Automattic scooped up another very talented person recently. Ian Stewart of ThemeShaper and creator of the Thematic theme framework has joined Automattic as a Theme Wrangler. Sure big news for Ian, but why should this be something we all take note of? Because more and more Automattic is making slow and steady moves to become a company that could rival Google, Microsoft, or Apple in its importance to how we use computers and the Internet. See I read more into this short statement than just “I’m going to be working [...]
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Flickr is one of Vancouver’s greatest Web 2.0 success stories. Born in Yaletown, bought by Yahoo, and continues to go strong (at least me and my 14,000 photos hope so). Today (like “today” as in midnight Pacific time) Stewart Butterfield’s latest project has a name, a look, and some light shed upon it.
Over the summer Stewart let the world know that Tiny Speck was the new project he was starting, and it would be a game of some sorts. Okay, we’ll buy that. Flickr started out as a game, so, [...]
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Glitch,
Social gaming,
Social Media,
Tiny Speck,
Vancouver tech
I’m going to tell you something that us “experts” don’t want you to know. Ready?
Blogging is dead.
Wha? Blogging is dead? Didn’t you just write a book on creating your own blog? Yeah I did, but let’s get this straight—blogging is writing and a blog is just a website that makes it really easy to do that. When I took on writing the book that would become Create Your Own Blog, I have to admit I was a little reluctant at first. Not because I didn’t think I could do it [...]
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Writing
Oh New York Times, I know you’re having trouble making ends meet. I know it’s hard to keep up with the costs of dead trees and top notch journalists, but bringing back the pay wall in 2011? Are you kidding? You just want to cut off your links to spite your paper don’t you? Like Mashable said…
The company says that more details about the metered model will be revealed over the next few months. But let’s quickly look at what it almost certainly won’t do: attract links. Anyone who links [...]
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journalism,
newspapers
When you’re looking for new content, good content, or just plain old information, where do you go? Technorati used to be the place, but that era has, sadly, passed. I often hit Google Blog Search, which can give me some okay results, but no measure of how good the blog is compared to other blogs in that niche. Really the solution is right at hand, it’s PostRank which has been helping me sift through content to get the wheat from the chaff for years.
Today Melanie announced PostRank’s Top Blogs of [...]
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Top Blogs
If you’ve being wondering how good Create Your Own Blog really is, now’s your chance to find out because I have a free sample chapter for you (the Introduction is also included, though I’m not sure I’d call that a bonus or not). Pearson has made Chapter 3, Writing and Creating a Conversation (1.5 MB, PDF) available for you to read and enjoy.
Chapter 3 is one of my favorite chapters in the book and I chose it because I think it is a great piece of work on its own. [...]
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Writing
Hey did you feel that? That subtle shift? That was us moving into a new section of the tech bell curve, the section where more of tech moves from the early adopter section and into the mainstream.
No, I’m not really talking about Facebook. To me Facebook is like the California Roll of social media, it’s easy to get into and there is no of the raw fish to scare the sensitive away. I’m not talking about blogs either, blogs have become shorthand for web-publishing now. What I’m thinking about is [...]
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cloud computing,
Facebook,
Gmail,
Google,
Google Apps for Domains,
Yammer
I try, as much as I logically and realistically can, keep Facebook at arm’s length from my world. I realistically can’t delete my Facebook account nor can I just eschew using Facebook as a powerful promotional tool within social media. That doesn’t mean I have to like it.
Recently I commented on the nature of public and private and before that how employers perceive potential and current employees through their Facebook (and other social media) profiles, both posts raised some hard and difficult questions. Things that we haven’t really had to [...]
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Facebook,
Facebook friends,
Facebook privacy,
privacy,
RWW
Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
