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Make money promoting the Thesis Theme on your blog, especially if you’re using it on your blogs like I am. Here are the easy to follow steps: Sign up for the affiliate program at Share a Sale. Hover over ‘Merchants’ in the Header Select ‘Search for Merchants’ Search for ‘Thesis’ Select ‘DIY Themes’ Apply to [...]

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Forum Users Are Vocal

by Robyn Tippins on February 12, 2007

When I am looking to get the word out for a client, I often look at forums for inspiration, because I think the real conversations (since the pre-1995 AOL explosion), have always been on bulletin boards and forums. Forum users are loud-mouthed and honest and you can get a great idea of these things: 1. [...]

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This morning, Feb 1, Barcamp USA tix went on sale. Here’s the deets: Early registration special if you register before May 1 $20 for 1 day pass $10 for each additional day Total cost is $50 for all 4 days There will be an option to sleep inside some of the session tents at no [...]

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From ComputerWorld: Ballmer said Microsoft was motivated to sign a deal with SUSE Linux distributor Novell earlier this month because Linux “uses our intellectual property” and Microsoft wanted to “get the appropriate economic return for our shareholders from our innovation.” This may make quick balance-sheet sense, but to piss off a plethora of developers and [...]

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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, said on his Wiki list that he’s looking for inspiration on buying copyrights to put them in the public domain: I would like to gather from the community some examples of works you would like to see made free, works that we are not doing a good job of generating [...]

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WordPress Widget Error

by Robyn Tippins on August 5, 2006

I’ve done a goodly amount of searching on how to fix this error in my Widget plugin, but apparently because they are on the new side, this error is not very common.  In fact, I only found one instance of it happening online and that was in the support forums, and no one had answered [...]

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Podcast Roundtable Participants Martin McKeay, Dan Sweet, Jeremiah Owyang, Dennis McDonald and me Summary: HP demands workers on site –smart or stupid? Are corporate marketer’s going extinct? and exactly how many logins and IDs do we need to use the web –is there a solution? In this episode, (one of our best ever) we’ve tackled [...]

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Firefox Upgrade

by Robyn Tippins on June 2, 2006

Blogging can be so frustrating when you have to deal with tools that upgrade and then glitch for unknown reasons. This mornings security update for Firefox is a case in point. The early morning is always a busy, deadline-rich time for me, and as it’s also summer and my kids are out of school, I [...]

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CSS Problem Solved

by Robyn Tippins on May 27, 2006

I just want to thank Scott of Tyner Blain. He took the time to download my CSS, study it, find out my issue and sent me the snippets of code to fix it perfectly. I really appreciate the effort and the results (note my right sidebar is no longer underlined).  You may have to clear [...]

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I can’t tell you the number of people who tell me they migrated from Blogger (blogspot), Google’s uber popular blog platform, because of the lack of categories. I know that Blogger has implemented some great additions to their platform in the past year. When I began blogging on Blogger there was no picture upload (you [...]

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