Yep, it’s interesting. We’ll see.
EOM.
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Requsite Google Buzz Post
by Tris Hussey on February 10, 2010 · 0 comments
Writing is harder than both teaching and doing, but is great for learning
by Tris Hussey on January 5, 2010 · 0 comments
in Books, Create Your Own Blog, Internet Life, Social Media, Using WordPress, Web 2.0, WordPress
Something came in the mail today, which has made this whole “book” thing very, very real. No, not money, the book! I won’t even get to hold it in my hot little hands for a few hours yet, but that’s not what this post is about. While I was writing Create Your Own Blog it struck me how hard it is to write a tech book and make sure that everything is right. I would sit down with my chapter outline, start writing and stop. “Wait, is that really correct?”
So [...]
Tagged as: Social Media, Web 2.0, Writing
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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 [...]
Tagged as: adsense, Blogging, Facebook, Online Marketing, Social Media, Untitled, Web 2.0
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My 45 must have WordPress plugins. Any to add to the list?
by Tris Hussey on January 2, 2010 · 21 comments
in Blogging, Blogging 101, Books, Business blogs, Cool tools, Featured, Internet Life, Multimedia blogs, Personal blogs, Portfolio blogs, Social Media, Using WordPress, Web 2.0, WordPress
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 bit of help with the next chapter in the book: WordPress Plugins.
Us WordPress.org/DIY install users know that there are thousands of WP plugins out there to try. Lots of plugins do the same thing and [...]
Tagged as: Blogging, Blogging 101, Social Media, Web 2.0, WordPress 2.9, WordPress plugins, WordPress tips, WordPress.org
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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 [...]
Tagged as: Citizen Journalism, ebook readers, ebooks, ePub, ereaders, journalism, publishing, RSS, Social Media, Technology, Untitled, Web 2.0, Writing
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Can Twitter Make It?
by Tris Hussey on December 20, 2009 · 8 comments
in Featured, Internet Life, Lifestreaming, Social Media, Web 2.0
Sometimes, especially after this week’s Twitter DNS debacle—Internal Twitter Credentials Used in DNS Hack, Redirect-Twitter Email Security Blamed for Latest Hack—, I wonder if Twitter really has what it takes to make it in the long haul. It certainly took them long enough to get basic scaling working. At least now a simple Apple announcement or single conference won’t completely take Twitter down. If this is the second hack that Twitter has suffered because of, I’m guessing here, poor email and password management then do they have the management chops [...]
Tagged as: Lifestreaming, Social Media, startups, twitter, Web 2.0
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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 [...]
Tagged as: Blogging, Podcasting, Technology, Untitled, Web 2.0, WordPress 2.9, WordPress 3.0, WordPress tips, WordPress updates, WordPress.org
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What skills will make the best journalists? Tech ninjas to rule the roost?
by Tris Hussey on December 16, 2009 · 0 comments
in Citizen Journalism, Social Media, Vancouver Observer - Techplanations, Web 2.0
Journalists seem to always be taking it on the chin. If it isn’t that their craft is dying (which I don’t think is true) or their publications are failing (okay that one is true), now it’s that in order to be agile journalists, keep employed, and be relevant they need to be programers too? Wow, harsh.
As the news industry looks to reconstruct its suffering business model, the journalists of today must reconstruct their skill sets for the growing world of online media. Because of cutbacks at many news organizations, the [...]
Tagged as: Citizen Journalism, innovation, journalism, Social Media, Web 2.0
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Time for a new look at “content federations?” Building our hand-crafted content together.
by Tris Hussey on December 14, 2009 · 3 comments
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 supersizing of content; or how we are turning the Web into an obese mess
Which makes me think about the early days of professional blogging. When people decried what I was doing, that professional blogging would [...]
Tagged as: Blogging, content federations, Demand Media, Social Media, Web 2.0
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Lately on Techplanations: Headset Contest, Gifts for Geeks, Basic computer fixes, and Telelympics Part 1
by Tris Hussey on December 12, 2009 · 0 comments
in Books, Cool tools, Daddy Wears Slippers to Work, Internet Life, News and Info, Social Media, Technology, Tips and Tricks, Vancouver Observer - Techplanations, Web 2.0
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 [...]
Tagged as: online news, Social Media, tech support, tech tips, Technology, technology columns, Techplanations, Vancouver Observer, Web 2.0
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Remind me again, why don’t we live blog as much anymore?
by Tris Hussey on December 11, 2009 · 0 comments
in Blogging, Blogging 101, Citizen Journalism, Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0
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 expenses paid so I could live blog and cover a conference for companies. I think, in fact, I got pretty damn good at live blogging. I had my own style as well, a mix of [...]
Tagged as: Blogging, Blogging 101, Citizen Journalism, conference blogging, live blogging, Social Media, Web 2.0
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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.
