Movable Type 4.2 Is one of the 'most significant and important releases in Movable Type's history' (1)
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The folks over at SixApart have recently announced what might be some of the biggest changes in Movable Type's history. It certainly is making noise throughout the blogosphere. This release marks a significant change to SixApart’s license agreement as well. This is another attempt to persuade WordPress users to make the switch, but the features are so good that even I am considering installing a new blog on Movable Type. The gap between the CMSs ...
Yahoo: Critical Times for a Great Company (3)
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If you want to talk about a company with problems, Yahoo! would likely come up in the conversation. The once unstoppable internet giant has quickly faded away from the spotlight, and, worse still, it has almost faded entirely from existence. With angry investors, impatient media, and one persistent Carl Icahn, Yahoo needs to get its act together soon if it wants to continue being independent. There are a few potential solutions to all these problems ...
FriendFeed: The Blogger's New Best Friend and Marketing Tool? (5)
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Twitter is great, don’t get me wrong, but FriendFeed is a whole new beast that has quickly established its importance to the blogosphere. My first reaction when playing around with FriendFeed was that it was a source of information overload to the extreme, and that was pretty much the case for the first few months, but after I got involved, again, and mastered the “hide” functionality, I was quickly able to view FriendFeed as a ...
OnlyJames | FriendFeed: The People Reader I Always Subconciously Desired (7)
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I just had a thought about how interesting it would be to have a feed reader that was no longer focused on individual blogs, but instead, it was focused on subscribing to individuals like journalists and bloggers—the people who create the content. This would put more emphasis on the content creators, and that, in my opinion, is a great thing. But it then dawned on me that this was such a ridiculous idea! FriendFeed, my ...
Picking A Good Title For Your Great New Blog | Performancing.com (2)
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Apparently a lot of people are interested in starting a new blog because “blog titles” and “blog names” are two of the most popular search queries that lead to Performancing. I previously wrote about creating [link to article] great blog post headlines, but you should have a good name to fall back on. However, you must realize that the name can only take you so far. Qualities of a Great Blog Title/Name Simple The first ...
Three Bloggers Who You’d Love to Sit Down and Have Dinner With (1)
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The blogosphere has brought us some amazing bloggers who have been able to captivate readership that even some magazines and newspapers would be jealous of. There are your Scobles, Arringtons, Rileys, and Chows, but even more people are getting in on the action. People who were once nobodies are now some-bodies. The question is simple: who are the three bloggers that you would want to sit down and have dinner with? My Picks Louis Grey ...
Don't Forget About Your Personal Blog! (4)
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In a time where we have Twitter, FriendFeed, Plurk, Facebook, and all kinds of services to socialize with, it is far too easy to forget about the value of a personal blog. For some of us, a personal blog might be a place to express ourselves in our free time, but for others, it is an excellent opportunity to create quite a following. However, many of us have neglected our personal blogs, some of us ...
20 Myths About Blogging That Many New Bloggers Actually Believe (31)
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Many new and upcoming bloggers have false assumptions when they come into the blogging world. It gets even worse when that blogger expects to make money (or an entire living) while blogging. It requires much work, consistency, and dedication to become a real success, but it can be done. If you are a new blogger, you might want to avoid these following assumptions. 1. You Must Write on a Daily Basis to Succeed You probably ...
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PHP Made Amazingly Easy, Efficient, and Fun With CodeIgniter (14)
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EllisLab Inc., the same group that has created ExpressionEngine, is at it again by providing people with a free and open source PHP framework called CodeIgniter. This open source PHP framework allows users to create PHP-based applications without many of the complaints I already have with PHP. The best part is that you don't really have to sacrifice anything to utilize this framework, and it has an amazing community behind it. Overview For the longest ...
Blood and Laporte Discuss Blogging Ethics: What Happened? (2)
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Earlier, Leo Laporte and Rebecca Blood (I love the name), author of The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog, discussed blogging ethics on TWiT Live. The brief discussion primarily focused on what bloggers should do when they need to change their content. Jeff Chandler recently covered part of this story when John C. Dvorak was involved—John frequents the TWiT network—and the conversation has been carried over. An Overview Note: my responses ...
Getting Organized: Categories vs. Tags, and How To Properly Utilize Them | Performancing.com (3)
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You probably use categories, tags, or both to help organize your content, regardless of how niche-focused your blog is. Without these organizational structures, your content becomes nearly impossible to manage—it will, with time, aggravate you and your readers. Many times this is simply because there was not enough emphasis on planning for the organization of content, but even if you haven't been keeping your content organized, you can change that, right now. Categories? Tags? What's ...
WordPress 2.6 To Be Released Tonight? (2)
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A few sites on the internet have been reporting that sources close to WordPress have intentions of releasing WordPress 2.6 tonight. This release would bring many improvements that have been widely asked for by the WordPress community. There are plenty new features to keep your eyes on as stated on the official WordPress website: Version/revision saves a copy of a post every time you edit it, allows you to view (not edit) each of those ...
WordPress Development Team: Fix the Horizontal Rule Issue Already! (1)
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I love WordPress. I think it is one of the best content management systems around (even though I am open to the idea of using others). But there are some ridiculous issues with the visual editor that need to be addressed, not ignored, by the development team. The issue I'm talking about today is a horizontal rule bug/issue. If you insert a horizontal rule,<hr />, into a WordPress post, it will destroy the formatting of ...
The Ultimate FriendFeed Client (9)
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In April of 2008, Twhirl’s developers had aspirations to implement FriendFeed support within the client. Now a Seesmic owned product, Twhirl is currently one of the best FriendFeed clients available today, but it is far from perfect. ...
14 Personalized Homepages Compared, Feature by Feature (1)
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We learned this week that Pageflakes is adding a social network, which seems to be the next evolution of the start page concept. Meanwhile, Facebook is looking increasingly like a startpage. We thought it was time to revisit the startpage market, and see whether the new features on each site would convince us to switch. If you’ve super-lazy, skip straight to the feature grid at the bottom of the article. Netvibes Netvibes is without question ...
