Getting fired for blogging doesn’t get as much attention as it did in 2004-2005. Back then, the media was a buzz about people getting fired because they were blogging, when, in truth, very few people were actually fired for blogging. Oh yes, some people were fired for blogging, that much is true. I’m sure many of the cases had little to do with the blogging parts as it did with something else going on. However the “fired for blogging” thing did do one good thing, it forced companies to realize [...]
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This morning I had the wonderful privilege to be on Donna Maria’s awesome Indie Business Radio show and when we got to talking about podcasting I said that it was about time I wrote an updated Podcasting 101 post and thus…
I started podcasting about a year after I started blogging. My “Walk About Podcasts” were pretty good, considering I didn’t edit and I had no clue about recording or cleaning up audio files, but hey that was then…
Today I use a Blue Snowball USB-microphone with Apple’s GarageBand (and I actually [...]
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by Tris Hussey on December 19, 2009 · 4 comments
in About the book, Cool tools, Create Your Own Blog, Daddy Wears Slippers to Work, Featured, Mind Mapping, Teaching, Technology, Tips and Tricks, Using WordPress
Remember those days in high school when you were learning how to write term papers? My very well-meaning teachers tried to get us to use notecards and create outlines, anything to help us write better organized papers with the correct citation in the bibliography.
And I hated and chafed at every, single moment of it. While having notecards is actually a good organizational tool, my nascent writer’s brain couldn’t latch on to them as anything more than a royal pain. Even then, and probably more so than now, my chaotic, in-the-data-cloud [...]
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by Tris Hussey on December 12, 2009 · 0 comments
in Books, Cool tools, Daddy Wears Slippers to Work, Internet Life, News and Info, Social Media, Technology, Tips and Tricks, Vancouver Observer - Techplanations, Web 2.0
Things have been pretty active over on my Vancouver Observer column, Techplanations. WIth the holidays coming up I had to cover gift ideas for geeks: Getting Great Gifts for Geeks and since we all need to stop talking on our cellphones while starting in BC starting in January I have a review of some Motorola headsets and a contest to win a headset or hands free car device–Do You Have a Headset for Your Cell Phone?.
Because the column is about helping people use technology better (and fix it when it [...]
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From February 12-28 all of Vancouver is ceding our city over to the rest of the world for the Winter Olympics. Beyond all the discussions about money spent and the myriad issues surrounding the Games, they are coming and they are going to happen. The bottom line is that we just have to deal. Not only do we have to deal, most of us are going to still have to work during the two week period, and it’s that “working” part that could be problematic. Sure, some of us in [...]
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Have you heard of Subversion? No? I’m not surprised because it’s one of those tools that for the most part developers make use of. Just what is Subversion (or SVN for short)? SVN is a tool for version control. It’s purpose is to keep track of all the versions of a given document(s) and make sure that when people are working on a document together, that they don’t overwrite each other’s code. That’s the top level, basic idea behind SVN and for the most part SVN is used by developers [...]
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by Tris Hussey on December 1, 2009 · 2 comments
in Blogging, Blogging 101, Business blogs, Create Your Own Blog, Lifestreaming, Multimedia blogs, Personal blogs, Portfolio blogs, Social Media, Tips and Tricks, Web 2.0
Yes, I’ve been posting more here lately. It seems that my blogging has run in fits and starts of late. Part of the issue, I think, has been the diversity of places I could publish to, coupled with lots of projects on the go I didn’t publish enough. So for the past few week I’ve been publishing more and the traffic results are clear:
It doesn’t matter what the actual numbers are, because it’s a matter of scale. It’s the same thing I told the bloggers at b5media and teach my [...]
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It’s been a long while since I’ve posted here, I think it’s time to get into the swing of things, eh?
As a recap…nothing really has changed. Well in terms of how I work. The who changes, the what is pretty much the same, and the how has been status quo for seven and a half years now.
Web Worker Daily, which should be a must-read for folks like us, had a little article on how to be a better web worker:
Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive How to become a better [...]
It’s a fact of life, sometimes you’re going to need to troubleshoot and fix computer problems on your own. Working from home means that you don’t have IT at your beck and call, so you’re flying solo baby! On Thursday I had one of those charming "oh sh*t" moments and I thought you’d like to learn from it.
I’m going to outline the what happened first, then tell you the things that I did to get back up and running within a few hours.
So what happened? You know I should have [...]
You might think that running cables between computers, especially for networking, is a thing of the past. Well, not really. Sure WiFi has made it really simple to just have a network wherever you want it in the house, but somewhere there needs to be a wire connected to something for it all to work. Engadget has offered a simple start into wiring at home: Link to How-To: Run your own network wiring – Engadget.
Nice instructions, good pictures. And the final line: don’t be afraid to drill some holes. [...]
The NYT had an article about the Mac or PC question (via TMC Net). I think the NYT article was more than a little biased towards the Mac side of the question. Cool case designs aside, I’m still recommending PC.
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Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. If you are interested in having Tris speak, teach, lead a workshop or consult for you, feel free to email tris [at] trishussey [dot] com.
