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WordPress 2.1 Gotchas
I figured I’d follow up my 10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.1 with another useful post. The reality is that there were bound to be discoveries by the masses after the launch and over the past few days, this assumption has been borne out. The really tech savvy among us and those who…
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Why Do You Blog?
There’s an interesting survey available over at Why Do You Blog. Taking the survey makes you eligible to win an iPod Shuffle. Since my iPod is broke (I discovered a smashed LCD screen when I went to listen to it on the plane), I could use the Shuffle.
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10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.1
Back in December of 2005, I was filling in for Darren Rowse at ProBlogger and I wrote an entry that was very highly read and commented on. The topic was 10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.0. The occasion was the release of the much-waited for release of the current major release of WordPress…
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I Love the Bay Area
It may not come as a whole heap of a surprise but I love California. I’ve never been to Southern Cal but it strikes me as a little too non-fun for me. It’s full of upper crust people that are so full of themselves that anything less than People Magazine simply won’t do it. I…
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Podcasting Essentials: Finding Your Voice
This is a continuation of the series on Podcasting Essentials. Much like blogging, people who begin podcasting are not likely to be “good” immediately. Usually it takes some practice and, like blogging, time to find your voice. Good podcasters, like good bloggers, continually improve. One of the early challenges podcasters face is finding their voice.…
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The Baltimore Sun
It’s nice to finally get my due from the mainstream media. :-)
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Podcasting Essentials: Strength in Numbers
It’s been a few days since I first posted the first part of my series on podcasting. I wanted to continue that theme today and talk a little bit about your show format and decisions you need to make – particularly when deciding to do a show alone or with someone. At Suicide Fan, I…
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Attention Baltimore: Purple Friday Party and Podcast on Friday
I won’t rehash what I wrote over at SuicideFan. But I did want to extend the invitation to local readers who want to come out and celebrate the Ravens playoff hopes and share your reactions with the world (we will be recording). Come out and have some food, beer and fun and celebrate the Baltimore…
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How We Mass Upgrade Blogs
I’ve been getting hounded for some time about how we manage mass upgrades at b5media. It makes no sense to tackle things like you might upgrade, say 1, blog. Download. Unzip. FTP. Upgrade. It’s fast, but not when you have over 20 blogs. So I’m releasing our (slightly modified) script for public consumption. Remember, our…
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How to Handle Security Flaws
Yesterday, over at Blog Herald, the new management demonstrated the entirely wrong way of handling security flaws. (The flaw I detailed here) WordPress celebrated it’s 500,000 install last month and cheers to them. The platform is stable, fast, easy to use. It has no cumbersome plugin architecture (like Textpattern). That’s not to say that it…