Use-it’s look at affiliate programs is worth a read if you are considering adding advertising and income sources to your blog. An affiliate program is a way for sites to pay for incoming traffic: when site A links to site B, there is some mechanism for site B to pay a referral fee to site […]
February 6, 2006 – 7:32 am
Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Workgroup writes about “Five Great Ways to Harness Collective Intelligence”, and makes a good point about the concept of collective intelligence. One of the things Ellyssa discusses is some practical examples of harnessing collective intelligence, one of the linchpin techniques of successful Web 2.0 software. The article describes this as when […]
January 23, 2006 – 6:41 am
Blogging is great fun. It’s exciting. You start out with great ideas, full of motivation and inspiration. After a while, though, you run out of steam. The muse isn’t so amused any more and you start hunting for content, things to write about. There are two aspects of finding content for your blog. First, it […]
January 10, 2006 – 6:47 am
HeadRush’s Creating Passionate Users’s post on “Crash course in learning theory” is a great Reader’s Digest Condensed Version of a variety of learning theories. Learning theories are methods and techniques of teaching others how to learn. While you might think that this is only important to instructors and teachers, it is critical to anyone, including […]
January 2, 2006 – 11:07 am
If you didn’t know blogging was the hottest fad on the Internet, if not the planet, you should know it now. The Long Tail – Announcing the Fortune 500 Business Blog Index is the announcement that a new wiki has been developed which will track the bloggers working for the top Fortune 500 blogs. Short […]
December 8, 2005 – 12:45 pm
Photo.net has an interesting article on “Using Image Calibration to Reduce Noise in Digital Images” that is worth a read. While it is fairly dry, written more for academic purposes than get-to-the-point help, it still brings up some good tips and points worth understanding when using digital images. I believe that understanding the sources of […]
November 25, 2005 – 8:08 am
If you could see the web, what would it look like? I was recently asked, “What does the web look like?” This inspired me to find out what it might look like if we could see the web and Internet, all the interconnected parts and pieces that create the spider web for which the “web” […]
November 21, 2005 – 8:46 am
When it comes to mixing up a rainbow of colors for your WordPress blog or website, one of my personal favorites is Color Schemer. You can pick a color and it will show colors related and in the color theme for that color, darken or lighten it, or mix up some other features to find […]
November 19, 2005 – 4:41 pm
After the massive whams of hurricanes that have hit the Gulf Shores of the United States, and sitting in the middle of them, working on this blog and my other WordPress site has been incredibly painful as the power goes on and off and maintaining a digital cable line continued to be unstable. When the […]
November 5, 2005 – 1:08 pm
I teach nature photography, and one of my favorite subjects is teaching patterns in nature. When Mandelbrot came up with fractal theory which introducted the ability to actually measure clouds, mountains, and rugged coast lines, it was very exciting for me. Now I had a name for these patterns. Well, the math and sciences have […]
October 20, 2005 – 10:37 am
A few years ago, before Google and Yahoo took dominate control of the search engine industry, there was a huge move towards innovative search engines. Cluster search engines worked on the data clustering theory that categorizing groups of information makes finding specific information faster and easier. Enter the Keyword Map known as KWMap. This keyword […]
October 5, 2005 – 10:49 am
After you’ve validated your web page’s code, content for search engines, is there anything else you can do to maximize your search engine ranking? Yes, there is. It’s known as linkability or link popularity. Google and other modern search engines are now determining a website’s ranking using the theory that if everyone is talking about […]
September 29, 2005 – 5:16 pm
Tips Apply to the Full Version of WordPress. In our WordPress Tips, we cover a lot about WordPress Themes, editing, tweaking, and changing the layout, as well as developing them from scratch. Here are a few more tips and issues you need to consider when choosing and editing your WordPress Theme. Help Me Find a […]
September 19, 2005 – 5:30 am
You might have heard about it this June, but I thought it bore repeating. The secret is out on much of what Google uses to rank your website on their search engine. To read the actual patent information released to the public, see Google’s patent for their search engine ranking technique from 2005 on evaluating […]
September 16, 2005 – 5:45 pm
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