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New Journalism in Action – Using Twitter as a Photoblog with the Iphone

New Journalism in Action – Using Twitter as a Photoblog with the Iphone

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The idea: to run a live Tweet stream from the varied events of the Sutton, Ma Chain of Lights, a celebration that happens at many different locations thoughout the town and its villages.  I used my Iphone with the Twitterlator Application that lets me post pictures direct to Twitter with pictures that I take on my phone uploaded right at that moment.  The tweets all contain the hashtag #suttoncol – short for Sutton Chain of Lights which make them searchable…

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Drinking From the Fire Hose #2 – the China Syndrome

Drinking From the Fire Hose #2 – the China Syndrome

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One of the big complaints that the anti-Wordpress chorus croons is that the vaunted blogging platform doesn’t scale.  Certainly we’ve all seen sites brought low by the “Slashdot Effect” or the “Digg Effect” but my experience tells me that WordPress is getting a bad rap for poor server setup, poor plugin choice, etc. How do I know?  Well, one of the sites I work with last week experienced the “China Syndrome” or potentially “The Great Fire Hose”.  The site, TheTruthAboutCars.com…

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My WordPress Plugins

My WordPress Plugins

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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…

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Write to Done: Branding 101: How to Promote Your Blog Like the Big Guys Do

Write to Done: Branding 101: How to Promote Your Blog Like the Big Guys Do

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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…

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WordPress 2.7 Coming Soon

WordPress 2.7 Coming Soon

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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…

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WordPress 2.6.3 Released, and Issues with Auto Upgrade

WordPress 2.6.3 Released, and Issues with Auto Upgrade

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The folks at Automattic today released WordPress 2.6.3 which is a minor security patch to the Snoopy script they use for displaying rss feeds in the admin area.  Not an utterly crucial upgrade, but one you might want to take just to be sure your secure.  The upgrade took me 5 minutes using the auto upgrade plugin. One issue that I noticed while using the auto upgrade plugin, which was also upgraded, was that the script failed repeatedly on the…

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New Post on Dad-o-Matic – “Ward Cleaver Did Us Wrong”

New Post on Dad-o-Matic – “Ward Cleaver Did Us Wrong”

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I’ve joined Chris Brogan’s group Dad blog at Dadomatic.com and my first post is up.   Dadomatic itself is an interesting effort, as Chris has brought together a very intersting group of dads to cover a range of topics.  Personally, I’m looking forward to bringing the voice of the regular down to earth dad.  Anyone can tell you that while I may try my hardest, I’m no Super Dad.   This post actually starts off by attacking the myth of…

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Geek.com Relaunched

Geek.com Relaunched

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For the past couple months I’ve been devoting a lot of my time to the re-release of http://www.geek.com – the online technology resource and community for technology enthusiasts and professionals.  We’ve added a lot of social networking tools, and also done a general wordpress/bbpress upgrade which will allow us to easily take the latest releases in the future.   This is important on a couple of levels, first off, this is a site that has over 10 million unique users a month. That…

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Old Media Lessons for New Media

Old Media Lessons for New Media

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Just because you’re new media doesn’t mean you can’t learn a few lessons from old media.  As we’re so fond of saying, new media is all about changing delivery channels of old media, hence I think it’s implied that the old school journalism rules have a place in our lives going forward. First off, we need to think about what type of journalism we’re doing.  In almost all cases for bloggers we’ll fall into one of the following three categories:

5 WordPress Features You Should be Using

5 WordPress Features You Should be Using

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Since I work with WordPress at a code level virtually everyday, I’ve got a pretty good handle on how the system works.  The thing that never ceases to amaze me is the number of feature requests I get from users for things that already exist in their system. I’ve seen it in other systems, but honestly, I’m still shocked at the number of great features that most people don’t know exist.  As a blogger, your blogging platform is the prime…

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