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Getting Things Done in 2006

December 30, 2005

My first book for 2006 is going to be Getting Things Done or the concept known as GTD. Inefficient use of email and RSS are probably my two biggest time wasters. I’ve spent the last few days cleaning up my RSS feeds, organizing my logins in Roboform and changing my email client to Thunderbird, and [...]

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Protopage

December 28, 2005

Protopage is a really neat ajax-style web 2.0 internet based desktop. It is fully configurable page with sticky notes, personalized news, RSS Updates, and bookmarks. A really neat thing it does is let you set up multiple pages, so you could categorize things. [...]

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Behold the Power of Authority

December 28, 2005

It’s been interesting to watch [Eco-Friendly Flip Flops]

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The Ultimate Exit Strategy

December 27, 2005

A thread over at Webmaster World entitled Hit by a Bus is making the rounds and Andy, Jim and Barry are all talking about it. A good place to start would be making sure those daily/weekly/monthly backups you’re running regularly are indeed running [...]

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Speed Blogging

December 22, 2005

I’ll admit one of the skills I’ve honed in the past few months is speed blogging. First off a killer app for speed blogging is Copy URL + combine it with Nick W of Threadwatch Performancing.com’s jsfile (here) and you’re off to a good start.

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How to Create a Splog

October 18, 2005

With all this talk of splogs and spam blogs and even people selling spam blogging machines, I thought I’d give you a nice little tutorial. Any competent PHP programmer should be able to crank one out before lunch time and you should have it debugged by the time you go home.
1. Sign up for a [...]

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Eureka Moments!

October 18, 2005

Have you ever been skimming through forums or blogs and you see someone’s sig file and it has a site name that just piques your curiosity. You look around and the moon and stars align and it ties in with this whole other blob of data in your brain that’s just doing nothing, and you [...]

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WebGuerilla on Podcasting

October 17, 2005

Listening to SEGuru and WebGuerilla talking about podcasting on Webmaster Radio, here’s the quote of the show
“I think if a lot of these bloggers had to listen to themselves talk, they might actually shut up“

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Blog News Reporter: Promotion and Growing your Blog

October 17, 2005

In part two we talked about your your blogging approach and voice (Blog News Reporter: Approaches and the News), so we’ll talk about what to do once your blog is up and running and you don’t have too many readers.

Syndicate Content: Syndicating your content has a few different aspects. The first and easiet method is [...]

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Blog News Reporter: Approaches and the News

October 11, 2005

In part one of this series we talked about the tools for being a blog news reporter (Blog News Reporter: The Tools). In part II we are going to focus on the actual blog itself.

Determine a Goal: When you are getting ready to start a blog try to think where you want this blog to [...]

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Blog News Reporter: The Tools

October 10, 2005

I’ve been working on some blog news sites for several months now and I’ve come up with an modus operandi, and some time saving tips. This is an approach that works for me, feel free to copy it, massage it and integrate it into your schedule as you see fit.

Blog Software: There’s a lot of [...]

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How To Be a Blog News Reporter

October 10, 2005

I’m training people who’ve never blogged before how to be a blog news reporter. I’ve been using writeboard as a tool to develop notes, and in the effort of community spirit I’m sharing my approach. I’ve broken it down into the subjects listed below:
Blog News Reporter: The ToolsBlog News Reporter: Approaches and the NewsBlog News [...]

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Putting a Content Based Website Together

August 13, 2005

We’ve covered long term content and short term content, information pages, and touched briefly on advertising. Now it’s time to bring it all together.
File Structure
One of the absolute biggest mistakes I made when building websites was to not plan far enough ahead. So I ended up with pages like “www.example.com/keyword.html“, “www.example.com/keyword.php”, or “www.example.com/keyword.asp“. Really [...]

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Advertising on Content Based Websites

August 12, 2005

After spending time on research, creating content, buying a domain and paying for hosting, it only makes sense that you are compensated all of your effort. The most effective way to do this is with some form of advertising or affiliate program.
Affiliate Programs
In an affiliate program you are compensated for generating a sale or driving [...]

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Website Informational Pages

August 11, 2005

Now that I’ve covered long term content and short term content I’m left with the parts of a website that is either the most difficult, most tedious or most boring to work on, the basic information pages. Some of these pages aren’t neccesasry, but they will go a long way towards making your site look [...]

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Short Term Content

August 10, 2005

I spoke about long term content in the first article in this series. Now I am going to talk about short term content, which again strangely enough is content which will have a value only for a short period of time. Personally I draw the line between long and short term at one year. If [...]

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