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How Social Media Can Save The Newspaper Industry

November 12, 2009
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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?

August 31, 2009
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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?

August 20, 2009

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

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.
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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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