Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

While shopping for books on Amazon.com you don’t just get the salespage and reviews and relevant information – you can also see a blog from the author of the book! Take a look at author Meg Wolitzer’s blog on Amazon and how it integrates into the salespage. No comments features just yet. Full article: A […]

Steve was traipsing around Google’s Book Search: Anyway, I have found a way to read most of their terrific hacks for free using Google Book Search – at least for now. This trick, by the way, works for lots of books, like travel guides. See the end of this post for how I hacked the […]

Duncan points to Andrew’s article on AdSense Mega-Earnings: The Super AdSense earners are not any smarter than your average person. I know many people think they are… but for the most part, they are regular non techie people. They are smarter in one respect though… they use the latest tools available to them to automate […]

A common blog-fear is negative comments. Newbie bloggers are timid about expressing their big ideas and opinions for fear of getting a nasty comment. Toby sez: Sorry, no comments does not make a conversation. It’s called a monologue. One person takes center stage with no opportunity for direct feedback. For my money, a blog without […]

I have recently joined the faculty of the Helix Institute, a learning center for corporate wellness and related coaching services. Their introductory course ‘Intro to Wellness Coaching’ runs on January 17th @ 12 Noon Eastern. To join this call email Ellen Britt with the words “Wellness Coaching Call 1-10” in the subject line.

Hold the phone: The user levels in WordPress look like they’ve been changed – here’s how to fix it. Not sure why but the Postie plugin for WordPress has a habit of pooping out bad HTML. I searched the support page for this and there are many fixes suggested but it doesn’t look like anyone […]

Just a reminder that the Business Blog Basics course starts again on Wednesday January 11th starring Peter Flaschner and myself. Full details at http://www.businessblogbasics.com/

I’m prepping my blogs for a WordPress 2.0 upgrade and was looking to see how best to add tags to the system. I decided on the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin (you gotta love these plugin names – like an IT department would have come up with that – or the term webmaster…). I then figured […]

I’m going to be teaching a session of Andea and Tina’s Multiple Streams Membership Workgroup. The course runs four weeks. Full description at http://www.msoci.com/andrea/archives/538/.

Still recovering from the home cooking but had to chime in that WordPress 2.0 is out and ready for download + they are sporting a brand new design for WordPress.org.