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The Art of Evangelism – Guy Kawasaki at Gnomedex
Guy Kawasaki is the original tech evangelist online. He came to Gnomedex and did a great talk. Guy is a fantastic speaker. He knows what he’s talking about, and he communicates in a clear and humorous way. He had the crowd in stitches several times. The topic of his talk? The Art of Evangelism. The [...]
Robert Steele – Open Source Answer to Everything?
Robert Steele was the keynote speech to kick off the first day of Gnomedex. He made a very interesting speech, although it was a lot more political than I was expecting. Essentially, he is a big believer in open everything, and he addressed a lot of our political problems to make the point that openness [...]
Gnomedex – HP’s Party
I am freshly back from the pre-registration party at Gnomedex 2007, sponsored by Hewlett Packard. That means I spent some time talking to the reps from HP. The guy who is (I believe he said) the head of the design team for their notebook PCs. Interesting conversation. He was showing us their new tablet form [...]
In Seattle for Gnomedex and a Little Tired
Just a quickie post. I have arrived in Seattle and I am in my room at the Grand Hyatt paying $9.99 for 24/hours of internet access. Yeah, they kinda rape you on the net access. I don’t know why people can’t just give free wi-fi. Even sitting at Atlanta airport today….tried to check my email, [...]
Getting Tickets for Tradeshows Through Flight Miles
Since I am traveling this week, something came to mind. Actually, it came to mind some time ago but I thought to talk about it here today. And that is the use of flight miles to make attending tradeshows and conferences more affordable. I am traveling to Seattle this week, and I had to pay [...]
Digg Effect – In Living Color
A few days ago, I posted an article saying that I got “Dugg”, meaning I got an article onto Digg.com and it sent me a big traffic spike. This was for an article called “Can Linux Replace Windows?” published over on PC Mechanic. I thought I would share with you the stats from the Digg [...]
The Digg Effect
I have written in the past about how to use StumbleUpon to promote. Shortly after I wrote that article, I got over 10,000 page views to one of my articles on PC Mechanic in one day. Just to one article. Since then, I have hit a few other little “sweet spots” with StumbleUpon and gotten [...]
Open Source and Selecting a CMS
Web publishing is an interesting business. The content itself is one thing, but the software you use to publish is another thing altogether. At the basic level, you have those who are still using HTML editors and FTP to publish pages to their site. All I can say is “Ouch!”. I pity you. Then, there [...]
TubeMogul Offering Video Posting to Multiple Sites
Anybody in the online video arena probably posts to multiple video websites. Or tries to. The problem is that it is usually a pretty arduous affair to get this done. You have to have profiles on each video site and then individually post to each one. To get the most bang out of your online [...]
WordPress and Curing High Server Load
So far, my recent conversion of PC Mechanic to WordPress has been relatively trouble free. Of course, that is a matter of context. Switching publishing platforms on a site as large as PCMech isn’t exactly cake. It doesn’t turn on a dime. So, relatively speaking, it has been relatively pain free. However… One of the [...]
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