Advice
How To Handle Complainers In Your Blog Audience
My philosophy is that, with any audience, you will have a small percentage who like to complain. As your blog audience grows, it may seem as if the amount of unhappy people has increased. Over on PCMech, I sure get them. A few examples come to mind:
The person who actually bothers to email me [...]
10 Tips For Attending Tech Conferences
There are a LOT of tech conferences out there, some of which I attend. Here are some tips for you if you’re attending any:
DO IT. Seriously, if you can afford the money and time to travel to attend a tech conference I recommend you do so. Of course, this is assuming you’re in a line [...]
Mac Users: The Absolute Best Friendfeed App Is…
Like a lot of people, I dig FriendFeed. I find that it is much easier to have conversations on FriendFeed. And those conversations are based around the actual content we all produce on the Internet. Frickin’ awesome.
The FriendFeed API, of course, allows for the creation of applications that will allow you to monitor FriendFeed from [...]
Tip For Better Blog Writing
Sometimes I find that I get my best work done at a coffee shop. In my case, I hit Panera Bread for the free coffee refills and the free wifi.
Sure, I’ve got a nice home office. I’ve got the big Mac Pro in the office with three nice monitors attached. I’ve got the super fast [...]
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 [...]
Should We Honor the Sabbath?
I got an interesting email message this morning from a reader of WebbyOnline. His name is Carl and he says:
Just a quick thought - the Sabbath - a day of rest - is the most important thing that we can do for ourselves. Don’t neglect it and be true to it. You should [...]
Stop Drinking from the Outlook Food Bowl
With the recent popularity of the book 4 Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferris, there has been some talk about various entreprenuers re-thinking the way they structure their business lives. One of the overriding points of the book is outsourcing and the power of hiring virtual assistants. But, another point of [...]
Using Camtasia to Quit My Job
Camtasia is a very popular video screen recording program created by TechSmith. Its probably the best screen recording application for Windows - at least that I know of. We here at PC Media make routine use of it for our video tutorials. The simplicity of it is that you start up the recorder, start recording, [...]
Terrorism - How Internet Businesses Should Plan
When I’m working, I like to listen to podcasts and talk radio. Well, talk radio has a lot of current events being discussed, and one of the most current events today is the war on terror. Now this subject very easily gets into the realm of politics, which I have no interest in discussing on [...]
Time to Light the Fire Under my Ass
Well, I am back in the States now, fresh off the honeymoon. Italy was fantastic, but as with any longer trip, I’m always ready to get back to work when its over. With the wedding and honeymoon, I haven’t really had uninterrupted worktime for a few weeks now and there is so much to do. [...]
