my name and that’s why I opted for my own domain than traditional *.wordpress.com URL. I was looking for an excellent domain name for my blog and what on the earth could be better than my full name? I didn’t look for gauravtiwari.com, whether that was available or not and directly went to register gauravtiwari.org. This made a sense because I treat myself as an organisation and I successfully got it registered. The process was extremely easy and effective, however I failed purchasing the domain twice. Reason —both of my cards weren’t international. I used my friend’s VISA card and finally in third attempt —I had it (well, I paid him back in cash).
Some people might think that I was inspired by declaration of WordAds on WordPress.com but that is not true. When I reached at 40000 hits, I dreamt for my domain –which will have no range–Full of recreations—full of knowledge. I don’t have more to write on this topic since I am completing my book ‘A Trip To Mathematics‘. If you are a regular reader of this blog please update you bookmarks. wpgaurav.wordpress.com is now gauravtiwari.org Thanks for your support my friends and WordPress.com guys! I love math. I love WordPress. I love you.
WordPress URL Shortening: An Interesting Consequence
Long post and page URLs can be annoying. There are times when you may want to edit WordPress slugs for long titled posts or pages, so you can share a shorter link with friends. Here’s an example: http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/derivative-of-x-squared-is-2x-or-x-where-is-the-fallacy/ (one of the most popular posts from my blog). Would you like to write these (about) hundred characters? Or would you like to use WP.ME link shortener, which for this post was http://wp.me/p14tlY-hv ? Well, second idea sounds better than first one. But you’ll never get the same satisfaction from it because blog URL http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com is not visible, and also looks odd when typed in address bar. What then? This post is on some choices you might want to try. But before we go, let me explain what slug is? 
A slug is a few words that describe a post or a page. Slugs are usually an URL friendly version of the post title (which has been automatically generated by WordPress), but a slug can be anything you like. Slugs are meant to be used with permalinks as they help describe what the content at the URL is. The post slug is the part of the URL after the date in a post’s URL. When the default post slug is created, all letters will be converted to lowercase, spaces will be exchanged with dashes, and any special characters will be removed. You can modify the post slug by clicking the Edit button next to it in visual editor. When you’re finished editing, click Save and then Update Post/Page. »via WordPress Codex
How to shorten a WordPress post or page slug with a more efficient way?
Here are some interesting ways to define a personalised, very short and share-friendly version of URL for your post.
- Eliminate the ‘time-stamp’ from the slug and
http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com/derivative-of-x-squared-is-2x-or-x-where-is-the-fallacy/
redirects to the same post at
http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/derivative-of-x-squared-is-2x-or-x-where-is-the-fallacy/
So it got a little shorter. - Want it to be even shorter? Then cut one or more characters from the URL: For example:
http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/derivative-of-x-squared-is-2x-or-x-where-is-the-fallacy/
http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/derivative-of-x-squared-is-2x-or-x-where-is/
http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com/derivative-of-x-squared-is-2x-or-x/ etc. are equivalent and redirect to the same post. - Want it be shorter still? Then eliminate everything but single word. e.g., http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com/derivative/
Looks cool, no? Yes, Just like a Page URL on WordPress.com! And it redirects to the same post as all other links above. - Is the word too long for you? Then abbreviate it to
http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com/der/ - Want it be still shorter? Try the shortest, a single letter: http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com/d/ ! Well, it does not redirect to http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/derivative-of-x-squared-is-2x-or-x-where-is-the-fallacy/
Where does it go? It goes to d’ Alembert’s Test of Convergence . Reason is specified below at point 2.
Here are some points, which follow and guide you on shortening URLs:
- Hyphens are not important when considering shortened-urls.
- Any URL of the type http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com/d redirects to a post/page which slug starts with ‘d’. If there are two posts having slugs starting with the same letter of the alphabet (here d),then it will, in alpahabetical order, redirect to that post which first word (if same then second word) comes first in English Dictionary. For example http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com/d will redirect to http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com/d-alembert/ rather than to http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com/derivative/
- If two/more posts have the same slugs and you are using an identical shortener that it might go to any of them, then that will (should) redirect to the post which was published earlier.
- Some slugs are not allowedin posts or pages on WordPress.com and they are:
- Periods(.) are not allowed in slugs.
- /activate/
- /category/
- /comments/
- /feed/
- /i/
- /next/
- /signup/
- /tag/
- /wp-admin/
- /wp-content/
- You can not shorten your post URLs /page URLs (this way) until published.
- This trick also works for self hosted WordPress.org blogs.
So, are you going to experiment with your WordPress.com Post URLs?
Disclaimer: There is no technical basis for these shortening tricks. They are soley based on experiments with WordPress.com slugs. This post was made under supervision of timethief, I am grateful to her. I would also like to say thanks to Ganesh Dhamodkar, who was the guy I tested all these with.
Feel free to comment if you are getting any problem in shortening URLs or if just want to say ‘Hi’.
Long URL for this Post: http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/wordpress-url-shortening/
Short URL for this post: http://wpgaurav.wordpress.com/wor/
Social Networks for Math Majors
Math or Mathematics is not as difficult as it is thought to be. Mathematical Patterns, Structures, Geometry and its use in everyday life make it beautiful. ‘Math majors’ term generally include Math students, Math professors and researchers or Mathematicians. Internet has always been a tonic for learners and whole internet is supposed to be a social network, in which one shares and others read, one asks & others answer. There are thousands of social networks (and growing) where you enjoy your days, share fun etc. However there are only a few social (mathematical) networks which are completely focused on math and related sciences. But these are brilliantly good enough to demonstrate the wisdom of mathematicians. I have tried to list my favorite social networking websites on mathematics. Please have a read and give feedback in form of comments
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Math.Stack Exchange
Mathematics StackExchange Website
Mathematics Stack exchange is a website dedicated to all types of mathematical discussions. You can ask questions, give answers, comment on questions and vote for it. Registration is very easy and takes seconds. Depending on your work, you are given ‘reputations’. Depending upon some special works, you are also given some privileges.
This is a free, community driven Q&A for people studying math at any level and professionals in related fields. It is a part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A websites, and it was created through the open democratic process defined at Stack Exchange Area 51. (more…)
