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SmartLink Feeds Make Amazon Links Easy

Our fearless leader Rick pointed out this post to me today:
One of the great things about the new AdaptiveBlue SmartLink Feeds are that we do all the publishing and you can sit back and make money (via the Amazon Affiliate Program) by simply placing the feed on your blog. Every week we update and republish [...]

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Dave Winer on the future of web publishing

Dave Winer on stage now is going to start with a story (I can’t tell if he started it yet) and then move into questions.  Dave is describing it as something like a blog post.  Like podcasts, unconferences, and similar…ideas based on the idea of social media.
Dave says that Tim Berners-Lee had the first blog, not [...]

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Rashmi Sinha, Slideshare, Designing Massively Multiplayer Social Systems

Rashmi Sinha of Slideshare is talking about second generation social networks.  Her deck is on Slideshare, of course…now I’m saying this not just so you can follow along, but because the my power supply for my laptop just bought the farm.  Brian Oberkirch and I were sniffing the air wondering where the ozone burning smell [...]

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Jeremy Zilar of the New York Times on the Gray Lady’s blogging efforts

Jeremy is the technologist behind the NYT blogs.  There are 100+ blogs right now there and growing.  Okay, a lot of spiffy stats on their bloggy prowess, but let’s get to the meat of the issue…
Jeremy’s first point is about teaching.  Sharing how you use this new tool and medium.  Opening the conversation.  We need [...]

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High Octane WordPress…making WP go faster

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  • Posted on July 22nd, 2007 by User ImageTris Hussey

First off, this is getting into the hard-core geeky stuff.  Barry Abrahamson is giving us the in and out of how to make a WordPress install crank faster.
Most of you should know that your basic install of WP on a basic server can handle a huge amount of traffic without having trouble handling it.
There are [...]

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Matt Cutts: no Google doesn’t hate you, just your code–SEO tips from Google

Matt Cutts is on the stage giving us all the inside info from Google and da man himself.
Simple stuff, basic stuff.  Don’t have your blog in a directory called wordpress…using blog is best.  Personally I like having it in the root, but I get it.
Flipping the title and the blog name…very key.  Write your post [...]

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Designing web-based applications…Designing the Obvious

Robert Hoekman, Jr. is about to take the stage…okay he’s actually been on stage prepping for a few minutes, but you know what I mean.
Rather than being about designing websites, per se, rather it’s about web-based apps.  Now here is a great thing about Robert…he had a whole presentation set up and he scrapped it!  [...]

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How to contribute to WordPress

Getting Involved with WordPress Lloyd Budd and Mark Jaquith … on being a part of this phenomenon…
Lloyd, who squashes the bugs (or tracks them), and Mark who has contributes to the code (like post preview…thank Mark…who also works at b5!).
Lloyd made an impassioned speech that we all contribute to WordPress by using, blogging, and talking about [...]

Jeremy Wright on making money from your blog

As a note of disclosure, not only have I known Jeremy for years, I am a b5media blogger so Jeremy is my boss, of sorts.  Jeremy also gave me my start in pro-blogging (I was the first employee at Inside Blogging, oh years ago).
So we’re able to make money from blogging.  This is true.  [...]

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Lorelle VanFossen blogging content is about the connections

Lorelle started off her talk a few minutes early by wandering through the audience and asking people about their blogs and such … and connected up several folks who were doing related things…building on the idea of content and community.
Most blog posts look like they were written in 10 minutes by:

Can’t type
Can’t think
Released for the [...]

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