More Resources for WordPress Blogs
Yesterday I shared a lot of tips, plugins, services, themes, and reading assignments with the audience at BlogCon 2011 in Denver. Here are some additional materials I wanted to include in my presentation and initial blog post, but just couldn’t quite squeeze in. More WordPress Plugins If you can’t install NGINX, APC, and Memcached on your server, try W3 ...
Read MoreBlogCon 2011: Pimping WordPress
WordPress is without a doubt the best blogging platform available today. Though it has a bit of a learning curve compared to some hosted services like Blogger or TypePad, WordPress gives you a much greater amount of control, it allows you to truly own your content, and it has a library of off-the-shelf designs and ...
Read MoreThanks to FreedomFest
I just returned from a great trip to FreedomFest in Las Vegas and I had a great time and met a lot of great folks. I especially want to thank Tami Holland and Mark Skousen, who were generous enough to give me a chance to talk to some of the attendees on Saturday. Those of ...
Read MoreHow-To Guide for Podcasting
photo credit: billaday If you’re interested in creating a podcast like Surprisingly Free—the stellar tech-luminarie interview show hosted by my friend and colleague Jerry Brito—then Tate Watkins has the guide for you. Watkins does a lot of the production work for Brito and has assembled his methodology in to a single-purpose Tumblr site modestly titled ...
Read MoreHow Each State Uses Digital Media
From DCI Group: The data compares each state’s Facebook and Twitter accounts to numbers in the 2010 census. The map also provides links to Twitter and Facebook accounts for elected officials in each state, if applicable. This breakdown of each state’s unique social media participation rates will help public affairs and communications professionals better understand ...
Read MoreSalesForce.com Launches WordPress-to-Lead Plugin
ReadWriteWeb has a great write up on the new WordPress plugin from the good folks at SalesForce, which allows full integration between SalesForce and WordPress.
Read MoreBoldly Display Your Email Address with Enkoder
Do you want to allow users to your website to email you without using an annoying contact form? Are you afraid of simply posting your email address on a page for fear of getting spammed into oblivion? Then Enkoder is the solution for you!
Read MoreCreate Your Own “Search Story”
If you watched the Superbowl back in February, then you likely caught Google "Parisian Love" ad. The ad tells the story of a young man who moves to Paris, meets a girl, falls in love, and eventually starts a family. This otherwise cliche story was made into a very creative ad by telling the entire story through search queries. Using only video from a computer screen it shows searches like "how to impress a French girl" and "what are truffles" to guide the television audience through the story ...
Read MoreCoding Open Source Software for Fun & Profit
Recently I asked readers of the Tech Liberation Front, the free-market tech policy blog, to give me examples of successful companies that contribute to open-source projects. I asked readers for this sort of feedback because I wanted to point out that open-source software is a serious business, not just the domain of techno-hippies or amateur coders (who I love). Despite the incredible success of open source software—like the 55% of web servers that run Linux, including this one—skeptics re ...
Read MoreShout-Out from National Review Online
Reihan Salam wrote a great piece at National Review Online today that outlined how the International Intellectual Property Alliance, a group made up of the MPAA and RIAA among others, is pushing for the US Trade Representative to consider countries that use open-source software to be added to a list of countries that don’t respect ...
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