Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

The transcript and audio from last week’s call with Yvonne Divita is up and ready for perusal.

Transcript available in PDF (141 KB) and HTML (44 KB) format. Audio recording: As part of the outreach for Blogwild! A Guide for Small Business Blogging, I’m hosting a free series of expert calls with some of the top blogging brainiacs out there. Our second call is with Dave Taylor, a prolific expert and author […]

Heads up for our call Tuesday with Dave Taylor on blogs and search engines. Full details…

The Smoking Gun did an investigation into Oprah’s book club fave A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. Turns out much of the non-fiction memoir isn’t true. Amazon’s Customer Discussions (I didn’t even know they had these) and customer reviews are on fire. Random House, the publisher is promising to accept and refund copies of […]

Argh – my newsletter is late in sending out tonight. Our call with Yvonne starts in an hour and the thing was supposed to send before noon!

The sixth annual Bloggie awards is open for nominations.

Transcript available in PDF (198 KB) and HTML (63 KB) format. Audio: or click to download. As part of the outreach for Blogwild! A Guide for Small Business Blogging, I’m hosting a free series of expert calls with some of the top blogging brainiacs out there. Our first call is with Yvonne Divita from Lipsticking […]

One useful way to see the difference between blog platforms is to look at what pages they output. I’ve created four diagrams to show the structure of four of the most popular blog platforms. Blogger TypePad WordPress MovableType You can quickly see that while Blogger is free and Google-powered, it lacks some great features like […]

I used to try and be really clever with post titles. But I find the more obvious, the better. Take for example, The Learning Channel’s line-up tonight: 8:00 pm 750-Pound Man 9:00 pm Woman With Half a Body 10:00 pm Face Eating Tumor Now you can’t tell me you don’t know what Face Eating Tumor […]

A Windows vulnerability that is as simple as displaying an image can allow code to be executed on your PC without your permission. This is burning up the discussion boards right now and dozens of exploits have been found on the net to take advantage of this security hole. All versions of Windows have this […]