Last night was my first Blogging Meetup at the Innevation Center in Las Vegas, which offers state-of-the-art meeting rooms with smoking-fast free wifi, and more, to the southern Nevada tech community. It’s sponsored by Switch, who have ginormous data centers…
The No Agenda podcast with Adam Curry and John Dvorak uses a value for value model to support a great podcast that deconstructs the media and our omnipresent propaganda machines. It does so with no advertising. There are two shows…
So, I tried to log into this blog last night and it said “wrong password.” Hmm. I try two more times and WordPress pops up a message saying it’s blocking my IP because I must be evil, and points me…
Michael Moore shows us one possibility for the future of blogging. His newly-designed MichaelMoore.com is now a one-stop portal for his Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr posts. Social media will now be the primary way he communicates. His blog now…
Award-winning journalist Emmily Bristol blogs hard and thoughtfully on feminism at Sin City Siren. She has an engaging writing style  and is unafraid of wading into online conflicts. Sin City Siren has a considerable following, and for good reason. It…
Jetpack is a free plugin for self-hosted WordPress blogs from WordPress.com that adds a plethora of new features and functionality. Stats and Shortcodes are among the most popular of its thirty modules. I’ve just added three powerful new Jetpack features…
Ian Welsh. The liberal / progressive  blogs movement failed because of a lack of core beliefs and obsequiousness to the Democratic Party, which mostly co-opted them. I never expected them to succeed since they had no real plan for how…
Polizeros now has a snazzy WordPress mobile theme for smartphones, with a slider bar, two menus, easily accessible posts, and more. Please look at it on your smartphone and let me know what you think. Thanks! The image shows what…
Google just changed their advice for webmasters wanting to improve rankings. Incoming links are now much less important. Instead, focus on building a site people want to use and share. They appear to be focusing on social media as the…
Social Media is Dynamite details how social media is becoming the predominant way of communicating on the net, making parts of the web somewhat obsolete. SEO and old style websites are likely be less and less relevant. Social sharing will…