Remember the days of high school English class or getting a big paper assignment in college? I do. I never minded the act of writing; I was the type that thought having a “pen pal” in some far off country was pretty cool. (Mine never wrote back). However the concept of getting an assignment that [...]
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It takes practice
I was watching Gary Vaynerchuk’s talk and Q&A session at SXSW. Been following Gary’s growing online business for a while now and written about him several times. At about 16:25 of the session, Gary talks briefly about his early days getting his video blog up and running. He tells the audience to go back his [...]
Twitter Issues, Tissues for Short
Two facts are known through the web and tech community regarding Twitter: 1) It has quickly moved from a simple ‘what are you doing?’ tool to the poster-child of the micro-blogging phenomenon 2) It has been having huge scaling issues which has been causing service outages over the past several months. Both facts [...]
Disqus must be Disgusted
Okay, I’m probably exaggerating but it sure makes a good headline. At this point, most have heard the news that Automattic, parent company of Wordpress (which powers this blog) acquired IntenseDebate for an undisclosed sum. Offical news here, here and here.
IntenseDebate is one of the major blog commenting platforms out there. The other is Disqus, [...]