My must have WordPress plugins

Even though it’s been the holiday season, work on Using WordPress hasn’t slowed down only a wee bit. Several of the initial chapters are now in the loving hands of my editors and I’m proceeding full steam ahead. Since crowd sourcing works pretty darn well for getting feedback, commentary, and information, I’m looking for a [...]

WordPress 2.9 is out and this is solid update to upgrade to now

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This afternoon WordPress 2.9 went from Release Candidate to just plain old released and, yeah this is a good one. I’ve been using 2.9 in it’s early beta incarnations for months now and have been quite happy with it. I haven’t noticed a huge improvement in speed or stability, but then again I’m not benchmarking [...]

Time for a new look at “content federations?” Building our hand-crafted content together.

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The big topic at the moment, even as evidenced even by Fever/Chill Pill– Is Mike Arrington’s post on the demise of hand crafted content—The End Of Hand Crafted Content—then followed by several sage responses: Doc Searls Weblog · The Revolution Will Not Be Intermediated Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried The [...]

Remind me again, why don’t we live blog as much anymore?

Way, way back in 2005 I started live blogging at conferences. Blog Business Summit was the first a) blogging related conference I attended and b) the first conference I live blogged. From that point on I got to be pretty well known as a live blogger. It even got me into conferences and my travel [...]

How do you give back? Building the Social Media ecosystem.

We talk about giving back to the (social media) community as one of the most important parts of the whole ecosystem, if people don’t give back then things start coming apart at the seams. I’m not talking about charitable giving here either, this is also essential and something that the fortunate should do, but the [...]

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