I hang out a lot in AboutUs’s chatroom where I help with pro follows, creating articles and adding tags. Sometimes, I find some really cool people who are promoting their websites. Today, I found one such individual and I asked them to send me an intro about their site so I could post it to [...]

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An A-Team movie finally coming together?

Proposals and scripts for an A-Team movie have been going around for over a decade, but now it finally looks like it’s going to happen for real. The main cast seems set: Liam Neeson taking over George Peppard’s role as Hannibal Smith; Bradley Cooper in Dirk Bennedict’s role of Templeton Peck; Quinton “Rampage” Jackson in [...]

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After Lawsuit Threat, LyricWiki Is With Wikia

A recent article in The Register called US music publishers sue online lyrics sites. TechDirt also covered this in their article Music Publishers Now Suing Lyrics Sites And Their Execs. One of the sites included was LyricWiki. Basically this lawsuit would shove the site in with those who burn and sell music without a license.
Also, [...]

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Two Ways to Retrieve Your WordPress Password

WordPress Tutorial: Sometimes you forget. You might find it annoying, but when there are so many things to do and remember on a daily basis, some things slide through your mind and out your ear, like perhaps your password to log into you admin panel for WordPress. This article will explain three ways for you [...]

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ScholarPress – Combining Education With WordPress

ScholarPress ( @scholarpress on Twitter)allows users to be able to run a class management on your WordPress installation. Yes, classes, like in class schedules, biblographies, and assignments. The plugin is WordPress Mu supported ScholarPress will be presented at WordCamp New York City 2009.
ScholarPress has been in the works since 2007 and has several staff:
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WordPress Plugin Review: WordPress Audio Player

I had been looking for a decent player for a client’s website and tried quite a few until I came across WordPress Audio Player. The plugin was developed by Martin Laine It is currently on version 2.0 beta 6. The plugin WILL work in WordPress 2.8.6.
To install, you can simply look up ‘WordPress Audio Player’ [...]

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Edit This Entry Template Tag

WordPress Tutorial:
The ‘edit this entry’ template tag, or edit_post_link gives the blog owner and any other users with editing privileges to have a quick link to click on that will allow the user to edit an article. Users who do not have this capability, like your readers who are not registered members will not be [...]

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Fan Fiction’s Predictive Value for Nielsen Ratings

On January 15, 2009, CSI had one of its highest rated episodes all season. On that day, people published 26 new pieces of fan fiction, the most stories posted on the same day as an episode had aired. On September 25, 2008, CSI had it third lowest ratings day all season and people posted [...]

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Review: Strange Things Happen by Stewart Copeland

Strange Things Happen: A Life with The Police, Polo and Pygmies by Stewart Copeland hits bookstores today, September 29.
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I feel a little bit like pulling a Jedi Mind Trick here to start off this review. Or that perhaps Stewart Copeland has pulled one over on all of us readers, or that he should [...]

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Gaming the Twitter system… or how not to market on Twitter

There are ways to market yourself on Twitter and to market your brand. My preference as a user of Twitter is if I mention a brand, they comment at me. I don’t necessarily want them to follow me with me following them in return. My comment is probably a one off and I likely won’t [...]