by Joe Spake on June 29, 2009
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I posted earlier this month about Facebook allowing “vanity” URLs for profiles. Millions of users took the opportunity to set them up.
Personalized URLs were also made available for Pages with over 1000 fans at that time. Last night Facebook opened it up to Pages with less than 1000 fans. [...]
by Joe Spake on June 27, 2009
They say on the news that it only takes 25 names on a petition and $100 Fee to run for Mayor of Memphis. I am contemplating a candidacy. It seems like a pretty cool part-time job. And the current Mayor’s real estate business has done pretty well while he has held office.
So, any supporters? Or [...]
by Joe Spake on June 23, 2009
Remember in elementary school, the first theme of the year was “What I did on Vacation”? Katy and I took a much needed few days to visit our friend Jane on Tybee Island, GA.
Things I did on vacation (certainly not a comprehensive list and in no particular order):
Itched and burned from tanning bed induced sunburn [...]
by Joe Spake on June 17, 2009
Since this is an anecdotal post rant and not a highly researched news story, I reserve the right not to add links or discourse addressing the policies of the parties mentioned.
The Notification
I was in my car when the phone rang. An out of town number. It was the GAP, asking me if I had [...]
by Joe Spake on June 14, 2009
Thumbing through a Rolling Stone the other day in the barber shop and ran across this year’s list of music festivals. Memphis is probably best known for the Beale Street Music Festival which kicks off Memphis in Mud May every year, but there 3 fine festivals close by that bring in music fans from all [...]
by Joe Spake on June 12, 2009
In case you didn’t know, as of 11:01PM on 6/12, Facebook is allowing you to set up a vanity URL for your profile. Tired of that facebook.com/09403829=?89721 profile, URL? Now you can have something as smooth as your Twitter account, like http://facebook.com/JoeSpake.
Just to to http://facebook.com/username and set it up!
by Joe Spake on June 12, 2009
Posted earlier under the title: TEST post : There are definitely issues with WP2.8
UPDATE: A quick Google search will indicate that there are issues with the new WordPress 2.8 build and the visual editor. You probably know I am not a coder, so whenever anything doesn’t work like it is supposed to, I freak. After [...]
by Joe Spake on June 7, 2009
If you happened to stumble across a little Memphis photo blog I put up a few weeks ago, you will find that the URL now brings you here. I am fascinated with WordPress, but, after numerous experiments, I am trying to distill my content to fewer sites. So, I will posting photos of note here. [...]
by Joe Spake on June 2, 2009
“…..it’s just, I’ve changed and you haven’t……”
I ran across this short video produced by http://bringtheloveback.com. It addresses traditional (push, interruption) marketing vs. conversational (pull, permission) marketing, in plain enough terms that even an old-school advertising exec could understand
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