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Newest update: 16MAY12

If this is your first time to M3, please pull up a rocker and grab a cuppa. You will find something to read in the Coffee Shoppe, some of the best of the blogosphere in The Green Room and Alumni Club, all of the legal and technical terms of service in The Office.

To those who are returning, welcome back! My many apologies for the power outage, lost luggage and complete lack of Dramamine during the move. I am so glad you have made it! Scroll down to see updates!

Subscriptions

Debate continues as to how many people lost their WordPress subscriptions during the move. If you are one who did, Since everyone lost their subscriptions in the move, please hit the subscribe button in the left sidebar. Find out why you should!

• Although WordPress users can click the overhead follow button, M3 will never appear on your Read Blogs screen nor will posts be delivered via email. Only the subscribe button will deliver subscription email. 
• Clicking the subscribe button will get you one email per day (at the most), delivered approximately 2000 EST (GMT -5). It will be a digest of all posts from M3 for the preceding 24 hours.
• Load the RSS feed into your reader.

Comments

Beginning 10MAR12, everyone will be required to enter an email address to comment. The only reason: Adding your details is the only way for Gravatar to add your information. Here are some email facts:

• M3 will never sell, rent, share or give away your name or email address.
• M3 emails via the subscription distribution services.
• Without adding your email and a screen name, Gravatar can only see your IP address. You will get a randomly generated alien bug, the name anonymous and a response which has nothing whatsoever to do with you.
• It is the biggest weapon M3 owns against the spam bots, which made the move without incident…go figure.

Once you input your information the first time, you only have to click in the boxes for a pull down to show what you input the last time. Those of you who forget your screen name now have a crib sheet!

If you come here via outside link, at the top of the comment box is a small WordPress icon. When you click it, you can fill in all your vitals or press the Connect with Twitter button…I have added for your convenience.

Registration & Liking

Using the Facebook login button in the left sidebar will keep you from having to log in for comments. The directions are listed on the registration page. Clicking the Facebook Like button at the top of any post will open a dialog box (just like the +1 box) so you can share a link on your wall. The send button allows you to send a link via Facebook email to someone on your friend’s list without posting to your wall.

Cardboard Kingdom

M3 is covered in boxes. I am unloading them as quickly as possible. During the interim, there may be some items which shift about until I settle on precisely how I want to rearrange the furniture.

There was one large box to arrive with the movers. It contains a Facebook page and a Google+ page. Some joker wrote on the outside of the box: Some assembly required. Believe me when I tell you, that is a lie. There will likely be a post born of both adventures.

UPDATES!

16MAY12: The A to Z Challenge is over. Find the wrap up post Restrospect, along with links to all 26 challenge posts on the A to Z page. There is a new button on the blog hop which will track the blogs you visit. Check it out. Very cool.

10MAY12: Have you noticed the orange DMCA buttons? DMCA is my new copyright protection service. I take my work very seriously. You have all seen the no re-blogging warnings on posts and in the footer of every page. Some people still need a radio button to get with the program.

07MAY12: There has been a tick box added to comments. As much fun as the spambot honorable mention is to Friday Follies, getting over 250 spams per day is really tiring. No worries…your comment will not be lost when you forget to check it.

25APR12: The Ask Momma page got a face lift. Want to shoot Red an email? Fill out the form. Easier than ever to get your questions asked and answered!

17APR12: Ever wonder why I ask you to subscribe? Now, you get the top seven reasons why you should be one of the M3 Readers! Already an M3 Reader? Pass the page on to your friends. Let them know your favorite reasons. Does #7 apply to you? Send me a link to your mention of M3 and see your testimonial spotlighted!

04APR12: The subscription problem resulted from an update to the plugin. With any luck, it is now fixed. By now, you have seen the A to Z Challenge posts. If you are looking for the blog hop, it is on the A to Z Challenge tab under the menu bar, and here.

31MAR12: After some constructive criticism, the comment layout has changed in an effort to shorten pages and ease the comment process. Feedback is welcomed on the new changes.

27MAR12: I have implemented a new loader. If you are in North America, the middle east, south Africa, southern South America or eastern Europe (with some exceptions), you should see significantly faster load times. Most of your load times have been cut to less than one second.

If you are in Germany, western Europe, southeast Asia, northern Africa or the United Kingdom, I am working as fast as I can. I have gotten your load time down by as many as eight seconds in the slowest areas, but will be trying to get you to one second to be in line with your counterparts on this side of the pond.

26MAR12: Due to loading time lags and too many pop-outs, the sharing buttons have been rearranged. To share via:

• Facebook: Choose the like button at the top of the post to send to your home page, along with the note of your choice.
• Twitter: Button at the very bottom of the post.
• LinkedIn: Between the stars and the “Love” button. Opens a pop-up to add to your updates.
• Google+: Between the stars and the “Love” button. Hover your mouse over the button for a pop-out after you click (+1) to share to your stream.

Bear with me as I find a suitable way to replace the StumbleUpon button. It is the platform with the least support for WordPress powered blogs. If you know of a plug in which would make my quest come to an end, please, please, please do share!

21MAR12: After a monster glitch compliments of a terrible plugin, the Subscribe to Comments button has changed. Now, it will only email you if someone comments on your comment. I hope you like the reduction in email.

20MAR12: Commenters now have the choice to add a link to one of their last ten blog posts compliments of the Comment Luv button. Let other M3 Readers know what you have been up to by linking to your latest post!

19MAR12: Some M3 readers are still working on an outdated version of the RSS feed. There were conflicts between the way the feed was generated and M3. While the majority of the links have been fixed, some are still floating around. If you run into a Whoops! page, please do email so it can be fixed!

16MAR12: Once you register, look for your name in the top right corner of your screen. Set up your profile to include a display name. If not, your email address will default as your display name.

15MAR12: If you find yourself on the wrong page after you log in with Facebook, simply hit the back button to get back to where you were without every going anywhere! Your log in information will be correctly stored, and you will see the Welcome Back sign where the log in button was!

14MAR12: M3 is now officially on Twitter. The app is working well. When you click the Twitter tweetmeme at the end of a post, you will see the @TheM3Blog in the via. If you are on Twitter, grab the follow button! My personal updates are no longer in the right sidebar, but the ones from M3 are!

13MAR12: I have unpacked a strange little box which held a “Love!” button. It is not the functionality I had hoped, as it will not tell me who loves anything because you do not have to be logged in to use it. I am still on the hunt for a better alternative, but for now, this will need to do. The new WP update made a lot of plugins cease functioning. If you know of one, let me know!

Enjoy!

Scroll around and enjoy the scenery, the camaraderie and the new playground. Feel free to comment on any post, regardless of original press date. If you find something the movers broke, feel free to email me or stop by the test page to leave me a note. See you in the comments.

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This is Red, your captain speaking. I have turned off the No Smoking sign. You are free to move about the cabin.