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06 March 2008

Surf*Mind*Musings

industry is abuzz with a new Google Split test that offers a site search box underneath the first result, for a small set of navigational queries. The blogdom analysis has been rather shallow of this feature, so let me break it down for you.

Perfect Porridge — Music, Minneapolis, Mutiny

Here’s Tristan Prettyman’s cover of the song “New Soul.” You’ll probably recognize it from the Macbook Air commercial.

Tom Conrad

And then the blogosphere picked it up. The first accounts I read sounded like “HUGE BLOWUP AT GNOMEDEX!!!” Strange, I thought — my experience of the event was quite different: it was a non-event for me.

Make Money Blogging

The following income streams (from a number of blogs) have helped me to earn a six figure income each year for the last three years from blogging. I’ve ranked them from highest to lowest.

Daniel Morrison

I founded Collective Idea to build intriguing software. I can usually be found working in a local coffee shop, or on my front porch.

05 March 2008

Chris Brogan - MyBlogLog

What percentage of your day is email, phone, and msgng? SXSW: what are you most looking forward to doing there? Who are you hoping to see?

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The Social Media 100 is a project by Chris Brogan dedicated to writing 100 useful blog posts in a row about the tools, techniques, and strategies behind using social media for your business, your organization, or your own personal interests.

Blueroot Studios An Experiment

Mashable has a great roundup of online calendars and calendar resources that are available right now. The usual suspects are there along with some lesser-known calendars. Of course we all know who the leader is still (at least until Yahoo releases their

Pete Hopkins, Grogmaster

Just a quick note that the same principals I used a few weeks ago to add XFN support to Blogger’s Link List work just fine when applied to the new Blog List blogroll page element, available on Blogger in draft. I’ve just done this, so everyone in ther

Future of Real Estate Marketing

Say what you like about their business model, Redfin’s real estate search tools are world class and only keep getting better.It’s why it was the only national real estate broker (I defined “national” as anyone having operations that spanned both c

Geek Entertainment TV

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It’s a hard life being most excellent at most video games, but Johnathan Wendel aka Fatal1ty doesn’t shy away from the challenge. So what does happen in a typical day of a professional video game player?

velda.org 2.0

one of the best contact pages I've seen on the web. sxsw'er

Blog : Texas Startup Blog

Techcrunch is reporting Demand Media bought Austin-based Pluck for $75MM cash. Frankly, I am fairly surprised. I first wrote about Pluck after sitting on a panel at the McCombs School of Business (UT @ Austin)

04 March 2008

The Top 101 Ways of Making Money Online

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There's no catch and I'm not trying to sell you an ebook. Or anything (read about conmen who do). I'm not even signing you up for a newsletter. This list was put together more as a laugh. It may change your life. Or it may annoy you enormously because of

Performancing WordPress Themes » The world’s best free wordpress themes

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themes for wordpress: college, tis the season redbook and performancing (very nice)

http://everydotconnects.com/

It’s the same with SXSWi, but the lure of connection, learning and good times at conferences is like the search for magical Disney moments, right? Aww, put on your Mouse ears and go with me on this one….

Silhouette WordPress Theme

some of the best wordpress themes like revolution and silhouette, tapestry, vertigo, dropshadow and downtown java. Excellence!

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Named after Futurosity, my other blog for which this theme was originally designed, Futurosity Magazine is a magazine-style theme with a custom home page, ready for multiple authors. Usage does require some hand coding, but it shouldn’t be too difficult

03 March 2008

How magazine - Events

I just booked my flight to Austin and registered for the South by Southwest Interactive Conference this March. I had an amazing time last year and this year is shaping up to be just as interesting. Confirmed sessions in the design track

johnbiehler.com

There are many ways to see what’s going on from the official site, Upcoming, Facebook and the SXSW Insider on Ning to name few.

29 February 2008

How to use WordPress to run a magazine, news website: CMS, theme, template | Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments

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WordPress, however, is an extensible website content management system that can be used to run magazine-type websites. Here are steps I took to turn this online magazine on Cebu from a blog into its current presentation.