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The unknown missing comment

A huge part of the value of blogging can be in comments. I am not sure if those that just read blogs know this or not but it is wonderful for bloggers to have people leave comments on posts (as long as they are not rude). What you as a reader might not realize is [...]

Anatomy of the Scoble Effect

So just because I have wondered what kind of effect a link from an “A list” blogger has, I am going to share what happened here.
In the 24 hours after Scoble linked to me on a Saturday afternoon, I received approximately 1020 more hits than my daily average. Here are the referral stats for that [...]

Northern Voices 2007

On Saturday Jenni and I will be going to a blogging conference in Vancouver Canada. I am really looking forward to meeting fellow bloggers and hearing great talks. I will be taking pictures and some audio, maybe even some video. I wont be focused on writing while there but plan on just enjoying a day [...]

I am amazed by WordPress 2.1 Ella

It might not be a big deal to bloggers, but the latest version of WordPress is a huge step. One feature is of particular interest to me.
You can set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a [...]

Trolls are a waste of time

I never get into it with trolls unless I just don’t see that they are trolls. Before you know it they have sucked valuable life energy from you body and you are stressed, heart rate increases, feelings of anger. For what?  I will try to be more aware. Life is too short to waste time [...]

Some goals to work on

This year I am actually using the new year to make some resolutions / goals that I needed to make anyway. New Year Resolution is just the kick I needed. Thy all have to do with personal discipline and growth (duh), doing the things I know that I need to and want to.

Blog everyday

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Blogging everyday?

There is a group on flickr that you can join and take and post 365 self portraits in one year (Only one per day). I really don’t have the time to do something like that but it cool nonetheless. But can I blog everyday? I can try. Last year my friend Josh made a [...]

Taken from the moleskine website

“A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.”
– William Stafford
I am adding this to my wishlist, Large Squared Journal but I am [...]

Blogging about Love – Mindcamp MP3

On sunday morning at Mindcamp 2.0, just after breakfast, Ponzi and Dave Winer hosted a discussion called "Bloging about Love". Dave was late but made it in the end. It was a small room and there whereonly eight of us to start with people standing in the dorway from time to time to join the [...]

Updated my header graphic

I changed my header graphic to a picture from Mindcamp.

I also got a picture of me with my Podfather, Dave Winer. Thanks Dave.

Regulus theme updated

Thank you to Ben at Binary Moon! He just released a new version of Regulus that allows me to change my graphic header. In my opinion it the best theme on wordpress.com

Testing out the Odeo call it in feature

Today I tested out the Odeo call in feature, I tried doing a conference call with my wife, and it sounds pretty good. No where near the quality of a Skype recording but Anyone could do this, without a computer. It sound as good as the first talkcrunch episode without the intro and music.
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The magic of trackbacks

Those of us that come from Blogger may have used Haloscan for trackbacks and never ever even got one. WordPress is great, trackbacks are automatic. So when Evan says that he wont be getting any, he is mistaken because I dont have to do anything special, just link to a post and WordPress does the [...]

Who needs a blog?

Maybe I should start with the question “Who doesn’t need a blog?”
Do you enjoy reading blogs? What is it that you like about reading other peoples blogs?
People blog for many different reasons. The one that I would like to focus on here is having a place on the web to call your own. Odds are [...]