My archive pages are screwed up, big time. They’re tossing memory errors and other assorted uglies at me. But honestly, browsing the archives sucks anyway. I suggest using the Lijit widget on the right sidebar just next to the BlogHer ad. The benefit of using that widget instead of the search ...

Lijit is a popular and well-respected search application for bloggers. Many sites, including this one, use it because it not only drastically improves upon the default WordPress search, but also because it allows searchers to pull content from sites within the blogger’s network, including soci...

Lijit is a company behind a clever little search widget with a great idea behind it: you put it on your blog, and instead of letting your users search only for your blog posts, it enables them to search your social networks, bookmarks, and all other kinds of interesting data you’ve created. To...

While venture capital is said to be very expensive these days, hard to obtain, and with questionable potential returns given a closed market for public offerings and multiples for mergers and acquisitions, companies on the periphery of blogging appear to still be hot. We saw Auttomatic acquire Inten...

Image by micahb37 via Flickr I’ve met a lot of people in my life. A lot. Many make a lasting impression on me.  Most make no impression on me. When I meet someone for the second time, it takes my brain a second or two to acknowledge that the recognition is true, and to connect the face with a...

I spent the last couple days with two people that I not only admire for who they are as people and what they have accomplished, but because they are both wildly more competent and knowledgeable about things that I want to gain competence and knowledge in. The concept of sucking is an interesting one...

Confession time. I didnt grow up in Boulder. I didnt even grow up in Colorado. Me? I was born in Fort Collins and moved to California when I was less than 2 years old. I grew up in California in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose. (My family also spent a lot of time in Mountain View and Palo Alto...

Image via Wikipedia Excellent Blog will become a leader in Social Media ! November 23, 2008 For years I have said that I needed to do certain things in life, but always allowing other things to take precedence. One of those things was finishing school. It has always been important to me, but life ha...

Image by micahb37 via Flickr Until I began to use Twitter and get more heavily involved in social media, I never heard the term “personal brand.” With more than 15 years in marketing (and more than 30 years in marketing myself), I certainly am aware of the concept of reputation managemen...

One of the best things about working at startups is that no matter how hard you try, there will always be at least one person that is smarter than you. Accept it. One of the best things about working in an early stage company is that you build relationships that are life long. Enjoy it. One of the b...