Why It WasWeb and Marketing

Retweeting is great in Twitter because it is 140 characters, in the blog sphere it is not so. When I started blogging I thought that it was a great idea to post other peoples’ posts which was relevant to my blog. There was two major things wrong with this:

1. It is stealing – Without gaining permission of the original author the act is stealing the IP of another person.

2. It was wasting people’s time – while in some ways it meant people could come to my single blog it also meant anyone who has alerts are seeing the same story multiple times.

If you do think someone’s blog is great than blog about why it is great or otherwise. Reposting is just adding to the clutter of the web, stealing IP (even if you have permission) and just a waste of time.

So when you consider WP-o-matic or Feed WP or whatever else think about if you are really adding to the value of the internet or just causing clutter.

To make it real simple here is what I would do:

1. Sign-up for a host account with http://inmotionhosting.com/ they are cheap and reliable. I have been with them for a year and not had any dramas. When I send requests to them they are really fast to respond, with-in an hour normally. I got their – Power – $US8.95/mo – Top Choice for Small Business. Use the free domain for like a personal blog.

2. Buy a domain off http://www.crazydomains.com.au/ $AU12.95 .com.au $AU12 .com. Cheaper the GoDaddy. I never again let my host register a critical domain. If you have problems with the host it is too much of a pain reclaim your domain. You can use http://www.toolnames.com or http://www.CreateMy.com.au to find a domain name.

3. Set crazydomains to point your domains to the immotionhosting DSN

4. Set up the domains as Add-on domains in the cPanel of your inmotionhosting account

5. Use Fantastico in cPanel to install WordPress. This is the very easiest way to install WP.

6. Setup your WP site. It takes seconds to setup pages and posts. Install the Google Analytics and All in One SEO Pack.

Yikes! Reuters announced in India an extremest group is getting one back at Western society by releasing cow pee soft drink. WHAM! TAKE THAT COKE! So while the Coke board is forming a new war room to take on the soon to be entrant to the market I am left wondering, in a population of over 1 Billion could something proclaiming to be deeply religious get off the ground. Just to put into perspective a 0.1% penetration is over a million people, 1% penetration is 100 million people. This is a country which is still very regious. So next time you go to the India restaurant to try some traditional Indian beverage you might be drinking Framer Joe’s Cow Pee.

So tonight I am sitting back thinking about all of my sites. In the past four to six months I have gone from not having a single site and struggling to use Wordpress to having a wide portfolio and releasing my first WordPress Mu site. WordPress IMHO is the best tool for any developer. Making sitewide changes could not be easier, and with exec-PHP making the flexible front-end for you web app could not be easier. This is why I now use WordPress for all my sites.

So just to take a bit of stock my sites are:

• http://www.jobfeedr.com – this little treasure is now using Wordpress as the CMS. The site is wonderful, it gets job feeds from a number of different sites and posts them to other channels. Soon the ability to add ads manually will be made aviliable.
• http://www.rsstotwitter.com – RSS to Twitter is a tool that takes RSS feeds and posts them to Twitter. The difference is the ease of it compared to the other ones which require OpenID. RSS to Twitter just needs to improve it’s page rank. RSS to Twitter also uses WordPress as the CMS.
• http://www.toolnames.com and http://www.CreateMy.com.au – Toolnames was the orginal site which went through several stages, first it was a site to call someone a tool, then it became a toolname generator, this proved to be popular and then came the dot com dot au version of toolnames known as createmy.com.au. Both Toolnames and CreateMy have recently had WordPress added as a CMS.
• http://www.whyitwas.com – My first ever WordPress site. This little ripper has been my one site where I have used WordPress as a blog.

There is some domains I have but there isn’t a site up for them yet.

All this time Michael Phelps tried to claim it was his routine that casued him to eat all of the below.

Now we know the truth