Recap: Speaking at WordCamp Chicago 2009

Truly an outstanding weekend! Thanks again to Brain Gardner and Lisa Sabin-Wilson for organizing an outstanding event event! Other than venue issues with Wifi access, it went as smooth as glass.
It was also nice to meet Matt Mullenweg and Jim Turner in person for the first time.  Having all of my great friend from the [...]

Why You Should Make Your Photos Public Use – Example 1

Robert Scoble is always advocating this practice…
The effectiveness hits home when you see it happen to someone you know who is less famous (but no less remarkable)…
Congrats, Dan! See you soon.

So Anil Dash Wants WordPress Users to Change to Moveable Type…

Anil Dash has put up quite an intriguing post arguing the case. Matt Mullenweg are you listening?
I’m gonna add a few more reasons to his list of reasons why it would be wise to do so, but before I do that I thought I’d tell Anil why I’m not doing that…YET…
1) I don’t know of [...]

Lee Odden’s Top Ten Online Marketing Tactics for 2008 Survey

Lee Odden has posted the results of his online marketing survey. The blog result is likely directionally correct, but is likely skewed on the high side a bit due to the survey being on a blog. Go figure.

Blogging (25%)
Search engine optimization (14%)
Email marketing (12%)
Pay per click (8%)
Blogger relations (6%)
Online public relations (5%)
Viral marketing [...]

Now Sporting Wordpress 2.3.2

Please clear your cache! I’ve installed the latest version of Wordpress and made several theme tweaks and additions. I’m pleased to announce that all of the plugins I now have are compliant with Wordpress 2.3, I hope this cycle time continues to improve. If you have any problems or have suggestions for improvement, please advise! [...]

Snowy Chicago Blogger Brunch

Several Chicago area bloggers, including Joi Podgorny, Liz Strauss and Jean Russell joined out of town visitor Tara Hunt for some breakfast grub at Over Easy where the delightful server Gwen brought us quite tasteful helpings quite flavorful food!
Though I’ve exchanged many emails with Tara before, I had never met her in person. After the [...]

Rick Klau from Chicago to Honorary Engineer at the Google Dance

Rick Klau was an honorary engineer for one night at the Google Dance 2007. You’ll recall that Rick, formerly “Mr. Naperville”, moved west to work at Google’s headquarters shortly after Feedburner’s acquisition. Rick reports that his commute consists of a short 10 minute drive followed by a one hour bus ride that is fully productive [...]

WordPress 2.3 Beta 1

Wow, Wordpress 2.3 Beta! Small problem I’ve still not migrated to 2.2 due to plugin incompatibility / instability – especially podpress. As I’ve stated before, I hope that many of these more complex plugins functionality gets integrated into the core of Wordpress, reducing this painful upgrading issue.
So my question is this, does Wordpress 2.3 work [...]

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