Airpress seems like a cool new blogging client: add text, sound, video, webcam, and flash animations to your blog with a single blogging client. (Hat tip Matt.)
Requires Adobe’s new AIR – Adobe Integrated Runtime, “a cross-operating system runtime that allows web application developers to use their existing web development skills (HTML, Javascript, Adobe Flash®, Adobe Flex™, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.”
A University of Florida student was tasered during a John Kerry speech recently:
I don’t have enough time to get into how I feel about that, but I just want to link to the following:
‘Don’t Taze Me, Bro!’ Merchandise Now Available
And of course, someone registered DontTazeMeBro.com:
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: DONTTAZEMEBRO.COM
Created on: 18-Sep-07
Expires on: 18-Sep-08
Last Updated on: 18-Sep-07
Beautiful statement by Jason Calacanis today:
… I’m amazed at how pessimistic the average person is. I’ve come to realize in my career is that the difference between people who gets things done and those who do not is this pessimism. I’ve always been attracted to the folks who say “what if we could…” or “what if you.” When I hear people talk like that I get engaged. When I hear “that’s been done already….” and “that will never work…” I want to walk away from the conversation. I guess that means I’m delusional on some level, and I’m realizing that the best products and companies out there are typically lead by delusional people who hire people who are very obsessive about details–but who are also dreamers.
What if you could…
Can you picture someone with a twinkle in their eye saying those words? Those are the people you should stay close to.
Best. Video. Ever.
We just moved Matthew Cerrone’s Metsblog from its home on BlogHarbor, our Blogware-based blog hosting service, to our new WordPress hosting service PressHarbor.
Matt wanted to move to WordPress to offer some additional functionality to his community that was not possible with a Blogware-based blog, so he chose to move his site to our new PressHarbor plaform. On Saturday night, we moved over 10,000 articles to his new WordPress site; Matt woke up this morning to find that all of his articles for the past 3 years were now in his new blog… He was pretty excited about the move, and his readers were very enthusiastic about the change, saying that the new site was “blazing fast”, “incredibly fast,” “superfast”…
Best of luck on MetsBlog 3.0, Matt!
Technorati Tags: PressHarbor, WordPress
I just took Technosailor’s hilarious Self Importance Test, which lets you know which online “celebrity” you most resemble, and it informed that I am most like Chris Pirillo!
You are most like Chris Pirillo. You dominate your brand and do quite well in marketing it. However, you go out of the way to place the focus on other people as much as possible as a decision on power and authority. You may have many followers, readers or fans but you rarely let this distract you from your mission and focus.
I don’t know if I should be flattered or flabbergasted…
Lorelle’s Using WordPress Categories To Style Posts has some very useful info on setting CSS classes depending on the category in which an article is posted.
Blogware has very deep support for per-category stylesheets, and even complete per-category templating, but WordPress doesn’t seem to have as much depth in this area. Anyone know of a plugin which makes it easier to do per-category styles?
Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Jobs:
I am proud to announce the beta version of WordPress Jobs.
The site is intended to be used as the primary location for employers looking for professional WordPress help to post their needs and for WordPress professionals to find, apply for and obtain jobs in WordPress. We have focussed on aesthetics, ease of use and consolidation of resources in developing WordPress Jobs. Feeds are available for every job category to make it easy for job seekers to find and apply for the right jobs as quickly as possible. We will also advertise jobs from WordPress Jobs on weblogtoolscollection to increase exposure.
Check out WordPress Jobs if you’ve got some WP skills and are looking to put them to work!
Now that PressHarbor is getting off the ground, we’re getting a lot of inquiries about design shops or designers for WordPress themes – where are the good ones? Just received another email:
Can you suggest a very cost-effective, but a good design shop – an individual is preferred – to make some customizations to our site?
How about it – anyone know of a good designer/small shop that can create beautiful WordPress themes but won’t break the bank of the small businesses and individuals who need their services?
Please post your recommendations in the comments or trackback a blog post on the custom WordPress theme designers you recommend.
If you’re reading this post, then you know that 2 things are now true:
The second point is the most exciting. We’ve been working on building a new platform for WordPress blog hosting that offers:
PressHarbor will also offer such features as Pro-blogger level Akismet spam protection included, which would normally cost $55/year if you purchased your own Akismet pro-blogger key. We’ve also been able to solve some key migration issues for our BlogHarbor and other Blogware users who want to move to WordPress, such as preservation and redirection of your current links to preserve and enhance your Google ranking, not to mention making the transition easier as your readers’ bookmarks will continue to function, redirecting them seamlessly to the new location of your pages. A lot of what we’ve learned will help us migrate any user from other blog platforms to our PressHarbor WordPress service, including and especially Typepad and MovableType bloggers.
So I am the guinea pig – somebody had to go first. And I do have to say, the transition was quite smooth… All of the original articles, comments, and trackbacks were migrated, and their URLs redirect cleanly to the new URLs with the right codes to let Google know that the new location is permanent…
Looking good so far here on July 1. PressHarbor is getting set to sail.
I hadn’t seen this before but it looks like a nice guide for the legal layman: EFF’s Legal Guide for Bloggers. Here are some links from the site:
The Overview of Legal Liability Issues FAQ briefly addresses some common legal issues that affect you as a publisher, especially situations where you may face legal claims or threats based on the information you published on your blog.
The Bloggers’ FAQ on Intellectual Property addresses issues that arise when you publish material created by others on your blog.
The Bloggers’ FAQ on Online Defamation Law provides an overview of defamation (libel) law, including a discussion of the constitutional and statutory privileges that may protect you.
The Bloggers’ FAQ on Section 230 Protections discusses a powerful federal law that gives you, as a web host, protection against legal claims arising from hosting information written by third parties.
The Bloggers’ FAQ on Privacy addresses the legal issues surrounding the privacy rights of people you blog about.
Check it out, lots of useful info there…
Joined a very nice group Saturday night for a meetup arranged by Problogger Darren Rowse.
Lots of cool folks, pics on Flickr, Darren’s recap is here.
BlogSecurity, “a site dedicated to providing useful and critical security information for the blog community”, noted the following today:
BlogSecurity incrementally harvested the WordPress software version from 50 blogs; the results were frightening to say the least.
The following statement was taken from WordPress: None of these [WordPress Versions] are safe to use, except the latest in the 2.0 or 2.1 series, which are both actively maintained.
Pretty powerful stuff. Sounds to me like what is needed is a WordPress hosting service which will help you to keep your WordPress install up-to-date automatically… To ensure your WordPress security by making sure you are always running the latest version and are the 1 and not one of the 49.
Yes, that service will be coming soon… 😉
Yes, I have been hibernating. Working on a couple of new projects and have ignored my blog…
Dusting it off today to make sure you know about my good friend Peter Ejtel’s new startup. Yesterday, SharedReviews.com was made public. From their press release:
Beginning early next month, the site will accept reviews from signed up contributors on any retail product, ranging from baby cribs to cell phones and everything in between. Individuals can visit SharedReviews.com now and sign up to participate in the site’s beta contributor release, earning direct cash incentives for the experiences that they submit.
Their site sums it up as “You share your review, we share our revenue.”
Cheers to Peter and Frank and the rest of their team! Best wishes for a great success!
