I just downloaded the preview version of Wordpress 2.5 and have been playing around with it this afternoon. It’s a major upgrade and I’m really pleased to see all the new features.

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This post has been in my drafts for a while but I figured this would be a good time to post it, thanks to Arrington’s recent post.

In case you haven’t noticed, a lot of companies and blogs seem to be linking less and less to external websites in favor of directing traffic to their own sites, networks, or affiliated sites. » Continue reading “Link Hoarding: How Google And Money have Changed the Linking Game”

For the last few months I was having a peculiar problem with Firefox: When I tried to delete a post, page, or comment by pressing the delete link in the Wordpress admin panel, nothing would happen. I would have to switch to Internet Explorer anytime I wanted to delete posts.

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I feel like I’ve been neglecting this blog lately - thanks for sticking around - I’ll try to catch up and start posting more regularly (hopefully better stuff, too).

Google just announced the launch of Ad Manager, leveraging their previous acquisition of Double Click. It’s kind of a big deal and it will only further strengthen Google’s grip on the internet ad market. That’s unless of course people eventually become weary of Google’s “house of candies” (think Hansel and Gretel), but I doubt that.

There’s some talk of Google reaching 90% market share (Skrenta, Graywolf , JC) and that’s not an unlikely scenario (think that’s crazy? gas is $4.00, gold is $1,000 / ounce. We live in crazy times.) Now that Ask has thrown in the towel and Yahoo and MSN are heading toward an awkward bureaucratic marriage, there’s little to stop Google.

» Continue reading “Google Ads Unstoppable”

If you run a Wordpress blog, you know how tedious it is to find and add images to your posts. You can either buy stock photos from sites like istockphoto or you can search Flickr Creative Commons. If you go with Creative Commons, you still have to find the right photo, download it, upload it to your site, add the right attribution links, etc. - it’s fairly time consuming.

Enter Photo Dropper.

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