WordPress iPhone App

Testing the wordpress iPhone app. Really nice.

It’s not perfect, but still a nice effort.  WordPress 2 for iPhone

WordPress is one of the more common and popular blogging platforms used today, Programmers, marketers and bloggers in general, love its simplicity to use, myriad of powerful plugins, and open source programming. However as many people are discovering, there are some downsides to using wordpress, and it’s not the right platform for every job or client. Read the rest of this entry »

Random Pictures Can Make Duplicate Content Look Authoritative (Philip Wilson Steer: The Black Hat)

In the affiliate days of old, you could take a data feed full of product descriptions and slap it up on the net, buy yourself a PR9 link and you were off to the races. Champagne for everyone. It was long tail before the phrase existed. Google got wise, and in addition to de-linearizing PR, they started doing very sophisticated duplicate content filtering.

The cliche term “Add Value” was born sometime thereafter, and augmenting commodity content has become an art form. The key is to add enough new and unique value so that you can have oodles of keyword rich content without tripping the duplicate filters. I’ve said ‘add value’ again and again at conferences, and I really mean it. I really mean add value to my wallet, that is, but if that means making an original site then so be it.

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Lisa Barone: I'm livbloging This T-Shirt

I made a shirt for Lisa to wear at Affiliate Summit West

Turkey Live Blogging

Live Blogging: please make it stop!

Do we really need a live blogged Turkey Day?

I can’t take it anymore

I'm Live Blogging This.

Just like Shoemoney, I too love free shit. Unfortunately, I’m not cool enough to have people send them to me, but I do love free tshirts.

Here is our fake t-shirt of the week. That’s not me, nor is it a real t-shirt. It’s a bit timely since the recent Live Blogging controversy on Sphinn.

If you want your fake t-shirt featured here, just let me know.

One of my pet peeves is live blogging.  Live blogging, of course, is when a blogger tries to write about an event as it happens.   It’s useless.  No one wants to read inaccurate, unedited reporting.   Maybe I’m just bitter that I’m at home this week, and not at Pubcon, and maybe I just can’t comprehend stream of consciousness writing, but I’ve never read a live blog that was at all useful.

For those of you living in a closet, I’m talking about people who try to keep up with a live speaker, or race to have the first post on breaking news.  They just write as it happens.  Have you ever tried it? It’s hard.  And no one is good at it.  There are lots of conference write-ups that are useful, and the authors above are great when they take the time to think about the post, and write clearly and concisely.

I read live bloggers regularly when they aren’t live blogging. I love their writing. I love their insight. I just can’t stand it when they try to be some sort of court stenographer.

Live blogging is shoddy journalism.

It’s a selfish disregard for reporting integrity.

Please stop.

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