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Clay Shirky – “Here Comes Everybody”

23. June 2008

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The transactional cost of gathering a group of people together has gotten very low thanks to the Internet and mobile phones. Thanks to technology, there’s virtually no cost involved with getting people together, to exchange information, and act in support or opposition of a particular common interest. Increasingly, media is not just a source of information.   It [...]

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Linkfluence.net – Mapping the Blogosphere

23. June 2008

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Wow.  One of the coolest concepts in blog tracking I have seen in a while.  If you are really a big time blog geek, you’ve probably seen “maps” of the blogosphere before.  They usually look like big and small dots on a page connected by lines.  The big ones look like hairballs. Well, there’s a new [...]

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Personal Democracy Forum 2008

23. June 2008

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We’ll be at the 2008 Personal Democracy Forum Conference in New York City?  What’s the PdF?  Read more here. So why are we blogging about the PdF Conference?  Well, it is probably the largest gathering of political and technology bloggers on the east coast.  The best of the bests are here. So we will be posting what we’ve [...]

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Barter for Web Services

23. April 2008

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We generally try to focus our advice towards beginner bloggers, but this one is for the more “seasoned” blogger. Know what you’re worth! There comes a point where your site is in limbo. You’ve risen to the top of the pack in your category. Or maybe you deserve to be on one of those “The [...]

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Managing Ads on Your Blog or Website

7. April 2008

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One of the issues that always arises when your site starts to take off is managing ad inventory. With Wordpress, managing ad placement is fairly simple. You just create a widget, drop in your code, place the widget, and you’re done. But what if you need to change it often? Or, what if [...]

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Adsense Ads on Your Site Now Scrollable

3. April 2008

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Did you notice little arrows on your site’s Google Adsense ads? That’s because Google just launched that new function that allows users to scroll or page through ads within the widget. Personally, the little arrows look like code errors to me. I thought I had left an extra < > or something somewhere in [...]

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Should I Blog Anonymously?

28. March 2008

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It depends. No.  If you are writing a blog for your business or with a journalistic style, then generally: NO.  Go ahead and put your name on there and take the credit you deserve.  Since you’re writing this blog to build your business and attract new customers, you want to tell everyone under the sun. OR Yes.  Do [...]

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If Mark Cuban can do it, so can you!

26. March 2008

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There was an excellent article up on the NY Times Personal Tech section about blogging. The headline really caught my eye, “So You Want to Be a Blogging Star…” It starts right off with the story of billionaire Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and Chairman of HDNet. Cuban writes his own [...]

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