I am a 25-year-old looking to do the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and the Continental Divide Trail in one year. This is also known as the calendar triple crown of hiking. I am looking to bring awareness to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention throughout the hike as well as keep a daily blog…
If you don’t have automatic updates turned on your self-hosted WordPress sites, you should probably make some time to get them updated. Nothing like having your site hacked because you skipped an update that patches vulnerabilities! And while you’re at it, go ahead and turn on automatic updates. It won’t do major release updates, you’ll…
“It’s worth noting, as Fusion editor Ethan Chiel did in the aforementioned episode of Press Play, that the practice of storing information in “the cloud” is a nebulous one. “The ‘cloud’ is just someone else’s hard drive,” he said, emphasizing that information and content we think of as “safe” simply because it’s located on a…
“It recommends that Page owners also add targeting – a paid campaign — to their posts to boost reach. It recommends other paid for options such as boosting posts and using Facebook ads to publicise discounts and promotions. This algorithm change will impact businesses with small marketing budgets who can not afford to pay for…
“Good blogs aren’t focused on the vapid race for clicks that other forms of social media encourage. Instead, they patiently inform and challenge, using your time with respect. Here’s the thing: Google doesn’t want you to read blogs. They shut down their RSS reader and they’re dumping many blog subscriptions into the gmail promo folder,…
“Content creators can and do evolve to make articles, videos, photos and podcasts more distracting and attention-grabbing. But your family and friends on Facebook aren’t getting any better at making their status updates more attention-grabbing. And so social networking is being outrun by a universe of professional attention-grabbers. The attention economy is a Darwinian, survival-of-the-fittest…