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 First Episode Of Perfcast Now Available

Submitted by Jeff Chandler on August 29, 2008 - 10:36am in

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The first episode of Perfcast went off without a hitch. While discussing WordPress, Lloyd Budd, (who is NOT a core developer) called in. Be sure to tune into next weeks episode and participate live.

STORIES THAT WERE DISCUSSED -
Are You Trustworthy - CopyBlogger
Stop Blaming The WordPress Team - WeblogToolsCollection.com
Monetization Of Twitter - Peformancing
Blogging Internships - TheBlogHerald
Liz Strauss Comment Counter Creates Controversy - TheBlogHerald

LISTENER FEEDBACK - None - We love hearing what you, our audience, thinks of the show, as well as the blogging industry. If you have something to say, please contact us at (perfcast at gmail dot com)

Each week, David and I like to look at the jobs available in blogging and related industries. We cover jobs that catch our eye, and hopefully don't pay too poorly. We will feature one of these jobs on each episode of Perfcast.

BLOGGING JOB OF THE WEEK - Business/Tech Satire Writer

BLOGGING CHALLENGE - Thank your top five commenter's.

The blogging challenge is provided as a means of challenging yourself with a specific duty each week. David and I will be participating in each challenge and will be highlighting various entries from the previous challenge. To have your entry viewed by David and I, leave a comment with a link to your entry on this blog post. You may be the entry we review on the next episode.

LENGTH OF EPISODE - 59 Minutes

NEXT EPISODE - Thursday September 4th, 2008 at 7 P.M. EST

MISC STUFF MENTIONED IN THE SHOW:
WTF Blog Design Clutter Series By Lorelle Van Fossen
WordPress Plugin Called Podcasting
Jeff Chandlers Stats Page
WP-Stats - The Plugin Which Generates The Stats Page

LISTEN TO THE SHOW:

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 How To Participate In Perfcast Live

Submitted by Jeff Chandler on August 28, 2008 - 10:35pm in

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Our first episode of Perfcast will be airing Live tonight at 7 P.M. EST. Here are a few ways in which you can participate in the show.

Chatting:

There are two different clients provided by Talkshoe, the web client and the Talkshoe Pro client. The web client is accessed via a browser window or a tab and acts like an IRC channel. The text scrolls from the bottom to the top and the users who are in the chat room appear in a column on the right hand side. The call in information is presented in the bottom part of the window.

You can also chat by using Talkeshoe Pro but before you can use their software, you'll have to install it. This is the way I access Perfcast and any other show on Talkshoe that I participate in. The interface provides a means of color coding the chat so you can follow multiple conversations at once. The client can sometimes be a bit laggy when compared to the web client but I think the pro client has a much better interface. The pro client also gives you access to something called ShoePhone which is Talkshoes built in SIP client. I don't recommend using it because it produces bad audio quality but if you can't call in through a different method, this will work.

Calling In:

You can call into the show a few different ways. The first way is by using a cellphone, landline or SkypeOut and dialing (724)444-74444. The talkshoe prompt will welcome you to Talkshoe and asks you for the Talkcast ID number. The ID number for Perfcast is, 24073. After you type in the number, hit the # sign. For some of you, you'll need to enter in your PIN. Your PIN number is usually your phone number or whatever number you assigned during the account creation process. If you don't have a PIN Number, you can still dial in as an anonymous user.

When you call into the show, you will automatically be muted. If you are calling in to discuss a particular news topic or have something to say, please press *8as this will initiate the Request To Talk feature which the host of the show will see. When you hear Talkshoe tell you that you have been unmuted, that means you are on the air.

Be sure to head on over to the Perfcast Talkshoe Page at 6:45 P.M. EST as that is when you'll be able to enter the room.

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 how to clone a hard dirve

Submitted by harry005 on August 28, 2008 - 6:30pm in

Did know that you could clone your current Hard Drive without having to by extra software? Maybe you didn't know that all that you needed, was already set up on your current system? Well, it is... and if you follow this tut, you shouldn't have much of a problem.

Make sure that you have a Master and a Slave setup on your system. The Slave drive, in this case, is where all the data on the Master is going to go to.

First: Perform a Scandisk your Master drive and follow that with a thorough Defrag. If you have an Antivirus program, do a thorough sweep with the AV first, then do the Scandisk, followed by the Defrag.

Second: Do the same thing to the target drive, as you did the Master: Scandisk then a thorough Defrag.

Third: Right-click on the Target drive and click on Format. When the box comes up, click your mouse onto the "Full" button.

Fourth: After Formatting the Target drive, run a Scandisk again and click on the button that says "Autofix Errors".

