5 days ago

Submitted by Working Writer from Google Reader: Start: 2009-11-12 19:00 End: 2009-11-12 21:00November 2009 Web414 Meeting — Thursday, November 12th, 2009 — 7pmTopic: Running your business/freelance, etc.Tracy Apps and Ashe Dryden will lead a discussion about how you run your small business/freelance business. How do you handle invoices, taxes, liability, contracts (Read More)

6 days ago

43 Folders - I honor any project to write something — especially to write a long piece of fiction. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do but, like most people, I have always been too scared to attempt it.So, kudos.But, here’s the thing: it’s hard to start writing, and it’s almost as hard to keep writing. Believe me, I know. And, there (Read More)

2 days ago

Submitted by Working Writer from Google Reader: Like many others, the Open Book Alliance awaits the release on November 9 of a revised proposed settlement from Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers.  If repeated signals from Google and its partners over the last month are to be taken at face value, we don’t expect significant changes to the (Read More)

2 days ago

readwriteweb Some LinkedIn users will have noticed a change to the navigation and user interface of the LinkedIn.com website, announces a company blog post. The business-focused social network is in the process of rolling out an updated design that aims to improve and simplify site navigation while also offering a cleaner, less-cluttere (Read More)

7 days ago

mashable Confused about how to use Google Wave, the new Google product that combines messaging, wiki-like features and group collaboration into a single app? You’re not alone.To clear up the confusion, we recently published Google Wave: A Complete Guide, a feature-length article that explains Wave in plain English.Now Gina Trapani (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

Submitted by Avi from Google Reader: We’ve just received word that WordPress for iPhone 2 is now available on the App Store. Woohoo!A quick note about installation: WordPress for iPhone 2 is a new app, and the previous version won’t automatically update to 2.0. Installing it won’t overwrite any previous version you have installed. When you launch the new app, (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

Submitted by Working Writer from Google Reader: To keep the spirit of news innovation alive and burning brightly, it’s time for the second edition of GonzoCamp: Programming the future of news.It’s like a hack day, code sprint, barcamp, barn raising or many other tech-geek terms for unstructured events. This one-day event brings journalists, programmers, entrepreneurs, we (Read More)

May 27, 2009

Smashing Apps This is another post about useful wordpress plugins. There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But it’s totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give y (Read More)

Jun 16, 2009

Submitted by Working Writer from Google Reader: I came across this post, with a self explanatory title – “13 Most Important Things to do When Changing the Wordpress Theme“.  This is particularly relevant to me, since I am updating my theme right this moment.   And so, I thought, I’d just revisit the list items of that post with my own comments, since they are so fresh.Ta (Read More)

Sep 18, 2009

Submitted by Working Writer from Google Reader: An amazing collection of links to WordPress tutorials, themes & theme frameworks, hacks, plugins, galleries & inspiration and general resources. . (Read More)

Oct 01, 2009

Submitted by Working Writer from Google Reader: Alex Denning over at WPShout brings up an interesting point in his post titled Free WordPress Themes? Forget it. It’s Over. Basically, he argues that free WordPress themes aren’t getting the love and attention they used to, mostly due to commercial themes taking all the spotlight.So do I think free WordPress themes dead? (Read More)

Sep 29, 2009

WordPress Publisher Blog NASA has been using WordPress for a few years now, and recently the NASA Glenn Research Center launched a resource guide for WordPress development:The site’s goal is to be “The guide to implementing and using the WordPress Content Management System (CMS) with the NASA Web Accessible (CSS) template design on Glenn Research C (Read More)

Jun 23, 2009

Submitted by Working Writer from Google Reader: Almost two years ago I wrote a blog post titled “A look inside the WordPress database“.  While a lot of people enjoyed it (and, apparently still do, even though it’s a bit outdated), I think it could be greatly simplified.  And it will probably take you less time to understand WordPress database now than it would take you t (Read More)

Oct 16, 2009

Submitted by Working Writer from Google Reader: Outside of the WordPress.org theme repository and the GPL commercial theme vendors, there are few spots where you can download a variety of themes which do not contain some sort of sponsorship or encrypted code. One site still cranking out great, quality free themes is Themelab run by Leland. However, in most of the theme r (Read More)

Oct 14, 2009

Submitted by Working Writer from Google Reader: Paste the following code in your functions.php file in order to create the shortcode:function tweetmeme(){ return '';}add_shortcode('tweet', 'tweetmeme');Once done, you can display the Tweetmeme "retweet" button anywhere on your posts. In WordPress editor, make sure you are in HTML mode and insert the following:[tweet]When (Read More)

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