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Never say never–Facebook Fan Page and Adsense comes calling

by Tris Hussey on January 4, 2010 · 2 comments

in Blogging, Books, Create Your Own Blog, Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0

Yeah, I’m a well known Facebook curmudgeon and haven’t had ads here on the site for years now, but yesterday that changed.
Sigh.
I’m willing to admit when I’m wrong, or at least when I need to wise up to reality. I know Facebook is huge and lots of people make that the centre of their online universe. I’m just not one of those people. Yes, I’m on Facebook and have a respectable number of Facebook friends, but Facebook just doesn’t provide much for me that I can’t get elsewhere.
Except for events.
And [...]

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Observe, Learn, Adapt, Flourish–All Publishing is at a turning point

by Tris Hussey on December 29, 2009 · 0 comments

in Citizen Journalism, Create Your Own Blog, Daddy Wears Slippers to Work, Featured, Internet Life, RSS, Social Media, Technology, Using WordPress, Web 2.0

I don’t buy terribly many books anymore, or magazines, and certainly not newspapers. A bit of an ironic statement from someone who’s first book comes out in January, but I don’t equate publishing with paper. I assume that my books will have more life in digital editions than in paper ones. I’ve been writing in the digital medium far more than I ever have (or will) in works published on paper.
While it isn’t Earth-shattering news that newspapers, at least in print, are dying off. Local newspapers, the hyper local kind [...]

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

by Tris Hussey on December 18, 2009 · 7 comments

in Blogging, Cool tools, Create Your Own Blog, Featured, Internet Life, Personal blogs, Photography, Podcasting, Portfolio blogs, Technology, Using WordPress, Web 2.0, WordPress

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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Twitter me this-if auto DMs are such a pain, why do so many people use them?

by Tris Hussey on December 22, 2008 · 12 comments

in Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0

Here’s a great idea. Whenever someone follows me on Twitter I’ll send them a little direct message back thanking them or something. Okay maybe I’ll throw a link to my blog in too. Hmm, maybe a video? How about the product I’m selling…
You can see where I’m heading with this, auto DMs on Twitter. Sounds great, but honestly they are annoying. I try to follow almost all the people who follow me, but I’m more choosy now than I have been in the past. Why? I’m getting sick and tired [...]

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