Fifth: In this final part, you might want to cut-and-paste to code in, unless you are sure that you can do it without making any mistakes:

Click on the "Start" button, then click on the "Run..." button, then place the following into the Runbox:

"XCOPY C:\*.*D:\ /c/h/e/k/r" (minus the quotes, of course) then press the "Enter" button.

If you receive an error message, then remove the space from between XCOPY and C:\

Anything that should happen to come up in the DOS box, just click "Y" for "Yes". When its all finished, pull the original Master from the system, designate the Slave as the Master (change your jumpers), then check your new Master out.

This tut has worked and has been tested on all systems except for Window2000

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 2 Possibly 4 Political WordPress Themes

Submitted by Jeff Chandler on August 28, 2008 - 9:25am in

The other day, I was asked if I could provide some insight into some WordPress themes that were politically based that didn't end up looking like crap. The theme must also do a good job displaying photo/video type posts. Here is my SHORT list of political based WordPress themes.

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 The Future of Content Management Is Collaboration

Submitted by James Mowery on August 28, 2008 - 4:45am in

Content management is becoming an increasingly popular part of technological advancement for the internet and for the people who will create, manage, and consume that content. Developers have long been exceeding in this area, but the future demands new collaboration features that have only recently been increasing with popularity.

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 How To Define Acronyms Within Your Content

Submitted by Jeff Chandler on August 27, 2008 - 12:03am in

AcronymsAs I was reading a post written by Lorelle over at the BlogHerald discussing how to help readers keep up with your blog, I came across a tip which I thought I would illustrate here as well. It has to do with defining acronyms within your post in case your readers don't understand the lingo of your niche.

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 Weekly Link Dump Two

Submitted by Jeff Chandler on August 26, 2008 - 7:08am in

My FeedReader always provides me a wealth of content that I can't consume on a daily basis but within that content lies a myriad of tips and tricks by many, many different blogs out on the net. Here are a few articles which I noticed in my travels.

Add Breadcrumbs to your WordPress Blog - BloggingTips reviews a plugin which adds breadcrumbs to your WordPress theme.

Podcasters Wanted: Will Work for Show Promotion? - Blogger And Podcaster magazine are offering up the opportunity for readers to help create the podcast edition of the site. Those who are selected will receive the chance to plug their own show or service and will obtain a 1/4 page ad in the magazine.

7 Certain Ways to Crucify Your Content - Shilpan Patel of Success Soul provides seven ways to help steer your content from an immediate negative vibe while also providing techniques from which to improve your writing.

Are You TrustWorthy - CopyBlogger goes over the importance of being trustworthy with your readers.

ProBlogger Headline Writing Contest - Darren Rowse is at it again and this time, his group writing project centers around creating a killer post title. Up for grabs is an identity logo created by David Airey. Sweet prize!

Proof positive that you should not post negative things about your coworkers on a blog.

5 Ways to Imitate the 10 Most Popular Blogs - Easton does a good job covering five things which the top 10 blogs all seem to have in common.

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 Writing With Emotion

Submitted by Jeff Chandler on August 25, 2008 - 10:43am in

During a bit of downtime this past weekend, I thought about the various articles I have written over the course of two years. Some have been total successes while others have been failures. However, when I began to piece together some of the best stuff I have ever written, I noticed a commonality between them all.

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 Adjix Founder Responds To Criticism

Submitted by Jeff Chandler on August 24, 2008 - 10:24pm in

After publishing my review of Adjix, the service which pays users to shorten URLs, I received a bit of a backlash from Performancing readers. According to a few commenter's, by writing a review of Adjix, I was promoting spamming and scamming. Taking your feedback to heart, I took the criticisms of the service and emailed them to Joe Moreno, the Founder of Adjix hoping he would respond. He did, and this is what he had to say.

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 Monetization Through Twitter

Submitted by Jeff Chandler on August 22, 2008 - 11:24pm in

adjix logo Many people still believe that using Twitter is a waste of time. Perhaps those notions will change now that a company has come along offering to pay you for using their service to shrink URLs. Introducing Adjix. Adjix is a brand new company that is both an ad network and a service which pays people who shrink their URLs through their site. Adjix calls people who shrink their urls, linkers. Adjix places ads at the top of each page where a URL has been shortened without altering the original content. This is yet another opportunity for those of you who would like to advertise to the twitter audience as you can launch ad campaigns through the service.

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 The Blogosphere’s Impact on Academic Studies and Writings

Submitted by James Mowery on August 22, 2008 - 7:48am in

School

Authors, professors, entrepreneurs, experts, and journalists use blogs these days to communicate with the world. However, have you ever imagined a blog being an origination of academic research? Never before have I considered this a possibility, but now I believe differently.

