In Which I Give Advice to J.W. Richard of Mandrake Society Radio [#wcdfw09]
There’ve been quite a few folks who’ve come up to me after my various forays onto the the stage here at WordCamp Dallas this weekend with specific questions as to when they should try to monetize, and how. The most common class of questions has come from folks who have emerging voices, that fall into the category of less than 50,000 or less than 100,000 monthly pageviews each month. To sort of collate those answers into one spot, I’ll delve into that here in a series of posts profile th...
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DB Ferguson Talks Fansite Curation [No Fact Zone, #wcdfw09]
DB Ferguson’s (the curator of the Stephen Colbert fansite “No Fact Zone”doing a talk right now about her experiences as a fan-blogger, and ways to survive and thrive. A lot of her advice is very common-sense for those who’ve been blogging professionally for a while, but bear repeating: Become best friends with your web-host. Reach out to publishers and producers who carry products related to your niche, it can often result in exclusive access. “Grow a pair and get after it,” as ...
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Having a Blast Today at #WCDFW09
The show has been a blast so far – I’m sitting in the speaker’s lounge right now writing up a couple posts for release today and tomorrow, but I wanted to fire off a quick one to recap the day and point to the highlights so far. Liz Strauss did an awesome talk this morning as she dissected John P’s blog. John’s blog is particularly plain, but as he said, surprisingly popular. Liz lead the live crowd-sourced suggestions of improvement to the site, and it came out particularly ...
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Project Natal: Real-Time Motion Capture for the Masses There is some actual hot news coming out of the E3 conference today – a little something Microsoft has cooked up on the Xbox 360 platform called “Project Natal.” The technology is being likened to both Minority Report as well as the “beginnings of SkyNet or The Ma...
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