Twitter Search is Failing Us: Is There a Solution?

One of the crucial parts of using Twitter and social media for business intelligence is is search. The problem is that when using Twitter search for information is that Twitter holds all the cards, and I think Twitter is dealing from the bottom of the deck. Here are a couple of examples. First my Twitter [...]

Good News: New Projects

Heard from my editor yesterday. I got approval for a new book (this will make #3) to write this summer & a video project (on WordPress) to follow. I can’t talk about the book project yet, but it’s cool.

Building Websites with WordPress (for Normal People) Next Week: Do you have a domain?

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Next Saturday (May 29th) I get to teach one of my favourite classes: Building Websites with WordPress (for Normal People). Although it’s one of my favourite classes to teach, it’s also the one that poses logistical problems to teach it really well. First, here’s how the class is described in the UBC course catalogue: Build [...]

It’s Easy to Make Child Themes with Twenty Ten: Download My First WordPress Theme

One of the parts of Using WordPress that I’ve been spending a lot of time learning the whole WordPress theming area. Theme frameworks, Parent-child themes, CSS, PHP, Menus, Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies all interesting parts of WordPress 3.0 that I’ve been delving into and making some headway with. Last night, while working on [...]

Trying Twenty Ten for a Time

I’m having an attack of “I want to keep things simple on my blog” so for at least a little while I’m going to use the Twenty Ten theme that will be the new default theme with WordPress 3.0. One of the interesting built-in features are the “Asides”, which this is one of. So…aside from [...]

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