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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 Blog on WordPress using Network Solutions

1- Buy a domain name (like www.jefflazerus.com) 2- Buy a hosting account on Network Solutions 3- Install WordPress out of the “Tools” panel in your account manager area 4- Login and post, but don’t expect it to work the same each time, and always expect some new useless (?) upgrade from WordPress at random times. [...]

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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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BREAKING NEWS: Print Publishing to Go Electronic in 2010

Sorry about the sarcasm, folks. Click here for the story. It doesn’t seem likely that an Apple Tablet, although fun and interesting, even a “game changer” the way the iPhone was, will “save” the print industry. It seems like another way to bypass the page. I have to get one!

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Just When I Thought Twitter Was All Noise

Dr. Joe Webb, print industry economist at whattheythink.com tweets some pretty dramatic news:

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Internet advertising is officially not real

This is from the U.S. Small Business Administration‘s business.gov site concerning advertising your online business, and I quote: Advertising and marketing on the internet is regulated very similarly to the real world HA HA! Too bad, internet! You’re not real, as I had suspected all along! Sorry, feeling a bit cynical today. P.S. What’s with [...]

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New Media is Replacing Old Media: DON’T JUST SIT THERE, GET ON IT!

A rare cohesive and and cogent argument with hopefulness, new and improved: NOW WITH FEWER TYPOS!

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Just for fun, or, whatever the opposite of fun is, depending on your point of view:

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Turn and face the strange

For the two people who regularly read this blog ,  I wanted to put up a quick post to say that I’m evaluating the whole thing aesthetically and from the content standpoint. Changes are in the works. My idea (to do experiments with the www and report on them) took a bit of a turn [...]

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mine magazine issue #2 works, still boring

Image by Liutao via Flickr If I didn’t do variable data printing for a living, I would probably be more impressed by the Lexus ad disguised as a magazine called “mine”. Still don’t like the enforced hipness with the lowercase, call me a curmudgeon. Unlike the first edition, they got this one formatted correctly, having [...]

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