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30Threads.com Launches at Raleigh Blogger Bash Last Night
Last night at Edge Office 30Threads.com launched in beta mode in front of 50 or so local blogger’s. The “Blogger Bash” had an excellent turn out, good food, and free swag. Wayne Sutton and Ginny Skal did a great job organizing the event. The sponsors were fantastic, and the press seem to be flowing well [...]
This is Why I Will Not Be Adding BlogRush to Code and Coffee…
There has been a lot of press lately around the new BlogRush service, which is by no means a new idea. It basically is your typical social networking pyramid scheme service. You have a little widget that you put in your website’s sidebar, that syndicates stories from other blogs in your related category. The more [...]
Tips For Updating WordPress
WordPress has made it fairly simple to update to a new version, but there are some little quirks that come along with it. Here are a couple of tips I have implemented over the years for a smooth upgrade path.
Your Do Not Need To Be The First:
Unless you are doing a review or [...]
Microsoft vs. Google Apps Round One
To bring you up to speed if you have not been following: Yesterday in a total PR move Microsoft publicly released a series of questions about Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE). Today Google has not officially responded, but it has made it’s way onto several Google related blogs. I agree with what most are saying, [...]
Internet Pet Peeves
Recently I have realized that there my pet peeves relating with the Internet have been popping up more and more. My list consists of:
Taking longer than a minute to unsubscribe from a newsletter. Do not tell me it takes 7-10 days to remove my contact information from a list!
Making me enter personal information before downloading [...]
Bloglines Beta Redesign
Earlier this week, Bloglines released a beta to its popular web based RSS reader. Bloglines has had the same look and feel now going on two years, so it is really good to see something finally come from the company. I have been a long time user of Google Reader, which I came to from [...]
I Have 6 Pownce Invites for My Readers
So I have been using Pownce lately, the new IM like service with the driving force of Kevin Rose from Digg fame. A little birdie sent me an email this morning letting me know that I have 6 invites to give out. So what better way to give back to my readers than give them [...]
How To: Setup FeedBurner’s MyBrand Service
With Google’s recent purchase of FeedBurner all pay services from FeedBurner are now free. One of those services is FeedBurner MyBrand, a great service that allows you to complete mask FeedBurner by redirecting a domain or subdomain to your feeds on FeedBurner.
One thing I noticed off the bat with this service, is MyBrand works for [...]
WordPress Plug-in of The Day: Ultimate GA
If you use Google Analytics, you should take advantage of it to the fullest potential. With Wordpress a great plug-in called Ultimate GA. Ultimate GA makes it easy to do work with Google Analytics, it automatically adds the necessary code to the bottom of your template in the footer. My favorite feature is the ability [...]
Google Makes FeedBurner Free
You have to love Google…. with the recent acquisition of FeedBurner Google has now opened up the pay services to all for free. Before, FeedBurner Pro and FeedBurner MyBrand were both pay services, but Google has made them free.
If you have a FeedBurner account go in and enable pro stats. You can also get up [...]
