Top Five Things I've Learned from the WordPress/Thesis Debate

As Brad McCarty at TNW noted, the battle is officially over. Chris Pearson, who creased the Thesis Theme has decided to change the licensing to his product, so that it is now split under a partial GPL license. WordPress’ Matt Mullenweg seems to be happy with this compromise, as it allows the theme to be … [Read more]

Is WordPress Bullying Developers?

In any industry, large companies have a responsibility to use their influence responsibly. There’s a lot of gray area here, of course, but I do feel like some entities throw around their clout to pressure partners, clients, customers, and so forth into making certain decisions. When a large company is pressuring a “little guy” to … [Read more]

Phone in Your WordPress Blog!

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Now this is a feature I’m not so sure I’d ever use, mostly because I can’t stand the sound of my voice, but you can now enable “Post by Voice” in WordPress and record an audio blog post straight from your phone. By enabling the feature, you will receive a phone number and a unique … [Read more]

Is Your Blog Fast Enough For Google?

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For a long time all of us have been worried about our page rank and how we fair in the eyes of Google.  Yes, I have always said it, “We Live In A Google World.”  Google holds all the search cards, or at least about 60% of it last time I checked, and they make … [Read more]

WordPress Updates With Carmen

The latest version of WordPress has been released per the WordPress blog and Matt Mullenweg. I am most interested in some of the features they have updated or upgraded with reference to video and other media that is added to posts. The sooner they make it easier to put up a blog post the better. … [Read more]

Announcing Wordcamp Las Vegas At BlogWorld Expo

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We wanted to announce something very exciting that we have never done before now, Wordcamp LasVegas @ BlogWorld Expo will take place this year on October 16 – 17, 2009. I had the opportunity to speak at Wordcamp Las Vegas in January in conjunction with a trip to Las Vegas.  I was very impressed with … [Read more]

Learning WordPress

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This is my third try at writing this post as I have lost my draft three times.  Isn’t that just the way when you want to talk about a technology?  I am writing this in the dashboard of WordPress.  There are many choices when wanting to use a blogging platform, like Blogger, Moveable Type, Squarespace … [Read more]

Blogworld Expo Speaker Interview: Shama Hyder

Q: In two sentences, highlight your background and professional experience to date. One bonus sentence: how’d you get started blogging? I run a small online marketing firm based out of Dallas called After The Launch. We specialize in helping professional service firms market themselves online. I started blogging a year ago because I wanted a … [Read more]