Posted on 31 March 2008 by DanielthePoet
In my ongoing effort to bring “fluff” to the Feast, I offer up my first installment of Things to hate in ’08. Since most of you all know me for the hard-hitting analytical nuggets that I drop like a B-52 over Nagasaki, you might be taken aback. I ask that you bear with me, grab a spoon, and enjoy the fluff.
10. Baseball
The season hasn’t even started, unless you consider spring training to be part of the season, and my hatefest of the national pastime is already in midseason form.
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Posted on 31 March 2008 by DanielthePoet
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Mad Men on AMC
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Breaking Bad tv show on AMC
HBO has made a legitimate name for itself with great shows in the past like The Sopranos.
Such series not only raise the corporate bottom line but also build a loyal following that benefit the channel's other products as well.
The lesson seems to have been learned well at AMC, the American Movie Classics channel. Right now AMC is offering two relatively new shows that deserve our attention: Mad Men and Breaking Bad. Continue Reading
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Posted on 30 March 2008 by DanielthePoet
Today's panel is led by John Pozadzides. Panel members include Matt Mullenweg, Liz Strauss, Aaron Brazell, and Mark Ghosh.
Note: the following are summarizations, not direct and/or complete quotes.
Why do you need a blog?
Aaron: Transparency is key in today's business world.
Matt Mullenweg asks the room, "how many of you read blogs?" Everyone raises their hand. "How many of you read press releases?" Six. Point made.
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Posted on 30 March 2008 by DanielthePoet
Christ Smith has just taken the stage. We will begin coverage immediately. Please refresh this page to see more coverage as it unfolds.
Chris Smith specializes in local optimization. He contributes to SearchEngineLand.com and WebProNews.com.
Optimizing Your Blog
Beef up your internal hierarchical linking structure
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Posted on 30 March 2008 by DanielthePoet
Aaron Brazell from B5 Media and Technosailor.com:
Categories and Tags can coexist. Aaron exclusively uses tags to help new visitors find valuable older content.
Can you have too many tags? Many tags are more easily picked up by Technorati. It's easier to explore related content with more tags. It's easier to find various formats (podcasts, video, photos, text) with tags. You can't have too many tags.
What is GPL and why is it important to WordPress?
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Posted on 30 March 2008 by DanielthePoet
We're live at Day Two of Dallas WordCamp.The WordPress Podcast is recording live from Frisco Town Hall. On the panel is Jonathan Bailey, Charles Stricklin, Mark Jaquith, Lorelle VanFossen and Mark Ghosh.
Matt Mullenweg just showed up to join the panel discussion about WordPress 2.5 and plugin performance.
Matt: To determine which plugins to use for which versions, be sure to review the ratings and number of downloads on the Plugin Directory and also check the Support Forum.
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Posted on 29 March 2008 by DanielthePoet
Well, it's finally here! Several hundred bloggers from Texas and surrounding areas are here to network and learn from some of the biggest WordPress gurus. Everyone will be following @wcdallas to keep the twitter chain going during the conference.
More to come.
Below is where I'm live blogging from WordCamp:
So far, CoveritLive.com has not been functioning properly for me. You can check out my WordCamp updates on Twitter.
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Posted on 28 March 2008 by Gary Karbon
Since the day our earliest ancestors pressed their hands on a cave wall in Altamira and Lascaux and sprayed paint on them we tried to improve the control over our fate by manipulating it first in a symbolic domain.
We proved to ourselves that we could hunt that mammoth or the saber-toothed tiger by first depicting it killed in a cave painting.
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Posted on 28 March 2008 by Gary Karbon
Walker Percy is supposed to be a "Southern" writer and he is so in many ways. But still there is more Kafka and Kierkegaard in him than Faulkner and Tennessee Williams, especially in this first novel that won him the National Book Award for Fiction in 1962.
"The Moviegoer" is the story of Binx Bolling, a well-to-do stock broker down in New Orleans with nothing much to worry about – at the surface. He is a well-educated, well-mannered 30 year old single man who enjoys going to the movies and serial-dating his secretaries. Continue Reading
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Posted on 27 March 2008 by Gary Karbon
A Plot Hole You Can Drive a Truck Through
(WARNING: plot points revealed)
Some movies have such blatant plot holes that you wonder how they ever get financed and done. Rendition (2007) directed by Gavin Hood is one such flick.
The film is about the secret renditions of suspected terrorists by CIA. It is well acted by such A-list actors as Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin, and other serious talent like Peter Sarsgaard and Omar Metwally.
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Posted on 27 March 2008 by Bobby Ozuna
As ironic as it may sound, I often struggle with this whole self-publishing process—being I’m no different than you or the next person. I spent the time alone (like you) soul-searching and meditating, pondering and simply thinking about the choice to release my own title and in the end I was pleased with why I chose to take this particular literary path. And here I am responsible for a weekly column to help offer something insightful, helpful and motivational to all those would-be authors working to publish and promote their novels—and in the end—it’s harder than the actual book creation process.
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In my ongoing effort to bring “fluff” to the Feast, I offer up my first installment of Things to hate in ’08. Since most of you all know me for the hard-hitting analytical nuggets that I drop like a B-52 over Nagasaki, you might be taken aback. I ask that you bear with me, grab a spoon, and enjoy the fluff.
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