I get “pitched” throughout the week to write about different product releases or updates. Over the past few months, a growing number of these pitches have been less grassroot efforts and more professional and PR like. And many of them have not been good. While I admit I am somewhat of a snob when it comes to [...]
7 Ways to Get Quality Links
Links aren’t easy to get. Let me rephrase that, quality links aren’t easy to get. With RSS that’s even more true because your special sauce (i.e., the content of your site), can often get picked up by spammers and scammers and repurposed as their own. So, without further ado, I present 7 Ways to Get [...]
7 Awesome WordPress Plugins
One of the great things about WordPress is that it can basically do anything you want. If you feel there is something missing, just write or download a plugin. It’s amazing how many plugins are already available. Below, I highlight 7 plugins I’ve used, find helpful, or just think are interesting: Akismet I’ve been using [...]
7 Ways to Avoid Blogging Burnout
A quote often attributed to Robert Frost reads, “If there is no discovery for the writer, there is none for the reader.” Indeed, blogging is tremendously rewarding on a number of levels. But blogging is largely a labor of love. Only a relatively small subset of bloggers generate any substantial revenue from their advertisements. Even [...]
7 Must Have Firefox Search Plugins
After writing about my Rollyo Everything Web 2.0 Firefox Search Plugin several weeks ago, I realized that to their detriment, many people do not take advantage of or customize their Firefox Search Toolbar. There are an inordinate amount of search plugins out there and by a simple click, you make Firefox and your browsing experience [...]
About Ken Yarmosh
Hi. I'm your host Ken Yarmosh, a mobile impresario, O'Reilly author, and entrepreneur based in the DC area. I've been writing here since 2005 with a focus on startups, product strategy, mobile, and more generally, digital technology's impact on business, life, and culture.
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