Blogging
Why A-List Bloggers Are Like Cats
Think about the metaphor.
I credit Jeremiah Owyang for Twittering this last week and giving me a good laugh. Enjoyed meeting you in Tampa, dude.
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The FriendFeed Orgasm And Why It Is Off The Mark
I am a happy user of Twitter. Like a lot of people, it took me some time to realize the value of Twitter. My initial reaction was somewhere between “This is stupid as hell” and “It’s useless”. Today, however, I have been using Twitter for a little while. I do use it to network with [...]
How Hard Do Bloggers Work?
I had an interesting (and frustrating) conversation (aka argument) with my wife last night. To anybody with kids, this will probably sound all too familiar.
My wife is a stay-at-home mom and that means she is pretty much with our 4 month old daughter all the time. This is a necessary and downright invaluable job. The [...]
Experiment: Merging a Store With a Blog
Yesterday, I did some research into some business development strategies. One of the things that crossed my radar was the idea of merging an online store with a blog. My situation is this…
PCMech gets a lot of traffic. The online store, however, is linked in the top menu but is otherwise a completely separate system. [...]
Big Blogger Mistake You Shouldn’t Repeat
Yesterday, I published a fairly technical article yesterday over at PCMech. It was a post about DirectX 11 and what’s coming in it. It was a guest post by a guy named Nathan (I’ll just leave it at first name). Being as busy as I am, I gave the article a quick scan, made a [...]
Tampa Bay Blogger Dinner
I have privately griped to Rich (my video guy) how most of the tech conferences seem to happen on the west coast. Being down here in Tampa, Florida sometimes feels a little alienated.
That is starting to change, and I intend to play my role in changing it as well. Just a small indicator of this [...]
Wordpress Plug-In For Getting RickRolled
I’ve seen it all.
This morning, I logged into Wordpress. I have the newest plug-in listed there, from Wordpress.com. This is what I see:
OK, so technically, this might not be a TRUE rick-roll. But, it sure does graffitti up the admin panel. Here is the link to the plug-in.
Shocking. Funny. Lame. At the same time, I [...]
Why PCMech Was Sluggish Yesterday
Some may have noticed that PCMech was slower to respond yesterday than usual. Here’s why:
That is what they call, in technical terms, a big-ass traffic spike. In other terminology, it was a Digg Effect from our article Why Use Linux? getting onto the homepage of Digg and basically coming in as the #8 most [...]
Open Suggestion to Chris Pirillo on Gnomedex 8.0
It looks like Chris Pirillo is starting to organize Gnomedex 8.0 in Seattle in August this year. I got an email from him yesterday where he is giving people who have attended in the past the chance to sign up early.
But, the question I have is this: should I even go?
I went to Gnomedex last [...]
Wordpress Makes a Twitter Clone
Automattic, the company behind Wordpress, has re-made Wordpress to work as a Twitter clone. Well, its not exactly a clone, but it works in a similar way.
It’s called Prologue, and it comes in the form of a Wordpress theme. Basically, it takes Wordpress down to bare minimum in terms of outward appearance, but provides a [...]
