Archive for May, 2008

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Unpopular As Bad As Too Popular

Josh Catone of ReadWriteWeb published an intriguing article the other day that dove into the question, How Many Friends Are Too Many? In his article, Josh takes the example of Jason Calacanis who follows 26,672 people (now at 29,978) and suggests that there is no way in hell that Jason can actually participate in conversations [...]

May 31st, 2008 | Jeffro | 3 comments | Continued
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Twitter Is Overloaded. Too Many Tweets!

Twitter is overloaded. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.

Screw you too Twitter. Typing 140 characters isn’t hard, but having to retype them over and over again until they are registered, is.

May 31st, 2008 | Jeffro | 1 comment | Continued
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WordPress Weekly Episode 18

Well, another week has passed which means another edition of WordPress Weekly. In this episode, it was more like a free for all, talk about anything we want kind of deal. Although during the show, I did bring up a number of news items that I thought were worth discussing. During the introductions, I gave [...]

May 31st, 2008 | Jeffro | 3 comments | Continued
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Creating Opportunities Through Blogging

Fox Business recently published an article highlighting some of the success stories of some of the big name bloggers out on the net right now such as Perez Hilton, Christian Lander of Stuffwhitepeoplelike fame, and Amit Chatwani to name a few. While reading the article, it was interesting to note the series of events which [...]

May 28th, 2008 | Jeffro | 13 comments | Continued
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WordPress Weekly On May 30th

Just a heads up to let you guys and gals know that the next episode of WordPress Weekly has been scheduled for May 30th, 2008 at 9PM EST and will be another open mic, roundtable discussion. We’re going to talk about the news of the week, probably discuss some of the things learned from last [...]

May 28th, 2008 | Jeffro | 1 comment | Continued
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Milky Icon Sets 1 And 2

Frexy has released part 1 and 2 of his milky Vector icon sets. The icon sets were designed in EPS 8 format and contain icon sizes of 48X48 and 64X64 PNG image files. What is interesting about this icon set or more or less icon series is that, every week Frexy will add 15 additional [...]

May 28th, 2008 | Jeffro | 2 comments | Continued
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TechCrunch Under A Microscope

TheStatBot has recently published an awesome statistical analysis of TechCrunch.com Some immediate findings based on the number crunching produced by the bot:

Total of 7007 posts….
…spread over 1079 days, or just under 3 years…

…with a total of 1,977,710 words…
…at an average of 6.5 posts a day…
…with 282.2 words a post…

…receiving 228,449 comments…

…from 56,292 unique commentators…
…with [...]

May 27th, 2008 | Jeffro | 1 comment | Continued
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Vector Scratch Style Icon Set Released

Garcya has released a 7.3 MB Scratch style vector icon set which contains 95 different icons. Garcya has pretty much given you the freedom to use these icons anywhere you prefer. The icons are in vector format and within the 7.3 MB file is where you will find a single, large AI file with all [...]

May 27th, 2008 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
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Selling Babies On Ebay

According to a story published out of Berlin, Germany via Reuters, police apprehended a 23 year old woman after she tried to sell her 8 month old son on Ebay. The mother told police it was a joke, but I don’t think the police thought it was funny. By the way, the Ebay auction read [...]

May 27th, 2008 | Jeffro | 2 comments | Continued
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Pitch Consisting Of 140 Characters Or Less

Aaron Brazell of Technosailor.com has released a WordPress plugin entitled WP-TwitterPitch. The idea behind the plugin is to tidy up your email inbox allowing those from Public Relation companies to pitch bloggers through twitter, forcing the PR representatives to get their point across in 140 characters or less. A couple things worth noting involving this [...]

May 27th, 2008 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
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