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From time to time I’ll post full posts that I write for Future Shop (that’s allowed now), but today, it’s just excerpts. Enjoy! Last week Nicholas Negroponte was quoted as saying that the physical book would be dead in 5 … Continue reading

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It isn’t starting a book that’s hard, it’s contining to write it

Book Three is starting to gel, but it’s been a tough few nights of writing to get to this place. See, I don’t find starting a book hard, it’s after I have the first 2 or 3 chapters written that … Continue reading

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WordPress 3 & Parent-Child Themes from WordCamp Vancouver

If you missed WordCamp Vancouver and wanted more than the slides I posted previously, now you can watch Catherine Winters & I talk about WordPress 3.0 just a short while before it came out: As Catherine & I talked about, … Continue reading

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Would You Use iBooks as your iPad PDF reader?

I’m not sure this is a great idea, but it is certainly a nice option: Once you’ve got the files uploaded to Dropbox, though, how do you get them into iBooks? Just find the PDF in Dropbox on your phone, … Continue reading

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Automattic updated the native WP client for iPhones, etc…and wow you can paste on the iPad now! Cut-and-paste now behaves as expected on the iPad. [#438] [From WordPress for iOS › WordPress Version 2.5 for iOS] Wow. When will the … Continue reading

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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.

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Rock Me Amadeus and Other Strange Writing Rituals

If you write a lot or rather often have to write on a deadline, you probably have a ritual or three to get the creative juices flowing and wake up a sleepy writing muse. Now I thought some of my … Continue reading

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