Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Yay! My first tutorial as a Six Apart-er is up: Changing Your Page Banner with Custom CSS which was quickly followed by Changing Your Blog’s Background with Custom CSS.

I knew this would happen as soon as I found myself giggling at the long essays of what white people like to do over at Stuff White People Like: San Francisco: [I]t is important to be aware of the fact that regions outside of San Francisco feature many people who are not white, gay or […]

Remaining to-do’s: Today Send out 1-week reminder for Six Figure Blogging preview call 8pm – Get someone to take the box-spring and bedframe Figure out how to dispose of the mattress 6pm – Show apartment to possible sub-let, give her the app forms 8:30pm – Ship more boxes Take cats to vet get health certificates […]

From time to time I get some clueless submissions to my contact form. Here’s a new one: Hi… my doubt is very basic.. actually i m new to blogging world so i m confused about what to blog,  can u suggest some topic which can help me to make some easy money My advice: Buy […]

Coding Horror is one of my favorite technology blogs (I first found it via Reddit). It always startles me how often the concerns and concepts of programming reach directly into so many parts of business and everyday life. Here blogger Jeff Atwood goes off on feature bloat – the tendency of software to add more […]

I’ve been a fan of desktop blogging clients for a long time. For some reason, anything less than millisecond publishing via browser just drives me batty. I think eventually I’ll be enraged I can’t just glare at the screen and have it instantly type my mood and publish it. I’ve used clients like Kung-Foo’s Ecto […]

Shel points to the new Starbucks idea site for customers to submit ideas and vote them up if they think are good ieas. Dell had started this with their IdeaStorm site that was inspired by sites like Digg. My favorites so far from the Starbucks customers: Automatic ordering via swipe of card: Starbucks should enable […]

Way back when I announced the Blogwild book deal, I’d written an ezine called ‘How Blogging Changed My Life’ where I detailed the myriad ways this simple online format had shaped my life and business and allowed me to reach out to people all over the world to share what I know in a voice […]

I’m working on a new lead generation site to build my database and newsletters (similar in design as http://bloggingblunders.com/). I’ve settled on my primary colors – just not sure what combination to use. Please pop your favorite in the comments… thnx! Logo #1: Logo #2: Logo #3: Logo #4: Logo #5: Logo #6: Is the […]

I grew up right on the edge of the Ohio river with Kentucky and I always remember the year they declared the entire state’s education system unconstitutional. Not that the education system in Indiana is much better (there’s a reason my parents – public school teachers – sent us to a private school). The poverty, […]