I’ll be out in Las Vegas this week (my first visit to the City of Sin) for the Community 2.0 Conference. I’m part of the blogging and podcasting team and will be filing plenty of reports on the conference blog over the next few days.
I may cross-post some of my podcast interviews here.
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When weak-ass blog or event pitches find their way to my e-mail inbox, I generally delete them without much thought.
But occasionally, a combination of snarkiness and curiosity takes over, and I find the need to fire back with a message of my own to the lazy/clueless e-mailer about his or her brain-dead pitch.
Yesterday was one […]

I’ve got nothing against blogrolls. In fact, I often tell social media newbies who are looking to find and follow influential bloggers in a particular field to start with one blogger and then follow the links from his/her blogrolls.
But blogrolls can also lead you to plenty of dead ends, too. As Neville Hobson rightly points […]

As much as I’m generally quick to sing the praises of WordPress, it isn’t exactly the simplest blog platform for the beginning blogger. The user interface — even with the apparent major upgrades in the shiny new version 2.5 — can be far too overwhelming for the person who only needs a blog platform for […]