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Images for Blogging Sites

One of the main things that bloggers face every day is finding photos to accompany blog post that are free from copyright. Sadly it is a jungle out there, and with millions of photos on the net you often have no way of tracking down the source, and even when you find a photo you think has been made available

Is CNN Calling For Curbs On Free Speech?

On July 23, 2010, CNN anchors Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discussed on air the idea that bloggers should be somehow “held accountable” or perhaps regulated in some way. Here's the video of that exchange. It’s no secret that CNN and other so-called mainstream media outlets, both broadcast and print, have had for some time now an ongoing loss of

I Guess It’s Not My Data…

So today I got a client's new website up and running. They had a service that basically built their website for them, which really wasn't working for them. I ended up changing the whole service. Before I did, I looked for a way to get all the photos off the old server. They had no FTP, no file manager and

A New Kind Of Comment Spam

I and others have been noticing a new kind of blog spam. Essentially relevant comments, being written by real people but linking to spam sites. I have noticed an increased number of these types of comments.

Why “I” choose Movable Type over WordPress

I can sum it up in one word “Security” I have never had a MT install exploited. Cannot say the same for Wordpress. I missed one of their frequent security updates and my mom’s blog got exploited in less than 2 days after the security patch was issued by WP.

Gizmodo should be banned from all Media Events!

Andy McCaskey and I just spent a week in Vegas working CES. We busted our butts did not get much sleep in fact from Monday to Thursday it was a whole 14 hours for me.

Gawker Media is now Old Media

I had to laugh today when I read Gawker Media is going to pay performance bonuses to Bloggers on their network based on the traffic the drive to the site makes me really sit back and ask why?