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PayPerPost Bloggers Losing Pagerank

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Eric Marden
on November 19, 2007
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TechCrunch reports:

If participating in PayPerPost wasn’t questionable enough morally before, today it’s now a poisoned chalice as Google has commenced punishing PayPerPost bloggers by completely removing their page rank.

This story hits close to home, both as a blogger - and as an Orlando resident - where PayPerPost is HQ’d. I’ve never really seen the benefit - except to advertisers - to use any good will and influence I’ve built up on my sites to push products on my audience that I didn’t believe in. And while IZEA, the company behind PPP and other Social Media Marketing efforts tries to balance their commercial interests with social awareness, Google’s move against them was warranted, in my opinion.

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Open Document Format Wars

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Eric Marden
on November 17, 2007
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It seems that the Open Document Format, the native format for Open Office.org and contributed to by the Open Document Foundation, as slammed this week - by the ODF - as being too proprietary, and that the corporate backers (such as Sun who adopted the format for its own Star Office package) were more interested in killing Microsoft Office than TRUE Interoperability between Word Processors and the other office productivity tools.

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Designing Forms

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Eric Marden
on November 2, 2007
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Great video from Future of Web Apps that shows how Ryan Singer, Lead Designer at 37 Signals, approaches form design. It goes back to their software development philosophy dubbed “Getting Real”, which is made up of many small common sense decisions that lead to a more usable product.

BarCamp Orlando 2007 Video

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Eric Marden
on October 17, 2007
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Thanks to Jason Hawkins from MakeFilmWork for putting this together. I’m featured a couple of times in the video, and feel honored to have been included. Check out the original post here.

Video after the jump.

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Common Craft

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Eric Marden
on October 11, 2007
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If you havn’t seen any of the Common Craft videos yet, you need to. In one fell swoop, a couple in Seattle has transformed the HOWTO into a 5 minute video that can introduce anybody, even your own grandmother, to semi-complex web topics — all while speaking plain english.

They are amazing, inspiring, and just plain fun to watch. Common Craft creates teaching videos with humans in mind. They do 100% original work for their show: Common Craft TV, as well as doing custom videos for companies that one of them for their website or product.

“RSS in Plain English” video is available, after the jump.

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