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How to Make Your WordPress Blog Not Run Faster by Using a CDN That Goes Out of Business and You Suddenly Realize After the Fact That Maybe It Wasn’t Such a Good Idea In the First Place

At last! I have found something on the Internest that is truly free! Oh, wait, no, that’s wrong.

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How to Make a WordPress Blog Run Faster

Optimizing WordPress using a CDN (Content Delivery Network) My blog had been running, if that’s what you could call it, at speeds approximating a gimpy turtle walking in mud uphill… you get the idea. So I started investigating the technical methods used by pro web developers to make their blogs load fast.

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Social Networking simplified

I love this chart. Brian Solis combines intersting data about social networks, analysis, and a nice readable representation.   Related articles by Zemanta The Conversation Graph: The Social Life of A Blog Post (beth.typepad.com) Time Enough for Social Media (Subtitled, “When Real Life Crashes Into Social Media Life”) (socialmediatoday.com) The Social Graph and the value [...]

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Not Exactly Rocket Science : Top Ten Bacteria

Image via Wikipedia My new favorite thing. I think I may replace all the marketing blogs I read with science blogs. I especially love Ed Yong’s bio: Ed Yong lives in London and works at Cancer Research UK. Not Exactly Rocket Science is his attempt to make science interesting to everyone by beating jargon, confusion [...]

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Waiting for Godin, Network Solutions and Zemanta

Well, I finally figured out the way to capture blog readers: mention their company in your post. Since I blogged about Network Solutions the other day, I saw on my Google Analytics page that the person from Arlington, VA, (HELLO ARLINGTON!!! WOOHOO!) did a search for the phrase “network solutions”, found my post, and then [...]

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Seth Godin writes about me, so I should return the favor

Metablog (blogging about blogging) Seth Godin‘s blog is one of the most viewed on the web, so a personal blogger would be wise to model it. Of course, not everyone can be an internet millionaire/bestselling author, and use that cred to drive visitors to their site. (Jealous?) That said, Godin’s blog is frequently provocative, easily read, [...]

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