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Monthly Archives: July 2007

An ode to the end of Facebook

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.

Quote of the day

Douglas MacArthur – “We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.”

More great headlines that get traffic

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 [...]

Facebook’s getting out of hand

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 [...]

How to easily cross-post your linkbait

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 [...]

Yahoo takes 10 days to update an email address?

 I just updated my email address on Yahoo and got this:

WTF?

How to record a remote podcast

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 [...]

Startup Hacks: Marketing with no money – RescueTime Interview

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 [...]

Configuring MySQL and Apache for a faster blog

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 [...]

The Naked Truth Party

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 [...]