Category: General

Noka Chocolates claims they make the purest chocolates in the world. A journalist and foodie start to work his way through the clever marketing messages to learn it is a carefully contructed web of horseshit. And this is after no other reporter had checked out their story to see if any of their claims were […]

Let’s say every author on our blog has a fancy schmancy header. When readers are reading the Author Archive (author.php) and reading just that one particular author’s posts, how do we tell WordPress when to pop which graphic? Off the author ID. The is_author() conditional tag can tell us 1) if we are viewing an […]

Trying to get a template to show just a certain author for a certain category of posts. Finally found this: One post per author <?php query_posts(‘author_name=admin&showposts=1’); ?> <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <?php the_content(); ?> // and other output <?php endwhile;?>

Verna tagged me with the ‘five things people don’t know about you’ meme 2 weeks ago and I’ve been trying to dredge up things that I have never chronicled on either my business-y or personal blog. When you’ve been blogging for 6 years it is hard to come up with anything new to reveal. 1) […]

(via Steve) Blogs Gain Favor Worldwide: Among the eight countries examined in the study, Canada saw the highest penetration of visitors to blogs, with 58 percent of all internet users visiting the category in October 2006. Half (51 percent) of all internet users in Spain also visited blogs.

IF you’re coach-type, be sure to make room for Andrea’s encore of her ICF conference presentation: ‘The Coaching Electric?’ | Audio Recording

As more and more social networking and media sites launch, they’ve started paying for your attention and creativity. Mashable has the scoop: 19 Ways To Make Social Sites Pay.

Mark Evans :: Odeo: A Sign of Things to Come? Twenty months after raising $5-million of venture capital and several strategic mistakes later, Odeo’s founder has decided to buy back the company from investors, and rename itself Obvious Corp. What’s particularly interesting about Odeo’s move is whether this is just the beginning of a trend […]

The rude question you were asking yourself: User-Generated Content Sites Need Millions? The reason I’m baffled is because they now have about $20 million but I can’t see any original content on their site — all they do is aggregate everybody’s else’s content, let people leave comments and posts, and then display it. All that […]

Yahoo! Top Searches of 2006.