July 2006

Using RSS for Marketing at the eduWeb Conference

July 26, 2006

I’ll be speaking this Tuesday morning in Baltimore on “Using RSS for Marketing” at the 2006 eduWeb Conference. If you’re attending, drop me a line or leave a comment. Here’s a brief description of the conference: The 2006 eduWeb Conference is being held in the beautiful Sheraton Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD. The eduWeb Conference is [...]

Wall Street Journal adds Technorati to articles

July 21, 2006

I noticed an interesting feature this morning as I was reading the Wall Street Journal online. At the bottom of every article, a Blog Watch section is displayed powered by Technorati. Clicking on “Most Blogged About Wall Street Journal Articles” take you to a page at Technorati where they list the top ten blogged articles [...]

150 Cheap Places to Live

July 17, 2006

As a convenient follow-up to my post earlier today, I spotted a Forbes article on Digg entitled 150 Cheap Places to Live. Rich Karlgaard writes about how knowledge workers don’t need to live in big cities anymore due to computers, broadband, mobile phones, etc. The report’s methodology includes a variety of factors and the picks [...]

Welcome to the heat of summer

July 17, 2006

Well, we’re finally getting some hot summer days here in Blacksburg and it looks like it will continue through the early part the upcoming week. No matter how hot it gets here in Southwest Virginia, its still infinitely better than being in DC. Beginning in early spring and not ending until late fall, DC smothers [...]

Microsoft plans iPod competitor for Christmas

July 5, 2006

I just heard on CNBC this evening that Microsoft has announced it will be creating a rival product to the iPod. The new iPod competitor will be out by Christmas.

Must have WordPress plugins

July 4, 2006

Paul Stamatiou links to a great post by Derek Punsalan on some of the must have plugins for WordPress blogs. Some of the ones listed I’ve already been using on this blog, but there are a few more that look quite useful. If you publish your blog using WordPress, read this post. By the way, [...]