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Here is a quick post because my readers demand it ;) But seriously, thanks for the “push” – always nice to know that people want more :)
Well… related to my previous post How To Create A Viral Video – I ran into this series called Viral Video Film School. It’s a bit silly and sarcastic [...]

I just upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.6 and it has a lot of cool new features like photo captions, live theme previews and post revisions (similar to what you might be familiar with in Google docs). While reading the release post on the WordPress development blog I noticed this at the bottom of the [...]

Wondering how you can make the Top 10 Most Viral Videos list? Check out this video I found about how to create a popular viral video:

Mine’s doing great, got over a million hits and it just landed me a job at a hot new media firm.
Specific areas include:

Filming yourself sitting at your desk
Hurting yourself
Hurting others
Using [...]

Here is a quote I received earlier this week:

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
I thought it was motivating, with an interesting perspective. [...]

I saw this video the other day called Design Coding by The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) – pretty cool, it’s educational and fun :)

(via iJustine)
This is an excellent example of how to create a viral video. It was posted March 20, 2008 and it already has 84,071 views. He also has some more [...]

I was checking my web tracker logs and saw a few hits from this page. It looks like I’m nominated on this German website in the category “Most Valuable Business Website”. Although I’ve never heard of this website createordie.de before it’s an honor to be nominated :) I’m there along with some very popular websites.
I’m [...]

Just came across an interesting article: Who clicks on ads? (Revisited with data) about the majority of people that click on online ads. Some interesting points like:
..heavy clickers are:

More representative of lower income households than the average user.
Less educated than the average user (or from less-educated environments in the case of minors).
More likely to live [...]

I’ve been using this cool tool called Instapaper by Marco Arment for a few weeks now and it has helped me read articles that I probably wouldn’t have without this handy tool.
What does it do?
Well, according to the FAQ “Instapaper facilitates easy reading of long text content.” It does this through a “Read Later” [...]

I was so going to do that same research: Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100. I had been planning for a pretty long time to make a post about what blog platform the Technorati Top 100 blogs use. But it looks like I don’t need to anymore, somebody did the work for me [...]

I know, it’s a cliché… but I’ve been busy with other things ;) And it looks like my brilliant trick isn’t quite bullet-proof – although I have dozens of drafts in WordPress, another dozen of Notepad documents and also physical notepads with half-finished blog posts… But somehow I couldn’t find the time to finish these [...]