Category Archives: Blogging
Big Changes to Website… and a New Domain
If you are reading this on my blog, you will notice that there is a new domain name in the address bar! I’ll explain how you got here in a second, but first I’ll explain the reason why. As you may know, Jessica has her own domain name, I have my own domain name, and [...]
What is Twitter Pollution?
Twitter Pollution Excessive targeted marketing using a social network’s status updates. Most people have at least heard of Twitter by now. The mini social network seemed like a great idea when it was born out of Odeo (a podcasting company). It can be highly addictive, and can even save you money on your text messaging [...]
MySQL Server Has Gone Away problem solved
I was just looking at RobsNotebook.com and came across a really good solution to a common problem with WordPress. Lately, I have been getting a lot of error messages on my blog that said “MySQL server has gone away.” I looked through the Godaddy support forums hoping to find a solution. Unfortunately, I did not. [...]
2008 Politics: The year of the Political Web
You probably think I am crazy if you read the title of this article. Right now, I bet you are saying “Of course the subject of politics is online. Just ask John Kerry or Dan Rather what a bunch of bloggers equipped with your dirty secrets can do. Or look how much influence the fascist [...]
Traffic Generation for your Blog
I’ve always had the best success with good content. Some of my most successful weeks (in number of hits to my website) were do to some popular original articles. However, sometimes it helps to boost your ratings and get your site out there. Especially when it is new. There are several good link exchange products [...]
Free Commercial Software
It’s amazing how much software is out “there” right now. You could literally spend an entire life just examining new software products that are coming out. You can often find these new titles from places like download.com or tucows.com. These are top of the line directories of software. But what if you do not know [...]
Firefox del.icio.us Bookmarks Add-On
If you have multiple computers, or just use several computers throughout the day, you know how hard it is to keep all bookmarks up to date on all computers. When you save a bookmark, it only posts to your local computer. When you go somewhere else, the bookmark is not there. For a while now, [...]
Make money for your website or blog.
If you spend time out of every day writing on your blog, you might agree that you should at least be paid for it. Blogs have become the “new media.” They provide us with news and information faster than the newspapers and television, and give us all the ability to interact with the news stories. [...]
Flickr increases upload limits
I was just reading a post on GeoBlogger.com about photo sharing. They had an important announcement to make. The popular photo sharing site, Flickr, announced that they will be completely removing their upload limit restrictions for pro users. This makes their site far more valuable for people who pay the $24.95 for the pro account. [...]
Internet Archive and the Way Back Machine
Have you ever wondered what a web site looked like five years ago? Or maybe you want to see the first ebay page ever. The internet archive can be a valuable research assistant for those looking into the history of the internet. The archive claims to contain 55 Billion pages in their Way Back Machine. [...]
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