Thoughts on WordCamp Dallas 2008

March 31, 2008

I’m just back from WordCamp Dallas where I had the pleasure to see the blogging world from a different angle. I credit Mark Hopkins for really clarifying this in his post at Mashable.
See, I’ve been lucky enough to attend a lot of conferences and events and to interact with lots of people along the way. [...]

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Los Objetos Sociales

March 31, 2008

¿Qué es un Objeto Social? Sencillo, un objeto social es aquello a través de lo cual socializamos. Los objetos sociales son la pega que mantiene unidas a las redes sociales.

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The Business of Blogging Panel, WordCamp Dallas 2008

March 30, 2008

The second opportunity I had to be in front of folks at WordCamp Dallas came in the Business and Blogging panel session. It was amazing to be on a panel with Matt Mullenweg, Liz Strauss, and Mark Ghosh as we talked about blogging and PR, customer relationship and transparency. It was one of the most [...]

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WordPress 2.5 en Español

March 30, 2008

Al fin aparece WordPress 2.5 en su versión oficial. Si quieres tenerlo en español, aquí te lo explicamos.

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WordPress FAQ Session at WordCamp Dallas

March 30, 2008

I had the opportunity to speak at WordCamp Dallas today. The topic was WordPress FAQs which extends the conversation we had here last year. Here is the slide deck from the talk.

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WordCamp Dallas: Photos

March 29, 2008

I’m sitting here at WordCamp Dallas where WordPress 2.5 was announced and released into the wild this morning. There is lots of buzz here, and you might want to take a look back at my own 10 Things You Need To Know About WordPress 2.5 that I released a few weeks ago.
Here, though, are some of [...]

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Departing b5media

March 26, 2008

About two and a half years ago, I embarked on a journey of a lifetime. It was a breakthrough journey that took me from working in a cubicle at Northrop Grumman to living my dream building an internet startup. At some point, we took funding. I recruited Brian Layman and Mark Jaquith and the rest [...]

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Thought Leadership

March 25, 2008

You, know, I’ve gotten far away from blogging about blogging. It’s an overdone topic that had its day in the sun, but we’ve moved on to, thankfully, other topics. However, the depth of content still discourages me. Yes, there are literally millions of blogs out there and the number of really quality blogs have increased [...]

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Blogging in Boxers Interview

March 24, 2008

No, I’m not an exhibitionist. Well, I’m sort of not. Maybe I am a little bit.
Anyways. Minic Rivera contacted me a bit before SXSW to do this interview. As I love doing interviews, I accepted of course.
It’s a pretty lengthy interview where I talk about alot of the same things I talk about here: How [...]

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Coworking in Philadelphia

March 24, 2008

After a great weekend in suburban New Jersey with family, I jaunted over to Philadelphia to work with Alex Hillman and others from the Philadelphia entrepreneur community at Indy Hall, the successful coworking community that I’ve talked about recently, and that we are modeling our own community after.
I shot some video while here to give [...]

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Thoughts on PayPerPost – The Only Time I’ll Talk About It

March 21, 2008

A lot has been said about PayPerPost over the past few years and largely, I’ve stayed quiet on the matter. My silence should not be interpreted as acceptance of how the business is setup or “sold” to bloggers. Techcrunch and others have covered the company, the business practice and the impact on the blogosphere ad [...]

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