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Alexa's Irrelevance
Matt is complaining about Alexa turning off their API, for all intents and purposes, and turning itself into a walled garden. My question is does it really matter? Does Alexa really matter? I love going to industry events and listening to PR people jibjab about Alexa rankings and using it as a metric of popularity…
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I Really Screwed Up
I really screwed up and before you all get mad at me, please accept my apologies. I just did the unthinkable, and something I have been angry at others for doing – I mass invited my entire Gmail address book to Facebook. Great, if you want to join and mark me as a friend, then…
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Guesting on the WordPress Podcast
I was privileged and honored to be asked to be on the WordPress Podcast Episode #23 with Charles Stricklin and David Peralty, which is online now. It was a long show and we talked about WordPress 2.2 future features, plugins, Google Summer of Code folks and of course, a nice little argument at the end…
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Technosailor Version 7 Hits the Street
I’m really, really happy right now because we’re begininning the three year anniversary celebration a little early here. Back in March, I started to discuss the possibility of a professional theme with the fantabulous Lisa Sabin. I gave her some of my ideas and in essence let her go to town creating something suitably professional…
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Business Plan Series: Part 4 – Products and Services
Last time we discussed what you should put in the company overview section and the different formats it may take depending on the stage of your company. In this part, Part 4, we will get at the heart of your company – its products and services. This section covers what you provide to customers and…
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WordPress Plugin: Embargo Press Release
I just got done hacking together a quick plugin that will allow you to generate an Embargo Notated version of an entry in the form of a Word Document. While this plugin won’t be for everyone, it is particularly effective for bloggers who “scoop” stories or who, perhaps, have product announcements.
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Everything I needed to Know About Politics I Learned from Facebook
Recently, I recieved an email that came as a bit of a surprise to me. Well known political blogger James Joyner from Outside the Beltway emailed me and asked if I would mind guest blogging at OTB while he attended an event in Los Angeles. I’m pretty happy about that considering James and I had…
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The Job that Blogging Built
The Boston Globe has an article this morning called Blogging for Dollars. It is interesting, if rehashed (we’ve all read articles from mainstream media sources that look at blogging as if it is ‘news’ and how some people, wait for it… actually make money from blogging). The article, written by Carolyn Johnson, a staff writer…
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Alex King on Sports Show This Week
Heads up to all you crossover WP geeks/sports fans. Tomorrow, I’ll be recording a podcast at Suicide Fan with Alex King of WordPress consulting fame. He has created several plugins as well as the RSS aggregator Feedlounge. Tomorrow will be sort of like a vacation for Alex, I would think. The chance to participate in…
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Squid Proxying and its Effect on b5media
I love not being the king hippo of tech at b5media. Slowly I’ve been able to build a team of well-qualified people and Sean Walberg is one of them. Incidentally, we’re going to hit the community real hard with some new faces in tech that I’m sure will generate some buzz soon – but that’s…