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Komen Can Kiss My Mammagram

Friday, February 3, 2012

Photo by Tim Waclawski via Flickr As anyone who pays attention to the social blogosphere and the network news knows, the Susan G. Komen Foundation decided to stop funding Planned Parenthood’s breast cancer screening and mammogram program. I’m a woman and a liberal. It doesn’t take much more information that that for you to know [...]

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Useful links: Video, Access U, WordPress widgets

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Video for Everybody! “Video for Everybody is simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 <video> element, falling back to Flash automatically without the use of JavaScript or browser-sniffing. It therefore works in RSS readers (no JavaScript), on the iPhone / iPad (don’t support Flash) and on many browsers and platforms.” [...]

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If you type so damn much, why aren’t you good at it?

Thursday, January 19, 2012

If you met me in person you would find me very quiet, especially in social situations. People often have a first impression of me as standoffish and unfriendly. If they stick around long enough, they find out I’m not. Unfortunately, I’m one of those people who grows on you slowly. This characteristic is my downfall [...]

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Best 5 WordPress Plugins for Managing Multiple Blogs

Friday, January 13, 2012

Running multiple web blogs of any variety takes time and attention and site owners are always on the lookout for tools to make that job easier. While WordPress has long been the content management system of choice for multi-bloggers in the form of its WordPress MU (multi-site) offering, the latest incarnation of the world’s favorite [...]

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Useful links: Responsive images, WordPress gallery

Friday, November 11, 2011

Responsible Responsive Images brings out some points worth pondering. WordPress has added image gallery support. Here’s how to make it work. Can’t wait to find a reason to try it out.

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Guest post: Ten Ways to Generate Better Site Content

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Content Management is a relatively new term in the web world. It’s a concept that has taken on particular importance as the marketing paradigm continues to transition to the digital world. Before, your website was a static entity, a virtual sign post pointing to your brick and mortar business. Today, your website should be considered [...]

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A Bloggers Guide to HTML5

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Are you someone like me who thinks HTML is the most interesting topic on the planet? No? Not surprising, really. Most people have other things to think about. But even those among us – you! – who would rather think about other things have probably noticed a lot of headlines and blog posts that talk [...]

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Useful links: Google+ on WordPress, HTML5, YouTube SEO, Responsive Design

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Three Ways To Display Your Latest Google+ Updates On WordPress from wpmods. searching for signal gives us: The Most Important Parts of HTML5, or Why audio and video are Boring, or The New Web Platform, or an Introduction to HTML5. Yes, all that. YouTube Tips: Blown Away by Phyllis Khare tells you some tips that [...]

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How To Automatically Create A WordPress Post from Your Tweets

Monday, July 18, 2011

We’re in a time where Twitter and Facebook have taken over the world. It’s pretty safe to say that almost every active Internet user has an account on one or the other or even both. Not a day goes by where I don’t see Twitter mentioned on a TV show (especially reality shows) or a [...]

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A Tale of Jazz, Food, and the Freedom to Blog

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Back when I lived in Austin, the live music capital of the world, I was doing some freelance web design. I made a number of sites for musicians. Among them was Mady Kaye, a jazz vocalist. The Jazz Mady has a solo career with 3 CDs under her own name. She’s part of a group [...]

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