Archive for July, 2008

When Blogging Isn’t Blogging Anymore

I had an interesting conversation last night with some pretty well known bloggers. Both bloggers are professional bloggers who make money doing it, however both are network bloggers. This means they blog for somebody else and are paid by post to do so.
What was very interesting to me was when they spoke of the [...]

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Wordpress Borks My Server? Dealing with High Server Load

I have been dealing with server issues over at PCMech for a little while now. Yesterday, I think we finally made some headway. We ended up replacing the APC PHP opcode cache with eAcellerator as well as upgraded the motherboard and processor.
Wordpress is a fantastic product, but when you add some plug-ins to it it [...]

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Bloggers: Don’t Be a Fat Ass

One of the biggest drawbacks of this job (being a professional blogger) is that you sit - A LOT. And if you’re not careful, it will catch up with you.
I’ve let it catch up to me. Hi, my name is David Risley and I am a fat ass.
OK, if you saw me in person, you [...]

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Using Ad Blockers: Is It Stealing?

We have had this debate before over on PCMech, but I’d like to lay it out here on this site as well. This website, as you can see, currently has no advertising on it. And my plan is to keep it this way. Like anybody else, I prefer to use a website with no [...]

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Risley for President - Bloggers Unite!

In my off time, I am planning out my vision for taking over the world. It looks like my efforts are paying off. Bloggers, unite!

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Am I A Geek?

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Tech Blogging - Too Crowded? Too Hateful? No, Just Changing.

Those of us who are into tech blogging probably realize by now that this is a VERY saturated field. There are a LOT of tech bloggers out there and it is hard, if not impossible, to find a unique angle to a story.
Recently, Jason Calacanis made a very public departure from blogging. Instead of posting [...]

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TweetDeck: Cool, But Not Quite

I finally got around to giving the new Twitter client TweetDeck a try. In a word: interesting.
As pictured below, the most obvious change here is multiple columns. You have one column for your normal timeline (similar to Twhirl), another for replies, another for direct messages. Makes it much easier to see what’s happening on [...]

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Bloggers for Obama: Lemmings for Something Shiny?

Let me take a moment and potentially do something mildly stupid: step my foot into politics. No, I’m not going to pull a Dave Winer on ya and go all political, don’t worry.
We’re in the election season and that means we’re seeing lots of politics online. Since I follow social media, I can [...]

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Social Media & Internet Marketing: How NOT To Make Money Online

Anybody who is looking to make money online and wants to use social media as part of your marketing strategy…pay attention.
Facebook. Myspace. Twitter. LinkedIn. These social media services are built on one thing: relationships. Now, if you were having a social gathering and somebody just ran into your room and started pitching their product, how [...]

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