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There are many people talking about what the upcoming year will bring for bloggers, and while I see some great opportunities opening up for people, I also see that 2009 will be hard to monetize in any other way than affiliate programs and CPA advertising. If you are depending on CPC or CPM advertising, you’ll [...]

Deb Ng, of the well known Freelance Writing Jobs and I have launched a new blog called Kommein. It will be used for both of us to talk about community management and becoming and succeeding as a Community Manager. We have already published a dozen posts on the topic ranging from the definition of a [...]

For the last few months, I have been working away on College Crunch, and one of the things that sticks out most so far in my time there is how much work there is to do. Every time we finish one section, on post, one page, or one idea, there are one thousand more that [...]

So if you follow WordPress news at all, you may have heard about a crazy thing happening right now where Automattic removed around two hundred themes from WordPress.org’s theme directory. Many of these themes were removed as they didn’t fit with Matt’s vision of the GPL. Some themes were released freely, under the GPL but [...]

During my time working with PicApp, I mentioned how useful a WordPress plugin would be to quickly embed images from PicApp onto my blog posts, to which they responded, “we are already in the beginning stages of working on one.” Their understanding of the niche they were trying to fill was part of the reason [...]