Lightening Up The Travel Gear
Last week at bpmNEXT was my first solo outing with the new blogging setup: Google Nexus 7 tablet, Logitech Bluetooth keyboard, and WordPress app for Android. I was also working on a white paper for a client, so had to edit and view documents in Word and PowerPoint formats, for which I use use the [...]
Google, If You Think I’ll Move From Reader to Another Google Product, Drop Dead
Just got the news that Google Reader will be turned off July 1. Realistically, I should’ve moved after the first time they brain-damaged it and I railed about it, but I stupidly stuck to it. Now I’m sorry. I’m not the only one, Om Malik says it is his second most used Google application after Gmail. [...]
Check on Your SaaS Company’s Hosting Provider, Avoid Firehost
My CNCCookbook blog is experiencing it’s second outage so far this month. That’s a cause for visitor unhappiness and potentially lost business. I use Page.ly, because I believe in SaaS services. CNCCookbook is bootstrapped, and I try not to spend any of my time at all doing something that I can easily have done for [...]
Gaining the Wisdom of Crowds in a Bootstrapped SaaS Company
When you’re bootstrapping a small company, sometimes it’s hard to do the things larger organizations take for granted, like making sure you’re listening well enough to your customers. On the other hand, you can take advantage of your nimble nature and the availability of some great technology to do some things that even a lot [...]
Why WordPress ISN’T A Good Choice For Your Website
Last month I did a guest article for Jemima Gibbons monthly newsletter on Freshbusinessthinking.com about Social Media Monitoring and Analytics. In that same newsletter Nikki Pilkington argued why WordPress is a good choice for your webs…
Product or Platform?
Just read this lengthy discussion of the dynamics of the ‘war’ between WordPress and Movable Type for the hearts and minds of bloggers – written by a former Movable Type product manager (and current partner) but in a very evenhanded fashion. There’s a great deal of information here and I recommend reading the entire post, [...]
Trouble in WordPress Land. Here’s the Band-Aid
If you run a WordPress blog and can’t get into your Admin Panel today, you’re not alone. Or to be more specific, you can get in for a second, then the page blanks out. If you are fast enough to click on a function in that second, you’re lucky – or if you know the [...]
Retiring Ecto
I have used Ecto to write my blog posts for almost as long as I’ve been writing this blog. I just like having an offline editor to write with and doing so gives me the added benefit of having an offline archive of everything I have published, plus Ecto handles images really well and like [...]
Vox Shutting Down
Six Apart is shutting down their Vox blogging service at the end of September. I’m surprised it has taken this long… I, like most people, never got why Vox even launched in the first place but it’s a great lesson in product portfolio management. Vox was originally pitched as a blogging platform that embraced video [...]
Column 2 Now on PressHarbor
I’ve been seeing some performance problems with this blog, and have moved it over to PressHarbor on the advice of my friend Joey, who uses it for his very popular blog that sees a lot more traffic that I do. I’ve also changed the theme to a cleaner look that supports a few additional features [...]
