If you want a nice, clean, well-coded SEO-friendly WordPress theme, Copyblogger has made their old one available. Not only that – they’ve written you a guide on customizing it and styling it like a pro. Aaand, there’s a custom style pack called Organic. It’s a “custom.css” file you can replace the Copyblogger file with to [...]

If you want a nice, clean, well-coded SEO-friendly WordPress theme, Copyblogger has made their old one available. Not only that – they’ve written you a guide on customizing it and styling it like a pro. Aaand, there’s a custom style pack called Organic. It’s a “custom.css” file you can replace the Copyblogger file with to get a slightly different look from the original Copyblogger theme.

It’s pretty easy to work with – I downloaded it and played with it on one of my sites.

You know how Google asks "Did you mean…" when you put a misspelling in the search box? Well, if you put "she invented" or "she created" it will ask you if you meant "he invented" or "he created". It does the same thing with "she stupid", however, asking if you meant "he stupid".
Sexism aside, I [...]

You know how Google asks "Did you mean…" when you put a misspelling in the search box? Well, if you put "she invented" or "she created" it will ask you if you meant "he invented" or "he created". It does the same thing with "she stupid", however, asking if you meant "he stupid".

Sexism aside, I don’t think I can muster up much confidence in an algorithm that things "she" isn’t a word.

Harvard has started something that reminds me of Squidoo, but it seems to be geared more toward academic topics. You can get yourself a “playlist” (like Squidoo’s lenses) and add articles to it from various sites. Possibly some of your sites. Those links will have an .edu in them.

Harvard has started something that reminds me of Squidoo, but it seems to be geared more toward academic topics. You can get yourself a “playlist” (like Squidoo’s lenses) and add articles to it from various sites. Possibly some of your sites. Those links will have an .edu in them.

I know YouTube videos are the new blog post, but am I the only one getting sick of having to watch a video when I just want to read a couple of paragraphs about a topic? I don’t want to see the tutorial video; I want to read instructions. I don’t want to listen to [...]

I know YouTube videos are the new blog post, but am I the only one getting sick of having to watch a video when I just want to read a couple of paragraphs about a topic? I don’t want to see the tutorial video; I want to read instructions. I don’t want to listen to you tell your idea in into your webcam with diagrams on a whiteboard; I want to read an article about it.

You know why? Because I can skim written text. I can’t skim a video. It’s like punishing me by making me sit there for it. Plus, I can’t crank up the sound on a video just anywhere like I can with text.

Surely a lot of our visitors must feel this way, too.

I’m in the Foldera beta. It’s one of 5 billion GTD online apps I tried before deciding to go with a Wordpress blog as a GTD system. It looks like a very clean, simple, Ajaxy set up. Pretty intuitive and simple. Basically, you create folders for projects. Each folder contains a calendar, emails, files you [...]

I’m in the Foldera beta. It’s one of 5 billion GTD online apps I tried before deciding to go with a Wordpress blog as a GTD system. It looks like a very clean, simple, Ajaxy set up. Pretty intuitive and simple. Basically, you create folders for projects. Each folder contains a calendar, emails, files you upload and tasks. You can view everything in a project, or view your collected tasks from all the project folders.

In short, it looks like a very simple way to actually do everything you need with GTD.

I wonder what it’s going to cost when it’s out of beta, though. Similar things I looked at today were around $5.

From next month, Google will no longer take adverts from companies which sell essays and dissertations – and the internet company has written to advertisers to tell them about the policy.

A nice sentiment, for sure – I’m not fond of the idea of kids essentially buying degrees while some very smart and hard-working people can’t [...]

From next month, Google will no longer take adverts from companies which sell essays and dissertations – and the internet company has written to advertisers to tell them about the policy.

A nice sentiment, for sure – I’m not fond of the idea of kids essentially buying degrees while some very smart and hard-working people can’t even afford tuition, and I support Google’s right not to advertise something they’re uncomfortable with because I do the same on my sites that run ads.

But I’m one little person. If I refuse to run your ad because I don’t like your service or it’s against my religion or I hate you, you can run your ad with a lot of other bloggers and get the same effect. You don’t need me. People do need Google to make it on the web. Once again, Google’s positioned itself as a near-monopoly, but it’s acting like a mom & pop shop.