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Douglas Bailey Can't Hear You

July 15, 2009
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Former Boston Globe employee Douglas Bailey has decided he simply can’t take the comments allowed under his precious “journalism”.

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Twitter Traffic Multiplier

May 12, 2009

With so many people using a Twitter client, how unreliable is your analytical Twitter data?

Could it be off 100%?

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Why I Altered My WordPress Code To Disable NoFollow

February 3, 2009

This morning I changed line 148 in the /wp-includes/comment-template.php removing the rel=nofollow tag.
This comes from a desire to let people who contribute thoughtful comments at my site to get some love back from me.  The decision is also partly due to the great filtering that Askimet does sniffing out blatent spam.
I am a fan of [...]

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Avatars Can Solve Some Problems

January 4, 2009

A few days ago I was looking for a good picture to use for my twitter account. Trying to pick out a picture you think doesn’t look terrible is always hard, so then I turned to the Internet to solve this problem. I had seen a member of the SEO meetup I belong to that [...]

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Losing A Customer and Screwing That Up Too

December 19, 2008

I try to talk to clients about the new reality in business. Customers have more power than ever before.
You used to be able to treat your customers with disdain and it wasn’t really a big deal, because you had all the power. Now, the dynamic has switched 180 degrees.
When Finnegan was born we looked around [...]

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WordPress 2.7

December 12, 2008

I just ran through the upgrade process for WordPress from 2.6.5 to 2.7.
First let me say that I find the upgrade process about as simple as I could hope for. Secondly, the new admin interface is worth the 10 minutes it takes to upgrade.
I was already a big fan of WordPress’s simplicity and ease of [...]

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Cross Posting for Fun and Profit

December 10, 2008

For the past few weeks, I’ve been working with the awesome online team at the fresnobee.com website.
On Tuesday morning, about 6am PST, the site went live. One of the add on features that McClatchy newspapers is the Pluck SiteLife product. Pluck SiteLife allows visitors to comment on stories, rate and recommend stories, but, one of [...]

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Atrocious Grammer, or, Why You Should Have Paid Attention in 8th Grade

December 2, 2008

I have a hard time remembering the difference between then and than also effect and affect. The fact that I can’t spell to save my life only makes it worse. I take solace in knowing I’m not the only one.
I have a couple small scraps of paper on my desk with usage of words I [...]

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