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Un Authorized Syndication

A post over at ProBlogger.net is asking the following question: “Is syndicating content kosher or not…ie running someone elses content through rss into ones own blog?” And the answer to that varies depending on the circumstances. For starters, I feel that no website should be able to syndicate my full RSS feed while at the [...]

May 11th, 2008 | Jeffro | 4 comments | Continued
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Twitter Gets The Bird Flu

It looks like the time has arrived for Twitter to step up to the plate and do something about this spam problem. Over this past weekend, I received over 20 different email notifications that so and so was following me on twitter. Only 3 of those people were legit. The rest of them were spammers [...]

April 15th, 2008 | Jeffro | 13 comments | Continued
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Worst Interview Ever

Well, I’ve finally seen it. An article about WordPress Weekly which tells me just how bad it is. Ok, so this is one persons opinion. Honestly though, if this is how you feel about the interview or about the show in general, please let me know. I won’t know if you don’t [...]

March 24th, 2008 | Jeffro | 15 comments | Continued
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Its Not So Bad

Have you seen the WordPress 2.5 backend lately? Chances are, you have and perhaps the chances are even greater that you didn’t like what you saw. As for myself, I enjoyed the more modern look with the exception of the color scheme used. All of the color shades appear to be a bit too bright [...]

February 16th, 2008 | Jeffro | 2 comments | Continued
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Blogging By The Numbers

Anne Helmond of the Blog Herald has wrote an interesting article that questions whether or not, the number of blogs within the blogosphere still matters and if anyone out there is still bothering to count.
Anne asked a number of questions within her article such as:
Is the medium mature now? Is that why nobody seems to [...]

February 12th, 2008 | Jeffro | 2 comments | Continued
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The Digg Story Doesn’t Sell Anymore

Muhammad Saleem posted an article on Techcrunch.com that goes over 9 different reasons on why the Digg story sells. Muhammad makes a series of points that I agree helped to propel Digg.com to success. However, the golden days of Digg.com are long gone.
One of the biggest reasons why Digg became successful was that it [...]

January 22nd, 2008 | Jeffro | 6 comments | Continued
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New Business Idea

So Mike, Mark and I each enjoy using the Shoutmix service. Shoutmix is a shoutbox provider. They host the box, content, ect and all you have to do is place the embed code on your website. It only costs $6.00 for 3 months of service and it’s worked out quite nicely.
Now between the three of [...]

January 6th, 2008 | Jeffro | 13 comments | Continued
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Jeffro2pt0 Invading Your WordPress Dashboard

For those wondering, if you were wondering at all, I am the same Jeffro2pt0 that wrote the post, “Technorati Lacks Authority” which is published on the WeblogToolsCollection Website. This website is one of the premiere WordPress material related blogs that show up in a WordPress user’s administration panel. We are talking about a big audience [...]

December 19th, 2007 | Jeffro | 4 comments | Continued
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Time To Pimp Your Webhost

All too often, folks who operate their own blog or website take the opportunity to ridicule their web host when things don’t go as planned. I’d like to change that mentality and actually say some great things about my particular host. When I started this blog back in May of 2007, I typed in a [...]

December 15th, 2007 | Jeffro | 8 comments | Continued
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Blogging Challenge: A Political Post

Every week, Lorelle offers up a new blogging challenge for anyone that wants to try to improve their blogging skills. This week, the blogging challenge is about writing a political blog post. I don’t discuss politics that much because it’s no where near my area of knowledge but I figured I would make at least [...]

December 6th, 2007 | Jeffro | 1 comment | Continued
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