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WordPress FAQ: What's up with the Amazon Plugin with WP 2.1.x?
How do I use the new version of the Amazon plugin? It never brings up what I am looking for and its very annoying. I want to be able to use it the way it was before the WP upgrade. This question comes from Shannon Nelson who is complaining about the new version of WP-Amazon.…
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WordPress FAQ: How Do I combine Blogs?
This morning, one of our bloggers posted a question in our internal forum. She was seeking guidance on how to take a few (three) blogs and combine them. I provided three solutions for her and decided, in the process, that I would kick start my braindead blogging (lately) into a mini-series of WordPress FAQ questions.…
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Business Plan Series: Part 3 – Corporate Overview
Last time we discussed the importance of analyzing the market and setting up the problem(s) that exist so you can address. Some cases you will want to answer in a shorter format what your company does and the problems it is fixing. This also the time to discuss vision and overall goals. This is what…
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Last Minute NYC Trip
I’ve decided to rent a car and make the drive up I-95 to the Problogger NYC meetup on Thursday evening. It was all very last minute. Had to find a place to stay, rent a car (because mine certainly won’t make the trip) and throw together arrangements (i.e. make sure the Wife would allow it…
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Kent Brewster Said it Right
At SXSW, I sat in on a session “Web Hacks” which ended up being nothing about web hacks. The panel discussion was allowed to spiral into politically laced commentary on copyright law. One of the panelists, Kent Brewster from Yahoo! Pipes Yahoo Developers Network , had a great response to a audience member who wanted…
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Automatic Activation of Plugins
A long time “want” for WordPress, especially since dealing with a large number of blogs at b5media, has been to have a WordPress MU feature that provides a directory whereby all plugins are automatically activated. I have asked for it on back channels for several months now, but it wasn’t until recently that I realized…
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b5media is Hiring
We are hiring a slew of positions (not blogger positions, though there are those too). Jeremy has posted the details. Among those are: Operations Manager Affiliate Manager WordPress Developer Print Designer “Music Phreak” If you’re interested, we’d love to get an email from you with your qualifications, and perhaps even a resumé! :)
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Busy Year
My schedule is looking daunting this year. Never have I traveled as much as I have since going full time with b5media, and the schedule doesn’t look to be getting better. I enjoy traveling, don’t get me wrong. I’m excited about the opportunities that I’ve been given. It’s just… alot. Next weekend, we have the…
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CULT OF STEVE: Apple's mantra
I told you the whole thing is a cult. You gotta love this. Straight from Valley Wag: CULT OF STEVE: Apple’s mantra: “Steve Jobs, since his triumphant return to Apple, has become a latter-day deity, worshipped as much by techies as the shareholders he’s made rich. So much so that his admirers, from product designers…
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Business Plan Series: Part 2 – Market Analysis
In my previous post I discussed the basics of framing your plan and how to set it up. Moving forward, I would like to take more of the startup/entrepreneur/VC type of plan approach and start with the market analysis. This is because if you started with the corporate overview there wouldn’t be a whole lot…