I know it’s rather hokey, but I just can’t help thinking about (later) Star Trek episodes and movies when I look at the concepts of an iSlate /iPad/iTablet. You know, pick up some thin device that can show pretty much anything. Read a little missive from Starfleet Command, calculate how long until the warp core breaches, or how big that temporal anomaly is that has Picard’s shuttle craft in its clutches.
THE APPLE TABLET IS COMING, SO OUR NEWSROOMS MUST BE READY
THE NEW APPLE iTABLET IS ALMOST HERE: THE [...]
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Public or private. Tell the world, tell a few, tell no one. This is one aspect of social media that I constantly struggle with in my life. This evening Raul, Guacira Naves, and I were chatting about this very topic this evening at Blenz. The three of us all have our own stories of the good and bad of public disclosure. I think it’s safe to say the three of us agree that there are no easy answers. By happenstance when I got home what did I find in my [...]
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by Tris Hussey on December 19, 2009 · 4 comments
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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 18, 2009 · 7 comments
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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 it, I’m just using it. Oh and writing about it, of course.
For my money, there are two great features that make this a great update. The first is the new built-in image editor. No, you [...]
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by Tris Hussey on December 12, 2009 · 0 comments
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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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As you may have gathered from previous posts, before I finished Create Your Own Blog, I started work on book number 2. I’ve been a little cagey about it, but with things pretty much set now I can tell you that I’m writing a beginner’s guide to WordPress called: Using WordPress. This book will follow other Using… books from Pearson where the book is aimed at the novice and will also include screencasts and podcasts to go along with the book.
It’s very exciting to be working on my next book [...]
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With my first book coming out in January, I’ve been watching the eReader space for more than just gadget lust: I want to make sure I can keep writing books. Sure I can just write away and maybe self-publish the work, but you know I’d like to make a living at least in part, through writing. In order to do that publishers have to be able to afford to pay writers enough of an advance so we can write and not starve in the process.
So Simon and Schuster’s plan is [...]
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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 giving back more in the work or friends sense. How do you try to even the balance in your life?
Think about all the answers in community-powered forums (the WordPress forums come to mind immediately), Twitter, [...]
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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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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.
