Blogging

BlogRush - A Second Chance?

A few days ago, I ripped into BlogRush. I wasn’t alone. Darren Rowse at ProBlogger reported a very low click-through rate. Mashable asked the question on whether it was a traffic generator or a pyramid scheme. The general consensus was that the click-through rate sucked. So after running the widget for a couple days on [...]

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BlogRush or BlogBust - A Pyramid Scheme?

I made a quick mention of Blogrush a few days ago and have withheld major comment on it - until now. Leave it to John Reese to use his savvy marketing to create such a buzz about this product that bloggers have RUSHed to it in droves. I actually find the name ironic because it [...]

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Allowing HTML in Wordpress Profile Descriptions

This is a short, technical post on how to solve a problem with Wordpress. I realize it will only apply to some, but it is the answer to those who need it.
The problem is that the profile field for authors in Wordpress is very limiting, by default. It strips all HTML out of the field, [...]

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Battle of the Bloggers, Childish as Hell

One of the talks given at Gnomedex was that of Jason Calacanis. He came to talk about the pollution on the internet, i.e. spam. All of us know about this stuff. It includes email spam and, more pertinent to Jason’s point, search engine spam. His point? That so many businesses are out there practicing SEO [...]

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Twitter a BlowHard Platform?

When I was at Gnomedex, people were sending out “tweets” all the time on Twitter. I found it to be really ironic, actually, considering that my conversations with people usually gravitate to the fact that Twitter is rather useless. But, since bloggers are usually first in line to try the latest [...]

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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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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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TubeMogul Offering Video Posting to Multiple Sites

Anybody in the online video arena probably posts to multiple video websites. Or tries to. The problem is that it is usually a pretty arduous affair to get this done. You have to have profiles on each video site and then individually post to each one.
To get the most bang out of your online videos, [...]

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Wordpress and Curing High Server Load

So far, my recent conversion of PC Mechanic to Wordpress has been relatively trouble free. Of course, that is a matter of context. Switching publishing platforms on a site as large as PCMech isn’t exactly cake. It doesn’t turn on a dime. So, relatively speaking, it has been relatively pain free. However…
One of the things [...]

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