I was catching up on some blog post reading yesterday and ran across a post on JohnCow.com about a method for killing spam on a blog. The gist of it was using a new feature in WordPress that allows you to automatically close comments on articles older than xx days. You can set the number [...]
I love fast cars and just plain going fast. Course I’m not a street racer or crazy daredevil, but if there as an opportunity to open a car up safely, I’m happy to do it. You can imagine that for a guy like me there are few things more exciting than a jaunt on Germany’s [...]
Timothy Ferris had an interesting post about the effects of multi-tasking on your brain and ultimately your productivity. Here’s a snippet from the post:
In 2005, a psychiatrist at King’s College in London administered IQ tests to three groups: the first did nothing but perform the IQ test, the second was distracted by e-mail and ringing [...]
I meant to post this late last week, but ran out of time and never got it done. If you haven’t already seen it, you need to check out what Darren Rowse is doing over at Problogger.net. He’s put together a 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge with a new tip, thought or [...]
The ABC’s of Pro Blogging
I’m often asked the question, “what does it REALLY take to make it as a pro blogger these days.” Although I don’t have all the answers, I do believe you can boil down the question to some simple points — the ABC’s of pro blogging if you will.
Ability.
If you’re reading [...]
If you have your own gig, whether that be a little blog you run for fun, a multi-million dollar small business, or anything in between, you know first hand how tough it can be to take a break from your “baby”. Whether the break is a vacation or a forced leave of absence for one [...]
After around 4 months I thought why not check my rss reader now I went on this blogging trip where I wanted to get all of my thoughts out the past few months and now that I started skimming through all the posts I realised theres just way too much useless info out there now, [...]
