So here’s a funny thing. It looks like major Web 2.0 sites are quickly picking up copy cats in the fetish/BDSM communities. For kinksters, Facebook was quickly replaced by FetLife (friend me if you know me!) and now it appears that Digg has a pseudo-copy cat in the form of FetSpank. This is cool, and is proof-positive that the open nature of the Internet creates niche opportunities where content is king. I just wish we’d have picked a better prefix for our stuff than “fet,†cuz, well, ew.
That said, I figured that I might as well help this sex-2.0-specific copy catting adoption rate by writing a little plugin for WordPress-powered blogs (like mine) so that publishers can easily add a “FetSpank This!” button on their WordPress-generated content. So without further ado, I present to you the FetSpank This! WordPress Plugin.
Enjoy, and if you have any plugin-specific feedback, please leave comments on the plugin’s homepage.
by Elle
06 Oct 2008 at 02:21
Hey, that’s great! Thanks for letting me know, I’ll be sure to use your pluggin. I think sites like Fetspank and Fetlife are good ideas and we should really encourage the people that work hard on them.
by maymay
06 Oct 2008 at 02:54
Thanks Elle. I hope you find the plugin useful! I agree that these sorts of sites are good; they are a central rallying point for subcultures that would otherwise be too geographically dispersed to come together.
by Boston Boy
06 Oct 2008 at 06:12
I had a conversation at a party last night with someone about Fetlife. He hadn’t looked into it, and didn’t see the value since he felt uncomfortable about meeting someone online. Of course, my girlfriend and I wouldn’t have found or gotten to that party without Fetlife, and he seemed to be having a fine time talking to us. Well, more with her. Not the point. Despite some warts, Fetlife seems a pretty positive thing to me.
by alank
06 Oct 2008 at 07:48
Wow! Thanks for the interest from the fetspank team!
Great job, you beat me to it! Let me know if you want to distribute it from our site, with all credits towards you of course.
BTW, little update if interested, we also accept the “…&body=’this is the body of the scoop…’ if you want to allow them to send some teaser text into the body of the scoop.
by maymay
06 Oct 2008 at 11:54
@Boston Boy: That’s a great example. The fact of the matter is that building tools like this and democratizing sex information is valuable and isn’t a bad thing.
@alank: All hail the power of crowd-sourcing, eh? ;) I’m glad I could help. If there is interest to distribute it from your site, please definitely pull it down and do that. I’d very much appreciate a link with credit.
Good to know, though I’m not really sure how I could use that from the plugin’s perspective best. My philosophy on software tools is very much about not being clever so I’d rather not guess at what the teaser text should be automatically, unless I can think of a way to make that undeniably worthwhile. But hey, the plugin is GPL 3 and open source, so patches are very welcome!
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by Eileen
21 Oct 2008 at 12:41
Something has just occurred to me.
Does this mean that feta is the new kinky cheese?
by maymay
21 Oct 2008 at 13:01
@EIleen: you are sooooooo funny. :P (And probably right.)