Darth prefers the X-mas to the X-wing
Monthly Archive for December, 2009
I have to admit, I love The Sound of Music. Sappy, musical mush that I remember watching with the fam every Christmas. I bitched about it as a kid but have to admit to being able to sing along with all of the songs. [I stop short at the curtain flavored leiderhosen].
He is a twist on the best song of the bunch. From Pomplamoose:
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Sucks isn't what I would say, more like the equivalent of a warm, steamer dropped on my chest in ones and zeros. Moist, smelly and something you'd rather not touch
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Oh thank you for the tax write off you got in my name for the little children of schmukinovia
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Please email this to all relatives you get stuck doing tech support for. And coworkers. And yourself. And then remind them.
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Please email this to all relatives you get stuck doing tech support for. And coworkers. And yourself. And then remind them.
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I heard somebody predict that USF is one good scandal from an implosion. They were thinking student athlete/ grades/ shoegate/ etc. Not Douche Leavitt. When are we gonna stop giving a bye on this "manly" bullshit in sports.
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In case you have sucky hosting or other issues where you have to not use subdomains [a better and more elegant solution] for your WordPressMU install and its blogs
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podcast plugin for wordpress with big community
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Change the url thatpages point to in WP navigation
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Page management to order and rearrange page order and other features in WP
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Nifty theme with 13 editable areas and flexible for cms use
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Just what the name says, you in Orlando and use WP, join. Now.
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Better search tool for WP sites. Old, included search sucks, this allows greater flexibility and better, deeper search
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word with all the toolbars, example of not masking the complex with simplicity
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WordPress.tv is Your Visual Resource for All Things WordPress
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New way of wordpress themes from WordCamp Orlando
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From Geno Church's talk on People as Killer Apps at WordcampOrlando
From Podcast to Print by JC Hutchins
On how you leverage your content by giving it away to garner an audience and earn a living from it. Podcasted his book, gave away pdf’s and got more work. Your content has value so take care of it.
Buy his book, here or below
Pics from the Flickr Group so far:
More nifty bits. @jpeterson created a twitter list of attendees: http://twitter.com/jpetersen/wordcamporlando/ . And Chris Scott created a new WordPress Usersgroup for O-Town. Join up to learn and talk. He has slides from his talk at the bottom.
Here’s my notes for the last two tracks:
FAIL: Why Online Products Don’t Succeed Dan MAccarone, Hardy Candy Shell & Adnrew Zipern, Rocket Fuel
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have asked for a faster horse” – Henry Ford. BS, used to justify things that have no opportunity. Keep in mind he did create something that went faster than a horse. Implication is need to parse the needs heard from computers.
New success is cloaking complexity in simplicity. See Apple, new Google homepage.
Bad stuff, too many features:
Good Stuff:
Google hiding under simplicity:
The complexity revealed after a mouse movement:
Evolution:
- Friendster > MySpace > Facebook
Startac > Palm w/ cell > iPhone
Success despite bad design: MySpace, YouTube, Craigslist
Examples what got it right: hulu, netflix, iphone, google, pentacle, foursquare
Fail comes from feature creep, lack of single and simple vision or forced opportunity.
Buddypress – John James Jacoby
Bigger than WordPress MU
New features coming
- find help: http://buddypress.org/forums/
- update to help: http://codex.buddypress.org
- bug tracking: http://trac.buddypress.org
originated as a user profile plugin
Sites using buddypress:
http://tdi.vw.com/leaderboard/
http://pro.gigaom.com/
http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/
Slides from Chris Scott’s “You’re Doing It Wrong”
You’re Doing it Wrong – WordCamp Orlando
View more documents from Chris Scott.
Here is the first bits of Wordcamp Orlando goodness from the morning sessions. You can also check out the google wave feed, just search [ with:public wordcamp orlando ]. Will add more photos from the Flickr pool and any videos as I go along.
People Are The Killer App from Geno Church and Eric Dodds
WordCamp Orlando 2009 – Geno Church, originally uploaded by seanosh.
People don’t trust ads, they trust people.
90% of word of mouth is done person to person, keller fay talk track report 2009.
“Reframe the conversation”. campaign vs. movement. campaign has beginning and end, movement goes on as long as people want, C – war language, M – about moving people, C – tired and ignored, M – about exciting people, C- about listen to me, M – about being apart of something
Create a barrier to entry to “get some skin in the game” for members. Keeps total numbers down but up the passionate participants to near 100% level.
Essence: allow the community to take hold and ownership of the community itself. Allow the community to develop itself and drive leadership and vision from within. Use community as tool to discover real marketing slices and to develop products directly from inout of those passionate about the product. Sales increased in affected areas,
build it like money will run out tomorrow.
Slow build = sustainibilty
High Performance WordPress – Barry Ambramson
WP is Fast and Scalable
Runs through the versions of installed WP, servers and types of hosting etc
WP Supercache is good
VPS [virtual private server]
- PHP Opcode Cache: renders code and then caches it so it doesn’t have to compile again [x cache, etc]
- WordPress persistent object cache
- CDN
From other tracks:
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