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I have been poking around for some time looking for marketing tips for my blog while also trying to come up with my own ideas. I follow a ton of people and noticed a post on twitter the other day from Chris Brogan, 100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media. Chris is definitely an expert [...]

I have been working with Mark Bockenstedt who has created a Plurk updater based on a similar updater used for Twitter. Mark used the Twitter updater as a base and then updated it with a PlurkAPI allowing him to send post information to Plurk.
This is a great idea in my opinion. People are starting to [...]

I have been working with Mark Bockenstedt who has created a Plurk updater based on a similar updater used for Twitter. Mark used the Twitter updater as a base and then updated it with a PlurkAPI allowing him to send post information to Plurk.
This is a great idea in my opinion. People are starting to [...]

I have wanted to set up an IRC channel for the website. I plan to have a video stream eventually (very distant future) and I wanted to have the chat channel up and running when I am ready for that. I have looked at a number of options and in the end I feel Wyldryde [...]

I have been working on this site more with the back end theme options that posting in the past week. You must all know by now that I have been working off site and that’s adding about 3 hours to my commute everyday. That’s taking time away from my TheSleepyGeek time.
So now that I have [...]

I now feel hugely privileged to share my blog posts on Lockergnome. I have been blogging on and off for a couple of years. I really started to get into it on a daily basis (please ignore the last 4 days!) about a month ago. I am having a blast doing it and have been [...]

I have been waiting for the new Wicketpixie theme from Chris Pirillo for a couple of weeks. He has released the new version of it and I have installed it on my website.
NOW! I need to configure it There are so many options and possibilities with this theme that I am a little [...]

I have had RSS setup for sometime with the default WordPress settings. It worked great except that there are little options. People have been subscribed but I have no way of telling how many. Either I wasn’t looking in the right places or the feature built in just doesn’t carry the information. So many people [...]

I have been waiting for Chris to release his new social media theme called WicketPixie for a couple of weeks and it looks like he might have to put that off for a bit while he helps out his folks. So try and get something working that looks a little nicer than the plain one [...]

I am always looking for good plug-ins for WordPress. I have been using WP for a long time to blog and have tried to keep it simple because I am of the opinion that “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”. I have been talking with some colleagues and fellow bloggers and one of the [...]