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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
You could subtitle this: If Matt Cutts is going to attend, would you even bother making las vegas hotel reservations to attend PubCon?
[insert classic Bronx raspberry here]
My answer: Absolutely not!
To me that's kind of a "Duh Moment". Matt Cutts may be a decent enough guy (I honestly don't ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Some time back, in an effort to take some of the value out of comment spam and link spam, Google and then other search engines implemented rel="nofollow". Specifically they said that any link with that attribute would not be followed as their spiders crawled the net.
Now I'm beginning to ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Way back in '85 when I got my first computer I knew that there had to be a way to use it to make money. While I was going about life pretty much the same as most folks, from one day to the next, I would occasionally revisit the ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Well, here I go again with another long gap in posting that I couldn't avoid and no, I didn't just load up the golf bags and head off to pebble beach for the better part of a week. I also didn't just decide to sleep in for several days ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Any blogger that's made the move from WordPress 2.3.3 to the new 2.5.x can tell you that the Admin panels have been drastically changed. I've seen a lot of talk about it and there's people landing on two sides of the thing.
One set of people clearly prefer the new ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Say you're a blogger that has enough knowledge to use WordPress, write & edit posts, upload a plugin. You're not a coder so instead of spending a lot of time learning how to write code, you use a widget-ready theme and use widgets for everything you need to put ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
I've elected to allow my digg profile to recieve shouts because I'm interested in new things that people are writing. I'm also willing, when I have time, to digg those stories shouted to me that I find interesting. However there is a large number of people that are ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Here's a good illustration of why you should be careful about what pictures you put online even if they're in a "private" area of some kind.
This story on Wired.com tells the story of a security flaw that was discovered in MySpace last fall.
This flaw allowed people to view photo galleries ...
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Around six weeks ago Google came out with "Open Social" which was their stab at getting into the social networking scene. However in the intervening six weeks they've come up with zip. As a matter of fact the thing isn't even done yet and isn't expected for another ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
I'm not talking about moving as in changing your place of residence. I'm talking about moving as in changing where your website and it's domain is hosted. I've just done it with a domain and two sub domains... one of which hosted a blog and also required getting ...
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