Author Archives: Chris

I Heart WordPress

By Chris | December 12, 2008

Welcome back!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 [...]

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The Way of the Web

By Chris | November 11, 2008

The web has been in a state of transition since it began. Remember the first site that you saw, with Times New Roman text and recangular images? We’ve come a long way since then. Broadband and wifi brought a huge leap forward in web technology because sites loaded faster and we were no longer tied [...]

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Zemanta Review

By Chris | October 2, 2008

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 [...]

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How I Find Blogging Ideas

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 [...]

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Famous Twitterers

By Chris | September 13, 2008

Image by Josh Russell via Flickr

Within the past 3 or 4 months I have become increasingly addicted to Twitter. I didn’t get it at first, because if you aren’t following anyone, and don’t have any followers, then it isn’t very interesting. But the more people you connect with, the more fun it becomes. Now Twitter [...]

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