Blogging

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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How To Explain Blogging To Granny

Most people who run a blog have probably had the experience of trying to explain the whole idea of blogging to somebody who simply doesn’t understand. I have been there. MANY times.
I tried to explain not too long ago about converting PC Mechanic over to the blog format. It was understood what I was doing [...]

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Is The Media Bad For Mankind? Why Blogs Matter

There I was. Watching the news one morning while having some breakfast. Fox News, to be exact. Does it matter what network? No, because they’re all the same. Constant bad news. A barrage. I’m left thinking: Why the hell do I watch this crap? It’s all about terrorism, how Iran might cause the next war, [...]

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Corporate World Versus Blogging

I was in Orlando on Friday attending BlogOrlando. It was an interesting event and I actually like the “unconference” format. Rather than the one way dribble of a potentially boring lecture, there was a constant back and forth. Very welcome change.
But, one of the things that came up constantly while I was there was how [...]

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Bloggers, Don’t Do What I Just Did

It’s time for me to practice what I preach. Namely, if you’re going to blog, you need to post at least once per day. Otherwise, people start to take off and don’t really care.
So, bloggers, don’t do what I just did. I haven’t posted here since last week. My posting frequency has decreased the last [...]

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Heading to BlogOrlando Today

This afternoon I am leaving for Orlando where I will be attending BlogOrlando tomorrow. This event is certainly a LOT easier to get to than Gnomedex. Instead of getting on a plane and flying 3,000 miles, I can get in my car and drive 80 miles. So, tonight I will be staying in a room [...]

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