So I thought it appropriate that I announce my new iPhone by posting a blog from it. So I downloaded the WordPress blog tool, then found out the code on my blog was outdated. After updating that, I came back and typed a post and then for some reason, the post or save buttons...
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iPhone Away!
Losing the top spot on Google
I meant to mention this the other day when I Googled myself and found I had lost the top spot on Google’s search engine to a blog. (I question Google’s mixed relationship there, because it owns the blogging tool.), but today when I checked, I’ve even moved further down the line to be 5th....
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Blogging in 2006, a Year in Review
As this is the first day of the new year, I wanted to use it as a chance to send out a big thank-you to those who read my blog on a regular basis and take the time to comment. I also wanted to list the top 5 most read blog posts that I...
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Read My Mind By Reading My Bookmarks
My thought today: Can you tell what’s on someone’s mind by what they’ve been bookmarking? See if you can figure out what I’ve been thinking about by looking at a dozen of my most recent bookmarks: Flipper NationI’m a huge fan of anything HGTV, and recently I’ve also been watching a lot of shows...
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The Retail / Corporate Blog Effect
JupiterResearch released a report in June 6, 2006 that shows 35 percent of large companies plan to institute corporate Weblogs this year. Combined at the time with the deployed base of 34 percent, nearly 70 percent of all corporate website operators will have implemented corporate blogs by the end of 2006. Not to question...
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“Citizen Journalism” Gannett Jumps on Board
Have you got a blog? Do you write about what’s happening in your world, or under your expertise, or in your realm of influence? Gannett Co. may want to hear about it. The nation’s largest newpaper chain plans to create stories with information from bloggers, people who post in Internet discussion groups and other...
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Is Social Bookmarking the Search Engine of the Future?
So it wasn’t until a couple months ago, that I began to hear about the whole concept of “Social Bookmarking”. I’ve even mentioned it to a couple of my friends, and they always pose the question “what ARE you talking about?” Even though I understand how social bookmarking works now (well, not completely, but...
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Google Analytics on Your WordPress Blog
So I did a couple searches yesterday looking for the technique for putting Google Analytics on my blog. Since I’ve already put their code on the main pages of my portfolio site, I wanted to add it to the blog as well. I found a quick little bullet-point that revealed how it’s done on...
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Brad’s Blog? What About a Name that Works?
Renaming my blog for better search engine recognition Tweet Sweet made it to the top! So I make it an effort to check at least every few days where my search rankings fall in Google and Yahoo. I’ve even started checking MSN, though I don’t get as much traffic generated through them. I’ve been...
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Staking my Claim in Blog Country – Creating a Blog
In case you hadn’t read previously, this isn’t my first creation of a blog online, and probably won’t be my last (unless of course, noone ever reads my long posts and I start to get bored of writing to noone.) My first attempt at a blog, Tweet Sweet, is online at www.tweetsweet.com. Tweet Sweet...
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