Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

My course with book publicity guru Suzanne Falter-Barnes starts. Full details…

South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Teen’s blog confession forces him to plead guilty in fatal crash.

Matt announces that WordPress is now part of Yahoo!’s hosting packages.

I just got off the phone with a publicist who was asking about how to start finding blogs on certain topics and what keywords to search for. We started experimenting with different keyword combinations but none were really hitting what we wanted. If you want to use valuable keywords in your posts, remember that you […]

Fantastic news:audio editor Audacity is adding features for easier podcasting. Features include batch processing, FTP upload and faster performance when managing large sound files. I wish they’d add better support for MD3 tags.

Extend it like a fox: 8 Cool Firefox Plugins You Never Knew Existed

Bloggers chronicle the World Trade Organization protests in Hong Kong at Curbside (via Dan)

Kurt Eichenwald wrote this New York Times piece: ‘Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World’: Justin was a 13-year old boy when he started using his webcam to make money. It started off by undressing for money (sent instantly via PayPal) and soon became a bedroom industry of private voyeur cam sessions […]

When Google released the Google Maps API, they allowed developers to create hundreds of applications using maps from Google (my favorite being ChicagoCrime.org that allows me to see all the crimes on my neighborhood block). Now they’ve released the same interaction for Google Talk – they’re instant messaging and VOIP application. This puts them a […]

As everyone knows, TypePad has had another massive outage this past week – this one in connection to a data center move. The Six Apart gang burned through a large amount of goodwill just a few weeks ago with another outage. In an interview, one of their techs lays it out: The first is our […]