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This year Christina issued a slew of lame excuses and copped out of riding her bike in the Tour de Cure. This would’ve been her third year. Instead, I am picking up the slack. I have committed to getting my fat butt off the couch for at least one day and doing some physical activity all in the name of eventually reducing the amount dollars we spend on “the sugar”. And maybe helping out a lot of research and wonderful things the American Diabetes Association does with the flow I am going to beg from you in three sentences.
How this works is I sign up to ride. I pretend to train by riding my bike occasionally down to the Starbucks, splash my pits with water and ride home to a proud Christina. Then you give money in the hopes [the beg] that I actually can trek 30 miles on my bike. Then I ride on February 28th with a slight detour to a Starbucks, where you can join me, while I wait for the bunch to come back around so I can join to ride back to a proud Christina.
You can help me in this endeavor by clicking the link below and whip out the c-card. Plop down a few bucks and help me fix the diabetris.
http://main.diabetes.org/goto/funkeemunkeeland
Thank You for your support
Tim
P.S. I waited to the last minute for this and am willing hope somebody hook me up with enough to get me over the $150 mark or I don’t get to ride.
On a technical note, I apologize if you got this in more than one email or I added this to your FB spam.
This is where you should be Friday night.
After they clear the wreck that is the Robert Cray Band* from the stage Dread Clampitt will be the best thing to hear in O-Town Friday night. That is right. [must disclose good HS friend and Norse god Balder is the mandolin player].
What the hell do they play. I don’t know. It is the type underground Americana that seems to be the last relic of real rock n roll attitude, preserves of American musical taste and the last batch of truly original musical thinking. But to name it, well, it’s not Britney Spears. Sounds like Bluegrass. Smells like a peach preserved in a jar full of moonshine. Just call it a damn good time and come hang out with me at The Plaza
You wanna taste, here you go. See you there
Dread Clampitt
Oh yeah, there is a main act. Try em here. But come for the Dread.
Scythian
* Don’t be a d-bag and please note the irony. The fact I know who he is gives enough respect. Back off.
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:
Don’t know what an Orbbies exactly is but I am trying to win one. Placed in the category of Personal Blogs, the FunkeeMunkeeLand is competing for glory, honor and random prize junk. So, go vote. Now.
Here is the submission link: O Sentinel Orbbies
Will update when the voting link is live. It is live, go here and vote for FunkeeMunkeeLand in the Personal Blog category!! Be sure to also vote in the link for FML as best overall.
This has ordained the back wall on the stores near my house for a long time. I wonder if this is the early work of some one. I really wonder about those floating eyes. Are they trying to tell us a profound message about love or just that it was the only direction they knew how to paint the eyes looking? If they paint over it I hope they leave the floating eyes.
Sam and Grandpa in stride. Like they own the place. Neither knowing where the hell they’re going. Three steps later Grandma and I are yelling “Hey, over here. Yo. Back here.” Of course the place turns to see the ass clowns that just lost there family. Or to make sure it wasn’t their family yelling.
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