December 16, 2009 – 12:18 am
Join me and the rest of the Bitwire Media crew for too much fun this Saturday, December 19, 2009, for the annual Holiday Marathon from 6AM to 6PM PST.
Each year, the Bitwire Media team celebrate the holidays with a live podcast and video marathon, with interviews, stories, laughter, games, contests, and a lot of [...]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Babble, Blogging News
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I’m working on a series of articles about personal blogging, but I wanted to share with you a perfect example of a personal blog. It’s by my cousin, Duke DesRochers.
You may remember Duke from the story I did on him called, “Future Social Media Renaissance Man,” on Lorelle on WordPress or the one on the [...]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging Tips, Writing
| Tags: art, artwork, blog voice, blog writing, Blogging Tips, creative writing, desrochers, duke, duke desrochers, how to write a blog, personal blog, personal blogging, poetry, sculpture, Writing, writing voice |
As most of you know, I’m extremely passionate about supporting and encouraging WordPress Plugin authors. I’ve written a love letter to WordPress Plugin authors, spent a month writing over 36 posts on nothing but WordPress Plugins, published extensive tips on how to install, configure, and use WordPress Plugins and another guide for finding Plugins, “Where [...]
March 24, 2009 – 10:43 pm
In Want to Break and Remake WordPress? on the Blog Herald, I summarized this year’s WordPress/Google Summer of Code, an exciting annual project that brings together the top WordPress Community experts with college students from around the world dedicated to making and breaking WordPress so we all benefit.
When I read the cute announcement by Jane [...]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress Events, WordPress News
| Tags: coders, google summer of code, hackers, multimedia, summer of code, video, wordcamp, wordpress, wordpress code, wordpress events, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress summer of code |
March 19, 2009 – 12:07 am
This week’s Blog Herald WordPress News is WordPress News: iPhones Up, WordPress Widgets API, 2.8 Delayed, International WordPress.tv, and More, and I’ve covered a lot of WordPress news you can use:
iPhone for WordPress is in the iTunes store. WordPress Widgets will use new Widgets API as of WordPress 2.8. Security authentication will improve with OAuth [...]
P2: The New Prologue is out for WordPress.com bloggers to play with. Based upon the Prologue WordPress Theme that has been called Twitter-Meets-Blog, this is a form of social networking microblogging WordPress Theme.
The announcement offers more information and a video, but this is not a WordPress Theme for everyone. It is designed for multiple [...]
March 12, 2009 – 10:51 am
According to a news story in Net News Daily, two teenagers from Scotland have created a social blogging platform on WordPressMU and BuddyPress called Scotblog.
Scott Campbell and Nathan Adam, both 13, decided to launch the site after they spotted a gap in the market.
“The internet needed a cool new social blogging site,” said Campbell, [...]
Blog Security is one of the top security blogs out there keeping an eye on all things blog security and WordPress. They’ve just released two great articles WordPress fans need to check out.
First is news of a video and blog post by Guvnr called “10 Tips to Make WordPress Hack Proof. The effort involved tips [...]
In October of 2008, I started a series called “Exploring Social Media” on the Blog Herald. The challenge was to dig into the myriad choices and options to dance the social dance online, to network, share, inform, and educate with the various tools available.
I began by asking people to define social media, since it [...]
Recently, Matt Mullenweg has been fending off questions about bbPress, the popular open source, free forum platform. This past weekend at WordCamp Denver, and last month at WordCamp Las Vegas, audience members begged for an update on the status of bbPress. He joked in Denver that he felt he was being stalked by bbPress fans. [...]
February 26, 2009 – 5:37 pm
This week’s Blog Herald WordPress News covers “Can You Spot a WordPress Blog? WordPress 2.8 News, Plugin Directory Searchable, iPhone App Tested, and More” including:
March is WordPress month with more WordCamps and WordPress Meetups than ever. Will April beat it? Lester Chan makes a WordPress PowerPoint Template for presentations. WordPress wins the Best Irish Blogs [...]
February 23, 2009 – 12:31 pm
Last week on the Blog Herald, I declared this is to be the “Year of Original Content“.
I ranted about my ongoing battle to educate you and protect myself and others from content theft. This isn’t an issue that impacts the few and famous. Everyone is being scraped and having their content stolen.
It is so [...]
February 22, 2009 – 7:21 pm
I’ve just posted this week’s WordPress News: Can You Spot a WordPress Blog? WordPress 2.8 News, Plugin Directory Searchable, iPhone App Tested, and More on the Blog Herald.
Can you spot a WordPress blog? Are you sure? WordPress 2.7.1 released. Improvements on the WordPress Plugin Directory search functions. Help for those transferring from LiveJournal to WordPress.com, [...]
February 14, 2009 – 2:00 pm
WordPress.com warns that the free blog hosting service will be down for maintenance starting Sunday, February 15, 2009, at 20:00 GMT (noon PST, 3PM EST) for maintenance and upgrade improvements. This should only be a few seconds to a couple minutes. This does not impact full version and self-hosted versions of WordPress.
The maintenance probably [...]
February 11, 2009 – 8:22 pm
In an ongoing attempt to break the rules on how a blog works, Liz Strauss of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers turned yesterday into an open comment day on her blog with some of the world’s top bloggers and social media experts.
Each hour from 11AM Central Time until the end of the day, a blog post [...]
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