Archive for the 'Day 1' Category

Late night report

« 22 July 2007 | 1:10 | 2007, Day 1, WordCamp | 1 Comment »

What happens when a few hundred attendees invade nearby restaurants… confusion, and I ended up eating at some Arab place with Charles, Lorelle, Aarron Brazeil and a number of others, that at this time I can’t remember. One reason might be the party afterwards at Lucky #13… It was a great time of BSing, excuse [...]



Whitehat SEO Tips for Bloggers

« 21 July 2007 | 18:19 | 2007, Day 1, Presentation, WordCamp Live | 24 Comments »

Shows an example of a Web Owner who thinks that Google hates his website.
“weak magnets are lose.” - this guy claims he’s being oppressed by Google. Censorship!
If you view source on the page you find a text area full of just text. Hundreds of words, in a 20 pixel box.



Designing the Obvious

« 21 July 2007 | 17:00 | 2007, Day 1, Presentation, WordCamp Live | 4 Comments »

Total Improved Presentation. through away planned, and wrote a new one.
What makes an obvious blog?
Striping out features
Reducing form elements to focus a page.
But they don’t relate to blogs
Wore the coat, so he’s a professional speaker….
But the two main ideas for blogs

Building only what’s necessary
Servicing the important elements



Getting Involved with WordPress

« 21 July 2007 | 15:53 | 2007, Day 1, Presentation, WordCamp Live | 2 Comments »

Lloyd Budd and Mark Jaquith are two Open Source veterans who will be covering how you can pitch in with various aspects of WordPress.org whether or not you can spell PHP. WordPress is a product of the hundreds of people who have pitched in before you, so if you’ve considered giving back to the community [...]



Blog Monetization

« 21 July 2007 | 15:00 | 2007, Day 1, Presentation, WordCamp Live | 1 Comment »

I’m in ur blogz grabbin’ us kash!
Finding money (if you want it!) buried in your blog
b5media is a VC backed company, a blog network.
A quick story about his bow chacka bow wow situation, and how his twitter was misinturpreted.