By Chris | December 12, 2008
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I’ve been publishing online since 2003, and have experimented with just about every content management system and blog engine available. WordPress is not only the easiest to use, it has an incredible support community, and it is completely free. This is open source software nirvana. I’ve been playing with the WordPress 2.7 betas on my own system for the past few weeks, and have been excited aboout its release so that I could use it on my live sites. The development team has really outdone themselves with the new administrative layout. The new back-end is much easier to use, which is saying something because the previous releases were already pretty danged easy to work with.
Hats off to the WordPress team, and keep it up.
By Chris | October 2, 2008
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Have you heard of Zemanta? No its not a drug, although that’s what I originally thought, too. Zemanta is a tool that recommends links, tags, images and related articles as you type a blog entry. I found out about it a few weeks ago, and was intrigued enough that I installed the Firefox plug-in right away. Three blog entries later and I’m sold, I love it.
What It Does
As you type in a blog entry, Zemanta looks through your text for keywords, if it recognizes one, it surfs the web for links, images, tags and articles that are related, and displays them next to your entry. If you agree that these articles are relevant to your post, just click the appropriate button and Zemanta adds the link (or image) to your post.
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By Chris | September 20, 2008
I think blogs are awesome. Anyone with a computer can reach the world, long distance friends can keep up with one another, businesses can interact with the community at large, communities can form and capture the attention of politicians, the possibilities are almost endless. Blogs were one of the first means of social media, and they’re still growing. I work as a search engine optimization consultant, and I make a point of discussing a blog with each of my clients, because they open up opportunities to make a website more useful to the visitors that they’re trying to reach. One question comes up every time. What will we write about?
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