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…
Editor and Publisher is reporting that the Orange County Register is laying off 110 by Friday. We should remember that their parent company a few months ago launched a pilot program to outsource some editing to India, in addition to also sending some pages for pagination overseas as well. A flat world indeed! OCR Publisher Terry Horne: “This isn’t necessarily just to improve profitability, we have to become a different kind of company,” Horne said. “We will be more focused…
Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy. Wow – read the post before this first. Then read this. Here’s where we’re going, folks. This is earth shattering. The Christian Science Monitor plans major changes in April 2009 that are expected to make it the first newspaper with a national audience to shift from a daily print format to an online publication that is updated continuously each day. The changes at the Monitor will include enhancing the content on CSMonitor.com, starting…
New York Times To Staff: Relax, We’re Not Firing You Yet Wow – even with out the Silicon Valley Insider’s snark, this is a wild and wooly bit to go out to the troops from the NYT Editor, Bill Keller. The cattle must have been close to stampede… Check out the Insiders conclusion: But we have a problem with Bill’s characterization of the cuts around the industry as “short-sighted.” Bill’s business reporters would never characterize them that way, and if…
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…
The Top 10 Gadget Sites | Fast Company We relaunched geek.com last month, and this month Geek’s made the FastCompany.com list of top 10 gadget sites. Congratulations to Joel, Sal, Robb and the rest of the Team! We’re in good company, with my college buddy Jim Louderback’s Revision3 making the list for Tekzilla (love it!) and Leo Laporte’s Twit.tv as well (I’m a subscriber…).
I’ve got a few tools that I probably don’t mention enough. These are the things that let me work faster, better and, at least appear, smarter. They’re not the sexy, but less useful stuff, like Twitter, etc. These are the day in day out go to services that you’d be a fool not to use:
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…
I’ve had a glimpse into the future of home video and it surprisingly comes from a device I already owned, the Sony Playstation 3 (and it works on the XBox 360 as well, but I haven’t tested). By downloading and installing a small app to my windows machine, I am now able to access online content from Hulu.com, CBS.com, Youtube.com, ESPN.com and soon, CNN.com and Netflix. The software is PlayOn! which is currently available as a 60 day beta trial,…
I missed this one last week and it’s the kind of post that I think most Social Media wonks will gloss over – “Social Media Scalability, the New ROI Question” from Shel Israel at Global Neighborhood. Scalability is an issue for anyone who introduces something new online and wants to grow. It was true for the pioneers who predate social media like ICQ [LINK], for the Stanford start up team for a search engine called Google. It was true for…