Friend of Clicks and Bits, and partner in numerous other ventures, David Burn, recently launched Liquid Oregon, a blog/resource for all kinds of tasty beverages flowing out of the craft drink mecca of Oregon. Subtitled, “It’s in the water,” is an apt description of what appears to be an over-abundance of the craft trade. Numerous …
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Mark Cuban’s Keynote at BlogWorld
All 1 hour and 13 minutes of Mark Cuban’s Keynot at BlogWorld. For the unaware, Mark blogs at BlogMaverick.com
PayPerPost acquires Performancing
Interesting. PayPerPost buys select assets of Performancing. Reading further, the deal does not include the Firefox Blog Editor or the Ad Technology, but was primarily for Performancing Metrics – a stat analysis package – and Performancing Exchange – essentially a classified section for bloggers. I wasn’t overly impressed with Metrics, mainly because I’m more comfortable …
WordPress Blogs and Google’s Supplemental Index
It seems that WordPress-based blogs have a tendency to be dropped into Google’s Supplemental Index pretty quickly. The general consensus is that this is due to the duplication of content present within WordPress. A typical installation will generate a minimum of five instances of a post – more if the post is identified in multiple …
Poisioning your RSS feed for Splogs
One of the sites I write for regularly has a rather large visitor base, 5k daily uniques to the site and over 2k rss feed subscribers. We’ve always published a full article feed for the convenience of our readers but in the last year we have constantly battled splogs – spam blogs who exist only …
My Usual WordPress Plugins
A friend asked me what WordPress Plugin I use in a typical install. For your enjoyment: Feedburner Plugin Feedburner Feed Replacement which forwards all feed traffic to your Feedburner feed without the need to mess with your .htaccess file. Google Sitemaps Now that Yahoo and MSN have agreed to start using the XML-based sitemap structure …