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6 months of silence

July 22, 2010

Image via Wikipedia I have not written a blog post in this blog for 180 days. That’s a very long time not to write, and as the days go by, my ‘fear’ of going back to writing has grown. There are many excuses I can use as to why I have been so silent, reasons [...]

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WordCamp NYC – why Code IS poetry

November 28, 2009

Image via Wikipedia WordCamp NYC finished 2 weeks ago but it was only this weekend that I had a chance to properly digest and review all the notes and posts from the event. WordPress is one of my favorite online products out there. It is really enough to see Matt Mullenweg in action to really [...]

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WordCamp NYC – BuddyPress in Local/HyperLocal Journalism (NJ no less)

November 20, 2009

Image by cloneofsnake via Flickr I wrote this as a draft when live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  but have not had a chance to publish since. This was one of the best sessions, demonstrating how BuddyPress was used to create a social networking to support citizen journalism. Speakers:  Ted Mann, @turkeymonkey What’s HyperLocal – neighborhood [...]

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WordCamp NYC 2009 – How to Choose Your Dream Theme

November 14, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I am live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  please excuse any typos or less polished text. Speaker: Adria Richards If you are a beginner blogger, this is very useful for you. If you are not, move on to the next post…. Everybody wants a great looking site, looks easy, but it’s not. If [...]

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WordCamp NYC 2009 – Using WordPress as Library Catalogs

November 14, 2009

Image via CrunchBase I am live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  please excuse any typos or less polished text. Speaker: Casey Blisson “wordpress is everything that libraries are not” Blisson opens.  The cost of library software is really high (Endeca is mentioned). WordPress is easy to use, easy to install, easy extend – plugins is an [...]

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WordCamp NYC 2009 – Using WordPress as Research tool

November 14, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I am live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  please excuse any typos or less polished text. Speaker Jeremy Boggs Information management: how do we aggregate information and make sense of it? Back in the old days we had notes. now we have that and delcious, twitter, other aggregators. “if you are using all [...]

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WordCamp NY 2009 – the only thing to make me get up at 7am on Sat Morning

November 13, 2009

Image via CrunchBase 4 months ago I attended the San Fransisco WordCamp to celebrate my favorite software’s 6th birthday. This was a 2 day event bursting with really fun and light and yet inspiring sessions, on which I reported here in my blog. And that is why, tomorrow, following a crazy workweek with an avg [...]

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4 things to learn from Jeremiah Owyang

August 27, 2009

Image by thekenyeung via Flickr Jeremiah Owyang, a leading Forrester analyst who has build himself a solid name in the Social Media world, is leaving Forrester to focus on a business of his own. In ‘the year of Social Media’ where social media value is widely recognized and everyone is a Social Media enthusiast, building [...]

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WordCamp Blogfest: Tim Ferriss on How to Blog without killing yourself

May 30, 2009

Image by shelisrael1 via Flickr * 2 disclaimers before you are starting to read the post: first is that I am live blogging from wordcamp, so please excuse typos and drafty nature of posts. second is that this is an uber excited post on Tim, he won my heart, so this post may be a [...]

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Thank you Zemanta!

May 20, 2009

Image via CrunchBase In past few weeks I have been posting more frequently and with richer content (more links, more images) – this is largely thanks to Zemanta that I have installed on my Broweser and that automatically pulls relevant content into my posts: links, tags, photos – making the post richer, and saves me [...]

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