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Now that Google allows their maps to be embedded as easily as a Google Video there is of course a WordPress plugin to help you do just that. While editing your post, you can quickly pop-open Google Maps from the editor and generate your map through the Maps interface, or quickly grab the link to […]

Like Sandbox, Particles is another WordPress theme that is designed to be built upon with extra features and design elements. Particles is maximized for dial-up users: 4 Seconds or Better – The Particles theme has loading time of 4 seconds or less on a minimum connection speed of 56K. These meta-themes are great for getting […]

A PDF diagram showing how the widgets in WordPress function. (via)

A diagram showing how the various tables of the WordPress blogging platform relate to one another. (via)

MarketingSherpa looks at a promotion Madone bike company did to launch high-cost bicycles. Full case study. Nugget: They paid more attention to placement and made sure to put an image, text and a call to action above the fold. Also: Send traffic to a dedicated microsite: All emails were directed to a microsite that further […]

From the contact form: Andy, I was just about to pass your site on to a friend of mine who is also in internet marketing when I came across your word “bastard.” That is unacceptable language in a professional situation and many people find it offensive. You will find greater success with a greater number […]

Nice. (via) CreateSpace is the new name of Amazon’s on-demand self-publishing service for the super long tail of books, audio CD’s and film DVD/Blue-ray. Products automatically get an ISBN number and are listed on Amazon.com, including “Search Inside” for books.

Super Six Apart smarty-pants (and best use of the color purple in the blogosphere) Anil Dash on the Fake Steve Jobs dust-up: Daniel Lyons, author of the heretofore-anonymous Fake Steve Jobs blog, which comments extensively on companies in the technology industry, was also the author of Forbes’ November 2005 cover story “Attack of the Blogs”, […]

Everybody’s favorite debunker takes on homeopathy: James Randi Explains Homeopathy

NYTimes has an article (requires NYTimes registration) on all those multi-millionaires in Silicon Valley that are deluding themselves that they aren’t in the top 1% of the country’s wealthy: “I know people looking in from the outside will ask why someone like me keeps working so hard,” Mr. Steger says. “But a few million doesn’t […]