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We Should Try To Learn More From Other People
Back when I was at the university around 2002 I went to live in an apartment with three other students. I didn’t know them prior to moving there, but quickly we became good friends. Then one day I was leaving the building to walk to the university and I noticed one of my friends leaving the garage with a BMW ...
ProBlogger Track Details – Blog World Expo
Blog World and New Media Expo is a fantastic event for bloggers held every October in Las Vegas. This year there will be a full day of ProBlogger training in a ‘ProBlogger Track’ on the Thursday. Yesterday the full details of that track’s sessions were released on the BWE site. The four sessions through the day are based around 4 ...
Afghanistan, August, 2010
With four months left in the year, 2010 is already the deadliest year yet for U.S. troops in Afghanistan. 321 have been killed so far out of 485 total coalition deaths , compared with 313 deaths in all of 2009. As coalition troop size has increased, and moves have been made into Taliban strongholds, attacks are on the rise, and, ...
Gowalla Announces ‘Highlights’ Feature, Sends You To Your Happy Place
Gowalla today rolled out a new feature called ‘highlights’ and by using this feature users can now give little items to places they visit, marking them with useful icons to show off their importance. While the program offers basic items, such as “Best Cup” for cups of coffee, it also features some wacky options like “My Happy Place” and “Guilty ...
Start using bcToolkit for Basecamp reporting and get a free copy of REWORK
bcToolkit is a third-party extra that provides "detailed and accurate reporting services for your Basecamp data." Once you pay for your first month of bcToolkit, you'll get a free copy of REWORK from 37signals Here’s the deal, sign up for bcToolkit and you will automatically get a 30 day free trial to let you see how easy to use bcToolkit ...
How to Outsource Your Blog… Or Part of It
You don’t need to be a big-time blogger to need to outsource some aspect of your blog. A beginning blogger with a serious business plan might want to contract a designer to create a skin for their blog. A entrepreneurial blogger might want to outsource some writing, or have an agency provide social media strategy for the blog. There are ...
Convertible Debt vs. Equity
Seth Levine from Foundry Group touched off a debate on which is the best way to raise startup financing: convertible debt or equity. Paul Graham intentionally or not actually started things with a tweet, “Convertible notes have won. Every investment so far in this YC batch and there have been a lot has been done on a convertible note.” ...
Future Generations Steal from Themselves
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How to Suck at Writing, and then Write for the Biggest Blogs in the World
This is a guest post by Danny Wong. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Writing hasn’t always been a skill of mine. I rarely ever read when I was younger, and still had my father read me books for years after I had learned how to read for myself. So how did ...
A Cheaper Better Backup Solution?
After reviewing VaultPress by Automattic the creators of WordPress , there has been a lot of spirited debate online and off over how much one should pay to backup their WordPress blog. Although cheaper alternatives are available, very few match the backup frequency of VaultPress, save one which is blogVault. Created by Inactiv Media Solutions, blogVault offers users an inexpensive ...
