You know, I think of myself as a pretty prolific blogger. With over 1,100 posts in under two years, its hard to find others who can match my output. So would it surprise you to learn that even with multiple anti-spam measures in place, there are 100 Spams posted to OMB for every post I write!

That’s right. Akismet alone has saved you guys from reading over 100,000 spam comments, so a big huge thanks goes out to Matt Mullenweg and the gang over at Automattic for offering this service.

Folks, for a long time now I’ve held a virtual monopoly on the blogging scene. One Man’s Blog has been the ONLY Man’s blog. But now a new contender has arisen to challenge my dominance. Aaron Phillips has foolishly taken up the gauntlet by launching Another Man’s Blog! Silly mortal.

What’s more, in his latest delusional posting he’s taken to comparing One Man to Another Man. And to make matters worse, he’s even created Battle Cards for us!

I’d just like to say that these Battle Cards are completely F@$%ing off the mark! Clearly my “F-bomb” ability has been massively F@$%ing understated! I demand a F@$%ing recount! I’ll pay anyone $10 to do it!

I had the honor and privilege of moderating a power packed panel at WordCamp Dallas comprised of Matt Mullenweg, Mark Ghosh, Liz Strauss and Aaron Brazell on the topic “The Business of Blogging”.

The panelists discussed how businesses of any size might better incorporate blogging and other forms of new media into their marketing and product development plans.
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Folks, our friend Johny has uploaded a Woopra overview video which is so comprehensive it even taught me a couple of things about how the application works!

If you’re using Woopra currently, I recommend that you spend 10 minutes with the video and pick up at least a few new tricks. If not, you can see what all the buzz is about, and what you’ll soon be able to get access to.

For those of you who can’t wait till the closed beta ends to get started, there are two opportunities to get your invite now:
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Jonathan Bailey, of Plagiarism Today, gave a fantastic lecture at WordCamp Dallas 2008 in Frisco, TX entitled “How to Prevent, Detect and Stop Content Theft” which was a fantastic discussion about things you can to protect your content.

Oh, and you can also hear Jonathan over on the WordPress Podcast, which he co-hosts along with Charles Stricklin.

By the way, for my non-blogging readers, I’m almost done with the WordCamp videos… so we’ll be getting back to the regular silliness very soon. Please stand by!
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At WordCamp Dallas 2008, held in Frisco, Texas this year, Aaron Brazell gave a lecture on WordPress Frequently Asked Questions. If you are a WordPress blogger, you do not want to miss this lecture!

Once again, special thanks to Mayor Mike Simpson and the entire City Council for allowing the event to be held in the Council Chambers. And also to Tom Kraemer, the City’s AV Manager who worked tirelessly all weekend to record and catalog all of the WordCamp videos.

And don’t forget to spread the link love to our generous sponsors without whom this event simply wouldn’t have been possible:

• Layered Technologies
• Find My Host
• 3Tera
• Automattic
• B5Media

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Liz Strauss is a recognized authority on the topic of building online communities, so it was only fitting that she give a lecture called, “C’mon, Let’s Talk! Building Influence and Interaction with Blogging” at WordCamp Dallas this year.

Her site Successful and Outstanding Bloggers is a must read, so make sure you drive by and learn a thing or 100!

Incidentally, in case I didn’t mention it enough recently. Many thanks to Tom Kraemer, the City of Frisco’s AV Manager who worked tirelessly all weekend to record all of these WordCamp videos.
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I’m pleased to be able to present the Queen of WordPress, Lorelle VanFossen! This presentation is from WordCamp 2008 and Lorelle gives her WordPress Power Tips!

If you haven’t read Lorelle on WordPress and you’re a blogger… well you’re missing out. And you should also check out her Camera on the Road site to keep up with wherever in the heck she is right at this moment!
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This was my lecture given at the WordCamp Dallas 2008 event held at City Hall in Frisco, TX. The topic was the previously posted 45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog.

Enjoy…

P.S. - Watch for the cameo appearance from Frisco City Mayor Mike Simpson!
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Today I’ll be attending WordCamp Dallas, which Charles Stricklin and I jointly organized. We’ve got a whole line up of fantastic speakers including Matt Mullenweg, Jonathan Bailey, Cali Lewis and Neal Campbell, Liz Strauss, Lorelle VanFossen, Chris Smith, Aaron Brazell, Jacob Santos, and Mark Ghosh.

If you’re one of the WordCamp attendees and you happen to be sitting in the lecture hall reading along as I stand here on stage, well… deja vu! Otherwise, for my normal readers here comes a list of 45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog! If all goes well we’ll be recording the lecture and will be able to append the video to this post later.
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Lately I’ve noticed some new and disturbing trends in blog spamming techniques. Among the most prevalent are commenters who spend time building up a considerable number of comment back links on a seemingly non-commercial site in order to later convert that site into a commercial free-for-all.

This behavior is inherently unethical. Bloggers, like myself, only allow links to be associated with commenter’s names for the purpose of getting to know who they are, not so our visitors will follow links only to be subjected to commercial solicitation. Posing as legitimate is nothing new, spammers have been faking regular commenter names for a while now.

On this blog, my own Terms of Use specifically prohibit such activity - though I have to delete posts all day, every day for violating them. On this blog alone Akismet has marked 71,000 Spam comments. And that is nowhere near the total number of Spammers stopped.
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After the announcement that I’d joined Layered Technologies, several of you mentioned that you’d be interested in our affiliate program once I got it rolled out at work, so I wanted to let you know that we just launched it and invite everyone to sign up! Just sign up at Share-a-sale and join the Layered Tech program. (Oh, drop a comment that you’re an OMB reader when you sign up so the team will let me know!)

For those of you not entirely familiar with LT, we are a dedicated server hosting company. We don’t do shared hosting, though we do Virtual Private Servers starting at about $50 per month. Unlike shared hosting, VPS provides actual dedicated resources so some other person’s Web site on the same server won’t affect the performance of your own.

Anyway, we’re offering 30% commissions for all referrals that result in sales, and we routinely sell services that range from hundreds to thousands of dollars. So even referring just one sales every month or two could generate more money than an entire Google AdWords campain for most people.

I hope you guys will sign up for the program and help us grow Layered Technologies while also earning a little coin. Oh, and we’ve got a lot of banners available when you sign up, but if you need something custom just let me know and we’ll create it for you. You can drop a comment here, or use my contact form.
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