Social Networks

🔌 A few plugins appeared on…

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Dan Knauss

🔌 A few plugins appeared on my radar this week, and if you weren't aware of their existence either, they're worth a look: Content embedded from external sites such as YouTube or Twitter is loaded immediately when visitors access your…

😶 “Mainstream social media is harmful…

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Dan Knauss

😶 "Mainstream social media is harmful because it puts a single company in control of the human social experience and places them in the role of cultural censor." If this statement strikes a chord with you, then you might want…

Kyle Chayka has an interesting thinkpiece in…

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Brian Krogsgard
Kyle Chayka has an interesting thinkpiece in The Nation about the ways content management systems have shaped and will continue to influence the business and politics of media organizations. With public opinion turning against social networks while "the market grows for…

Success in business is not just…

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Brian Krogsgard
Success in business is not just what you know but who you know. "Great programming doesn’t equal great sales," according to Chris Lema. He suggests ten practices he has found helpful to leverage the power of networking. Some of my…

The web we have to save

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Brian Krogsgard

Hossein Derakhshan went to jail in Iran because he dared publish. Now he says we are giving away the web and that we have to save it. Just one passionate segment from his moving longform story: But hyperlinks aren’t just…

A recommendation engine for independent WordPress blogs

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Brian Krogsgard

The story I wrote this morning on Medium (see details of my experiment) has blown up. I've been looking at referrals and stats and tried to determine where the traffic is coming from. The initial response I got was probably…

A refreshed Post Status

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Brian Krogsgard
Post Status has been iterating quite a bit over the last six months since it launched. However, not everyone noticed. I'm excited to launch a redesign that reflects the changing purpose that Post Status serves. It started as a link…
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