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 Monetize Your Archives With WhyDoWork Adsense Plugin

Submitted by Jeff Chandler on August 22, 2008 - 5:48am in

Currently within the hive, there is an ongoing conversation taking place with regards to the must have WordPress plugins. Although everyone seems to have a different answer to this question, a number of Hive members are using a plugin called WhyDoWork. I decided to give it a try myself to figured out why it is, people are using it.

WhyDoWork is a WordPress plugin which ties into your Adsense account that enables you to display more ads for older articles. This plugin contains a plethora of options allowing up to ten different ad codes which can be configured to use AdSense codes, YPN, CPM banners, buttons or what have you. You can also configure when the ads show, how they show up, as well as block ads from showing up on certain pages or articles. This means you can display little to no advertising on articles that are new and after a week or more, you can start displaying ads on those posts which will be viewed by search engine traffic.

WhyDoWork Configuration Page

Different positions you can display advertising:

Top - Inserts the ad between the title and the content

Top Left and Top Right - Inserts the ad in the top part of the content.

Middle - Inserts the code in the middle of the post, between two paragraphs. Middle means here that it sees how many paragraphs there are in a post, then divides it by two and inserts the ad there. For example, in a 12 paragraph story, it will insert it after the 6th paragraph. You need at least 2 paragraphs in a post for the middle positions to display.

Middle Left and Middle Right - Inserts the code in the middle of the post, surrounded by text. It actually inserts it in the top part of the second half of the post, so it might seem closer to the bottom.

Bottom - Inserts the code below the content

Random - Cycles the selected code among the positions that are not occupied by other ads. In order for the random setting not to use a position assigned to a fixed ad, you will need to insert the random one to the last setting in use.

Conclusion:

It seems like many people are using this plugin on their blog as a way to monetize their archive. However, I want to know if you are using this plugin? If so, has it been successful for you in terms of increasing the amount you make from advertising?

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 Perfcast Date Change

Submitted by Jeff Chandler on August 21, 2008 - 10:24am in

A few days ago, I mentioned that Perfcast was coming back. In that post, I said our first episode would air on Wednesday, August 27th. This date has changed to Thursday, August 28th. This is to accommodate my schedule as well as Davids. Be sure to tune in live next week for our first live episode.

If you would like to be on the show either as a special guest co-host or as an interviewee, don't hesitate to get in contact with me via email. jeffro at jeffro2pt0 dot com.

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 What I Learned At The Social Media Bootcamp

Submitted by Jeff Chandler on August 20, 2008 - 8:11pm in

Digg LogoThe topic for todays social media bootcamp was: The Secrets Of Digg Success. Till this day, I have yet to appear on the Digg frontpage. The closest I have been to the front page of Digg is an article which received 35 or so digs. In todays bootcamp, I learned that it is not just a matter of catering to the Digg crowd but that there is much more involved in a successful Digg post.

Apparently, human psychology has a lot to do with many of the posts that are successful on Digg. There are two points which Ryan brought up during the bootcamp which I thought were points to keep in mind.

1) It's not just about quality content on Digg. It's about quality content that fits the average Digg user's sensibilities

2) It's not just about quality content on Digg. It's about quality content promoted by a variety of somewhat independent networks.

Andrew then brought up an excellent question. What makes up the average Digg user? According to members who attended the bootcamp, the typical Digg user is someone who love technology, is an early adopter, enjoys sticking it to the man, and contains at least a higher than average intelligence level. Although that last point could be argued based on the comments published on Digg articles. With the psychological profile in mind, you can then write content which pushes those buttons.

Other topics we discussed included the use of digg buttons, the placement of the share bar where social media buttons are displayed (top or bottom of the post), types of content which always seems to be a hit on Digg, techniques on getting articles dugg and, combination of social media (digg, reddit, SU, all at once).

If you couldn't attended the bootcamp, you can view the entire transcript within the hive. Be sure to stay tuned for the next social media bootcamp. Rumors are, that the next event may focus on Yahoo! Buzz.

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 The Nitrous Theme For WordPress: Performancing's August 2008 Theme

Submitted by Ryan Caldwell on August 20, 2008 - 2:22am in

Our most popular free theme releases of the past have been Brian Gardner designed themes (yes, the Brian Gardner of Revolution fame). So all WordPress theme conoisseurs will be glad to know that this month we're releasing Brian's latest theme, Nitrous.

Besides it's ultra-clean look, perhaps the coolest feature of Nitrous is the way it can auto-generate drop-down navigational menus using your WordPress pages and sub-pages. This allows you to give your readers lots of navigational options, without cluttering up the nav bar.

Nitrous comes with a built-in header image, but this can easily be swapped out to fit the theme of your blog.

Click here to see what Nitrous looks like on a live blog.
Click here to download the Nitrous theme.

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