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Don’t take freedom for granted. Even in the world’s greatest country, freedom of speech is being challenged every single day in our courts. We’ve lost so many of our sons and daughters in the fight for freedom – do your…

I’ve got 36 friends on Facebook, 122 connections on LinkedIn, 178 Members in my MyBlogLog community, a couple dozen on MySpace, about 60 friends on Yahoo! Instant Messenger, 20 on AOL Instant Messenger and a whopping 951 contacts on Plaxo!…

I have guilt. No – it’s not guilt that I should have spent a couple bucks on a stock photo instead of taking a photo of myself. It’s guilt that I haven’t been participating in my social networks. Google+ hasn’t…

I’ve been a huge fan of Plaxo ever since I saw it for the first time. I maintain address books online and offline in about a dozen places, including my cell phone. In addition I have a LinkedIn account. Keeping…

I made a slight modification to my page layouts today. I’ve read on John Chow’s blog and on Problogger’s blog that positioning your advertisement within the body of a post can result in a dramatic increase in revenue. Dean is…

My first sponsored post is for Prapta, a social networking website that notes “Everything In Life is Here!” They may also be the first to be able to claim “Everything in Social Networking and Web 2.0 is Here!” These folks…

In the past, I’ve been a fan of 37 Signals. I believe that they were ahead of their day in user interface design and simplicity. Their book, Getting Real, still has an impact in how I develop, design, and build…

For two and a half years I worked with Renée at a Newspaper Database Marketing firm in Denver, Colorado. Like many talented employees, Renée had creative outlets that blew me away. I was lucky enough and thrilled to read the…

I signed up for the Scratch One Another Program last week and already received a fantastic review of my blog by William Tully. It’s apparent that William really took some time and wrote a fantastic review of my blog. I…

If you’ve not heard about OpenID, it’s an interesting new technology on the web. Given all of the different websites and logins/passwords that one needs to remember these days, this technology could be either a blessing or a curse. On…