Archive for August, 2007

Gnomedex 2007: Was It Worth It?

I have been back from Gnomedex in Seattle for a couple days now. Getting back to the normal schedule and playing a little catch-up. I still have a lot of stuff to go over, but I thought I would provide a little analysis of Gnomedex. Call it my little bit of feedback [...]

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The Art of Evangelism - Guy Kawasaki at Gnomedex

Guy Kawasaki is the original tech evangelist online. He came to Gnomedex and did a great talk. Guy is a fantastic speaker. He knows what he’s talking about, and he communicates in a clear and humorous way. He had the crowd in stitches several times. The topic of his talk? The [...]

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Robert Steele – Open Source Answer to Everything?

Robert Steele was the keynote speech to kick off the first day of Gnomedex. He made a very interesting speech, although it was a lot more political than I was expecting. Essentially, he is a big believer in open everything, and he addressed a lot of our political problems to make [...]

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Gnomedex - HP’s Party

I am freshly back from the pre-registration party at Gnomedex 2007, sponsored by Hewlett Packard. That means I spent some time talking to the reps from HP. The guy who is (I believe he said) the head of the design team for their notebook PCs. Interesting conversation. He was showing us their new tablet form [...]

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In Seattle for Gnomedex and a Little Tired

Just a quickie post. I have arrived in Seattle and I am in my room at the Grand Hyatt paying $9.99 for 24/hours of internet access. Yeah, they kinda rape you on the net access. I don’t know why people can’t just give free wi-fi. Even sitting at Atlanta airport today….tried to check my email, [...]

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Getting Tickets for Tradeshows Through Flight Miles

Since I am traveling this week, something came to mind. Actually, it came to mind some time ago but I thought to talk about it here today. And that is the use of flight miles to make attending tradeshows and conferences more affordable.
I am traveling to Seattle this week, and I had to pay for [...]

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Digg Effect - In Living Color

A few days ago, I posted an article saying that I got “Dugg”, meaning I got an article onto Digg.com and it sent me a big traffic spike. This was for an article called “Can Linux Replace Windows?” published over on PC Mechanic. I thought I would share with you the stats from the Digg [...]

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CrazyEgg - Visualize Your Visitors, Big Bro Style

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When we are setting up our websites, it is important to take into account eye path. The human eye is naturally drawn to certain things. People also tend to shift their eyes to certain things on a page. By knowing where their attention goes, you know where on your site to place elements [...]

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The Digg Effect

I have written in the past about how to use StumbleUpon to promote. Shortly after I wrote that article, I got over 10,000 page views to one of my articles on PC Mechanic in one day. Just to one article. Since then, I have hit a few other little “sweet spots” with StumbleUpon and gotten [...]

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Open Source and Selecting a CMS

Web publishing is an interesting business. The content itself is one thing, but the software you use to publish is another thing altogether. At the basic level, you have those who are still using HTML editors and FTP to publish pages to their site. All I can say is “Ouch!”. I pity you. Then, there [...]

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