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Raleigh Blogger Roundtable

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In a couple of weeks I’m going to do something new. I’m going to bring about a dozen bloggers and make something great happen. The Blogger Roundtable will be my first event that attendees will have to pay to attend.  It’s scary to make the jump from, “I know a little more than you so [...]

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How Social Media Can Save The Newspaper Industry

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Working in the US newspaper industry in 2009 isn’t always rainbows and unicorns, but there is a way to save it.

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Does This Social Media Make My Ass Look Fat?

Geek Girl

You know those shows where professional stylists help regular people look their best, maybe you need one of those for your online persona. Don’t blog is you don’t want to blog, it will show. Don’t use Facebook if you can’t stand it. Do what works for you.

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Can You Build A Community Website Without Involving The Community?

If you set out to build a community website, yet fail to engage with the community, do you have any right at all to think you’re going to succeed? The Washington Post thought so.

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Why I Altered My WordPress Code To Disable NoFollow

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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