Category: General

Now in our 2nd printing! President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez at the UN ranting about Bush ‘the devil’ and recommending all Americans read Blogwild! A Guide for Small Business Blogging.

Huge thanks to Jim Hopkins and the folks at USA Today for featuring me and the book in today’s article: ‘Blogs put businesses on Web search map’

Your pal and mine, Alberto Gonzalez is hungry for more data. He wants to demand ISPs retain 2 years worth of internet logs on every customer. Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller have met with several Internet providers, including Time Warner Inc.’s AOL, Comcast Corp., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc. During those […]

Danah posts a treatise on the success of MySpace and compares it to the cooling off of Friendster (though they just got a chunk of change recently and have secured a patent on social networking). Social technologies succeed when they fit into the social lives and practices of those who engage with the technology. People […]

Superstars Suzanne Falter-Barnes and Travis Greenlee’s business-building course, Fill Your Groups Now! starts this week. Quoth them: You know how you spend all this money on info products and they’re just grossly general? They say things like ‘Now, go out and determine your target market’. Period. Well, I always want to throw my hands up […]

Big-ass thanks to Tim for featuring the book (and me) in his podcast. Here’s the scoop!

Usually once a week I get an email similar to this: Well, Andy! I read your book and know you tell people to use TypePad for everything and then I see that you yourself use WordPress for your own blogs. You’re probably getting some kind of kickback from the makers of TypePad! So why DO […]

I use Skype’s IM feature much more often than the voice telephony. You can tell Skype to start an IM chat whenever you double-click on a contact (the default is to start a voice call). First go to Skype’s options panel. The General settings appear, and the options are at the top. Another bugaboo is […]

I wanted to add fields to the author profiles in WordPress so users can input their city, state/province and country. So glad to find these plugins: Usermeta and Userextra. Drop them into plugins and activate Go to Options > Userextra and add your extra fields. Now users will see an extra option under My Account […]

Just spent an hour futzing with CSS code and PHP for the Coachamatic re-launch. There was some little piece of code that was making the sidebar appear below all the content on the homepage but correctly on all the other pages. I realized how to fix this much faster: Set the number of posts on […]