Charles Stricklin, Mr. WordPress Podcast, has been putting up some amazing posts with regard to running a WordCamp. Unlike most Barcamps, WordCamp was set up very much like a traditional conference, but Charles didn’t have hundreds of thousands in free money floating around.
His posts are very informative, and have tips, tricks and thoughts that […]

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I deleted my Facebook account about a month ago now, having gotten frustrated with how much crud was all over the site. Advertising, information that was useless to me, and the myriad of silly applications that every has added to their profiles drove me away after realizing that doing anything reasonably approximating something productive was […]

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Darren has announced that he wants to do a video version of his group writing projects. I couldn’t be more excited to see what people come up with. The subject for the first one is “Why I Blog”.
One of the things I am most excited about is seeing what everyone produces so that I can […]

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In talking with a good friend of mine, Chris Garrett, he and I have constantly argued about what we want to see from our perfect blogging platform. He wants something social, beautiful, standards compliant, and accessible. I want something simple, functional, fast, and expandable.
Over on WordPress Ideas, there are a great list of things […]

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Weblog Tools Collection has posted a great rundown of what WordCamp is including some details on what Dallas WordCamp attendees can expect. As WordPress continues to grow in popularity, I expect to see many more WordCamps being created around the world, so if you haven’t attended one already, maybe it is time for you to […]

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The Performancing Blog Awards have opened up voting, and so now is your chance to have your say. Is the most influential blogger Darren Rowse or Seth Godin? It would be amazing to see some different people win, but congrats to all those that have been nominated in the various sections.
There are twenty-eight categories, […]

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Performancing is gearing up for their 2007 Performancing Blog Awards, and right now they are calling for nominations on twenty-five different categories.
Each category will have a single winner, two runners up, and possibly some honorable mentions. Our goal is to highlight the very best that the blogosphere has to offer, and we appreciate any tips/help […]

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For a long time, I have wondered why there haven’t been more groups organizing themselves to cater to the companies that want to jump into blogging and do it right. Finally, Performancing, a Splashpress Media brand, has filled that void with Performancing Services. Performancing Services brands itself as high-end social media marketing and blog management.
They […]

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In what makes complete sense to me after the last PageRank update, EatonWeb, a directory that I know and trust, has decided to devalue PageRank on their own ranking system.
Here are some details from their own post on the matter:
EatonWeb uses a combination of metric factors to determine the value of a website. However, we […]

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If you have been a fan of Darren Rowse and his Problogger blog, and which blogger isn’t, then you will be happy to spend a few dollars to show off his logo. He has finally put shirts up for sale using Printfection, which he says is of a higher quality than other alternatives he has […]

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This blog has been acquired by Splashpress Media, and me along with it. I am very excited to get back writing again, as it feels like I have let things slip a little too much around here.
Here is a sample of the press release:
New Media company Splashpress Media has announced the acquisition of five premier […]

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I have always wondered if Gravatar was going to take off, and with its updated release a few months back, it seemed like while it gained some great new features, its paid options took away from the original open feeling of Gravatar.
Out comes news that Automattic, the people behind WordPress, have purchased Gravatar, and they […]

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North x East has released a beautiful looking list of the 50 most influential bloggers and while there are many great names in blogging on the list, sadly I wasn’t listed. (I probably ranked 51st or something…)

There are literally millions of bloggers out there, each of them with their own voice and style, and yet […]

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The mystery is over, and so many people are annoyed. It is like finding out how a magic trick is performed: it loses its magic. Fake Steve Jobs is Daniel Lyons of Forbes.
He writes a post giving congrats to Brad Stone from the New York Times as he was the one who figured it out.

Well […]

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A big hubbub is being made recently about sponsored themes not being listed on WLTC any more. Does this personally bother me? Not at all. It’s his site - he can do whatever he wants. Just like they have every right to take sponsored themes off themes.wordpress.net.
But when posts are titled “WLTC High Ground” […]

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I have a little bone to pick with a variety of people. It seems their blogs have been converted into nothing more than a rolling list of their daily “twitters” from Twitter.com.
Some of the bloggers might not have written articles every day, but when they did write on their blog, they were some great […]

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Blogging Pro is looking to talk to those out there that are amazing bloggers. We want to interview people that work really hard at blogging, and don’t feel like they get the attention they deserve.
I sometimes feel like even with all the work that I have done, that I don’t get the exposure or […]

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We love to watch properties that Bloggy Network used to own. We keep an eye on theme, and enjoy seeing them doing well.
Splashpress Media bought EatonWeb, a great web directory, and has recently relaunched it.
Here are some details from their post on the Performancing:
In our view, a blog’s strength is […]

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One of the hardest things for some bloggers, living at home, by themselves is to force themselves to be social. Others are lucky, and they crave the social connections that going to conferences require. I am not one of them. I have to force myself to approach people I have never met and create a […]

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Mark Jaquith is a well known WordPress expert. He always has something to add to the community, and I mistakingly thought he was an Automattic employee once or twice, but now news has come out that the man who devotes his free time to WordPress, has finally got a paid position in b5media.
Here is […]

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