Brad Hicks vs Ron Burgandy
I was just going through my webstats and noticed I got some Google traffic for people looking for Brad Hicks. It was probably Brad Googleing himself, you shouldn’t do that Brad. Anyway, I make no secret of what a joke I think local news is, I am not alone in this and I don’t have much to say that hasn’t been said before. I did find something pretty funny however. I had mentioned Brad Hicks in a post about a couple trash stories on the news lately that were messing with local business. The only reason I mentioned Brad was because of his garish ties and the fact that he just looks like he would smoke weed. Which is totally fine by me. Anyway, I googled Brad Hicks and came across this page.
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2008/03/anchorman-legend-of-brad-hicks.html
There are no original thoughts left….
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Keeping track of a good idea
I Have a 15 minute walk to work. I think I probably get 65% of the best creative thinking for the entire day during my walk to and from the office. I came up with 3 or 4 excellent topics to write about today. Unfortunately, due to some bad choices I have made regarding chemical intake in my formitive years, and that I had some wine last night – I forgot them, well most of them.
I use Dragon Naturally Speaking at home. It actually works pretty well. I will be thrilled when its flawless. This got me to thinking, when are we going to be able to phone in blog posts? If you think about it, it really wouldn’t be that difficult. I am guessing that it will happen with Twitter first since. The short character limit of the messages and the explosion in popularity, it makes sense. The problem is, it’s really easy to text message 146 characters. So an actual blog post would be great.
I know some people call their own voice mail and leave their thoughts as a message, and I supposed I could carry one of those mini-recorders, but thats just one more gadget to fill my pockets. I just want to call my blog and post my thoughts. This will happen, I am sure. I just wish it would happen now.
I guess for the time being I will just try to salvage what I can from my fried short term memory.
Oh another practical use would be for prisoners. I see there are a lot of prison blogs, I assume they are dictated over the phone or sent in by snail mail.
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Cross posting to multiple blogs with Windows Live Writer and xPollinate
I am testing out the cross pollination with Windows Live Writer. I have to admit I am a little embarrassed that I didn’t know about Windows Live Writer.
I am not a Microsoft hater. I don’t have a mac or hang around with Mac people. I am really into blogging technology, so that’s why I am a little surprised that I had not heard about Windows Live Writer.
We have a client, our biggest client actually, and we are going to be setting up several site for continuity programs that target 3 or 4 very different audiences. My partner asked me how we should go
about setting up the blogs. Do we want to get a separate domain for the blogs? Do we want to have them all write to one blog? The issue is we can’t have the blogs on the domain for one of the sites because it would alienate the other 2 or 3 audience groups. I went in search for the solution.
I went to Google of course. I punched in a couple queries that didn’t do much good. Then I queried "cross post to multiple blogs". I found an article that was talking about the various options to do just what I was wanting to do. It should be noted that I have several solutions for cross posting, but most have a black hat feel to them and that isn’t appropriate for this client. Anyway, the article was talking about Windows Live Writer and a plugin for it called cross pollinate. This looked like just the ticket, but I assumed as usual it would ALMOST what I wanted but not quite.
I downloaded the software, it asked me for my blog address (URL), I punched in one of my wordpress blogs and hit go. Error, no biggie, I had to go into the admin and check enable XPRC posting. I did that, came back, and voila! Instant easy posting to my blog with the nice candy clean windows type interface. You can select the category, tags and schedule the post. Everything a basic blogger needs to start posting.
I will set the automation for posting to Facebook, Twitter, etc inside WordPress but this looks great.
I needed to download the pollinate plugin, when I did that I was told I needed to install the .NET framework and that’s where we are now, waiting for that to install.
Ok, everything is installed and this is going to be my test of the xPollinate plugin. If this works, I will be extremely pleased. Three cheers for Bill Gates!
Dan Kennedy Super Conference
I am extremely excited about going to the Dan Kennedy super conference tomorrow in Chicago. Time to put some faces to some voices, and meet with some like minded people. The goal is a million dollars by April 2010. It’s going to happen. There are so many, almost (but not quite) too many, things happening right now. It’s unreal. I am bordering on the biggest success in my life. It is incredibly exciting.
The new company website should be up soon, with blogs for the personalities. Already getting feedback from the clients about the spped at which their sites are moving up in Google. from page ten to page one in 2 weeks, now get it up to #1. I’m money baby, a big bear with sharp teeth, and you are just cute little rabbit.