Category: Blog
These days, it's no longer enough to have an inviting storefront and amazing products on your shelves, whether physical or digital. Fueled by social networking and search engines scrambling to keep up, the Web is now happening in real time. How can a small company stay competitive?
One critical component of the answer to that question is something that most businesses have never had to consider doing in the past: Become a publisher. Continue
Social media calendars are being created, modified, enhanced and utilized on an ongoing basis to better manage blogs, microblogs and social network content and messaging.Continue

How long does it take you to write a blog post? An hour? Does the time depend on miscellaneous distractions at the moment? Developing your own methods to write posts efficiently ultimately help you to write faster. The hardest part of maintaining any blog is posting consistency, so it’s beneficial to learn ways that encourage faster writing no matter the size of the article.
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Jordanian student sentence to two years in prison for IM. Imad Al-Ash got two years in prison for the last refuge of the scoundrel, lèse majesté. (If you want a quick rule of thumb for tinhorn dictatorships, check to see if lèse majesté is on the books.) During the five months leading up to his sentencing, the Jordanian secret service tortured the kid. He had allegedly sent an IM criticizing the King of Jordan.Continue
Quick! Look at your calendar, now back at me, now back at your calendar, now back at me! What are you doing on July 23rd? You should be at the Front End Design Conference in St. Petersburg Florida. Front End is a single day presentation focused on content, presentation & behavior. Front-End Conf was created for anyone interested in front-end design to spend a day learning and hanging out with a bunch of like-minded peeps. The topics are intended to cover as much of the spectrum of front-end design that we can squeeze into a single day. For our speakers, we look for people that excel in a particular aspect of front-end design.Continue
NSA to Spy on the Internet. The high-tech National Security Agency is establishing a program of covert surveillance of United States infrastructure facilities and on the Internet, according to the Wall Street Journal. The fantasmagorically creepy name they've chosen for it goes off like a warning siren.Continue
The site shows a View profile of bloggers and lives at the url "/blogs". Unfortunately, this save View became visible at "/blogs/{anyrandomword}". This was not the desired result. To further this specific instance, I realized that my path for the teaser view of each bloggers' post's was at the dynamic url of "/blogs/{username}".Continue
A few weeks ago we reported on the glut of traditional media publishers that are seemingly flocking to the wildly popular micro-blogging service Tumblr. Now it seems Tumblr is also attracting the employees of these media outlets.Continue