I spent a significant part of the last decade working for a company that was in an utter fight for its survival in a declining market. We had layoffs almost every 6 months for the 7 years I was there. I’m repeatedly told I’m “old school”. Maybe you could all use a little “old school” advice for working in troubled economic times: Companies are going to have to restructure – those that are configured for rapid growth will need to…
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve seen a lot more people making the switch to WordPress. Why not? The system is utterly configurable, with a plugin (or 5) for virtually every need. The problem is that not all plugins are of the same caliber. In fact, some are downright site killers. Since I’ve had a close look at a lot of them, I thought you all might benefit from a look at the plugins that I use on my personal…
Yes, sometimes it’s in our best interest to do something we don’t really want to do, to literally kiss the pig. Nothing could better typify this than the great ad debate, that age old fight that occurs in media wherein the editorial staff seeks to maintain their supposed journalistic credibility by running a publication that is utterly advertising free, while the ad staff is running around trying to turn your hallowed publication into The Want Advertiser. When I worked…
Looking at my analytics package, I noticed that virtually no one is reading this at 800 x 600 screen resolution, so I devoted a whole lot more width to the content section of the page. I’ll probably juggle things around a little more tomorrow and sort out some of the minor formatting in the right side columns and such. It’s the age old story, the web developer’s site is the last site he pays attention to. In making this change,…
Check out the CNN article here… Okay, you’re betting I’m gonna get all snarky on them and tell you how they don’t know what their talking about. Actually, just the opposite, they’ve come up with a very good, very simple guide that is worth passing on to the SN newbies you know. It just might keep them out of hot water in the workplace. Actually they had one bit that I hadn’t really thought of before: Don’t forget others can…
‘Round Midnight – Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams in Stockholm,1967
A great post I had to share from Leo Babauta at Write to Done. One of the reasons I was able to draw so many readers to Zen Habits within the first year was that I treated the promotion of Zen Habits as you would any other product — I branded it. Of course, there are other reasons as well — I really focused on creating as useful content as possible, for example — but branding is what really helped Zen Habits take off…
I’ve been doing some testing with beta versions of the new WordPress 2.7, which has a very extensive redesign of the Admin console. Yeah, you read that right, the admin console is being redesigned again, even though it was just redone in 2.5 which came out very recently. The good news is that they’ve really done a wonderful job on the admin console. As much as I have been saying that WordPress is trully a content management system, they are…
Okay, the election is over, so now we can get back to business. Congrats/condolences to you, depending on your point of view. Now we can put the arguments aside and get onto the topic of the economy. Whether or not it’s a simple case of panic or a fundemental problem in our system, it’s time to get the situation solved before it becomes a blight that affects us for the next 20 years. A few more random observations from…
It is looking like John McCain will lose, and depending on the poll, not by much. If he does lose by a slim margin, then we will be able to attribute his loss to the bill that bears his name, the McCain/Feingold Act, which is the common name for the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. You see, at the root is this: John McCain elected to take public funds in the spriit of the bill he co-sponsored. In doing…