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Jul
30
Posted by mark.
I rant, Tony rants, Alan ranted.
With surprisingly similar space-time coordinates.
Our love of Facebook is duly recanted.
We’re no longer Zuckerberg’s subordinates.
Jul
30
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Douglas MacArthur – “We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.”
Jul
28
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My bro (in the literal sense) Nick is on the home page of Reddit this morning with an article about the chopper crash yesterday. As always, it’s all in the headline:
Can you Believe they are Charging the Fugitive Driver for the Deaths in the Press Chopper Crash?
Writing headlines of pure genius like this is going to rapidly become a very desirable skill.
Jul
28
Posted by mark.
Once upon a time I was a Facebook addict. It was an awesome way to reach out to people I haven’t been in contact with for years, share photos, update your status 80 times a day, etc. But Facebook apps are getting a little out of hand…
…and I’ve always hated that friend detail feature. </end rant>
Jul
26
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In my recent podcast we chatted about Linkbait. Linkbait is simply the act of writing a headline for a blog entry or page that will generate a very high click rate and then publicizing that page. If you’re not sure how to write great headlines, start with this page of 10 Sure-Fire headline formulas that work.
If you’re writing great headlines for your blog entries and are looking for places to publicize them, check out socialposter.com. It’s a bookmarklet you drag …
Jul
26
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Jul
26
Posted by mark.
A quick article about how to record a remote interview and how to fix the audio levels after the interview.
I got a few questions about the equipment I used to record the podcast interview with Tony yesterday. I recorded it remotely using Skype – Tony was in West Seattle and I’m in Sammamish. We were both wearing headsets which I recommend because even though Skype is good at cutting out feedback from a PC speaker, some noise does get through …
Jul
25
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This is a followup post to “Think you work hard? Think again.” which generated over 5,000 pageviews in a short time and almost took down my blog server this morning. It’s an audio interview with Tony Wright, the founder and CEO of RescueTime.com.
The interview runs for just over 17 Mins. Click here to listen or right-click this link and click save-as to download.
We chat about how startups on a tight budget can market their product and business for free. …
Jul
25
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I logged onto my blog this morning and it wouldn’t load. I tried to ping the server and it was still up. Then I tried ssh’ing into the server and it connected. I hit reload again in my browser and starting mumbling WTF.
Then I ran ‘uptime’ on the server and got something like this:
09:52:40 up 325 days, 6:45, 2 users, load average: 0.28, 0.28, 0.27
That’s a little high, so I checked how many apache processes there were …
Jul
24
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I just got back from the Naked Truth panel and party in Seattle. It was loads of fun. I met John Cook for the first time in the flesh – he’s interviewed me about 3 times and we’ve never actually met. Also met Michael Arrington briefly.
The panel was so-so. I think the general consensus is that we didn’t learn a hell of a lot that’s new, but it made a great excuse for the party afterward. There was some playful …