Good news for HTML5 Video is about H.264. Movies. Now YouTube is offering instant movie downloads, and there’s an app for watching movies from Netflix on your phone. 5 Myths About Philadelphia’s ‘Blogging Tax’. The Philadelphia tax came up in a discussion in the comments on this post, so I thought it bore mention here.
Yesterday I made the terrible mistake of agreeing with YouTube’s incessant desire to link my YouTube account to my Google account. The result was that all my gmail, all the RSS feeds in my Reader, became inaccessible. Several attempts to reset the password or recover access to the accounts failed. I have several emails from [...]
product A review by Virginia DeBolt of Professional Blogging For Dummies (rating: 5 stars) Professional Blogging for Dummies is by Susan J. Getgood. It’s from Wiley Publishing (2010). In all the years that I have been reading and reviewing computer/tech books, I’ve never read one the of the books in Wylie’s For Dummies series. I [...]
Bloggers do all sorts of things that earn money or products. Reviews, giveaways, contests, and product mentions are among many common blog post types that may result in the blogger either getting a free product or making some money somehow. Bloggers get pitched by PR firms to try out products and write about products all [...]
You can win $100 by answering my question at the BlogHer site. To be eligible to win, answer before Thursday, August 12. The winner will be picked at random, so leave a comment at BlogHer to get in the running for the money. The question you have to answer? Just this: What was the original [...]
You know Copyblogger, right? Copyblogger is Brian Clark, the genius writer with a kajillion followers who gives good advice to bloggers about how to get traffic and keep readers coming back. I was playing a game in my head with some of the Copyblogger headlines, thinking that if people who wrote about HTML and CSS [...]
Tech tips, geeky how-tos, thoughtful analysis of issues, news about the latest gadgets, ideas for improving your blog—you’ll find it all in these 10 terrific tech and science blogs. They just happen to be written by women. I. Hacker Chick The Hacker Chick Blog is a beautiful starting point. I say beautiful because the graphics [...]
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I’ve been blogging a long time–since 2001. People ask me about starting blogs all the time. Here’s what I usually tell them. It’s easy to start a blog. If you can use Word, you can blog. It’s better if you are comfortable with web sites, icons, the Internet, and your computer isn’t scary to you. [...]
Keep WordPress Widgets from Appearing on Particular Pages from KnowIT is a terrific explanation of how to pick and choose which pages you want WordPress widgets to appear on. HTML5 and CSS3 Readiness by Paul Irish and Divya Manian shows a display you can manipulate of HTML5 elements and which browsers already support them. Chrome [...]
CO to State Facebook Users: “Shut. Down. EVERYTHING.” at eduGURU takes an in depth look at what happened in Colorado with regard to the Facebook Terms of Service. The article also examines similar statements in the TOS information from sites like MySpace and YouTube. You might not live in Colorado, but this may affect you. [...]
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