OK, so right about this time last year, I was announcing the Year of Living Socially, in which I was planning to: #1 — Really focus on just three content areas I think are important. They are cloud computing and social media, which I believe will be big in 2012, and intelligent search, which I’ve [...]
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Twenty years or so ago, I was working a full-time job and running an online science fiction magazine. At the same time, I got a new puppy, who constantly needed to go out, in the winter, in Ohio. Eventually, I got pneumonia, and had to slow down for a couple of weeks. This time it’s [...]
The first thing we need to do before we do any building of anything for NoTooMi is the design — and I don’t mean how it looks – so let’s do that. That means that today we’re going to talk about UML Component Diagrams. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) was designed to create a sort [...]
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve decided to use the Agile methodology Scrum for the NoTooMi project. It’s lightweight, and still enables me to do the design I need, without having to resort to tons of extra documentation just to keep with an arbitrary methodology. So the question remains, what is Scrum? I [...]
One metric that I know we’re going to need even before I do any analysis is web analytics. Those are the statistics that tell me how many people are coming to the web site, what they’re looking at, where they’re coming from, and so on. OK, I’ll confess: analysis or not, I want to know [...]
OK, so it’s been two weeks since I posted, and my plan to say something valuable on Facebook or Twitter every day went by the wayside about 3 days in when I realized that even with just a few quality follows I was swamped. But the turning point came when I was reading Guy Kawasaki’s [...]
Well, we no longer have to refer to The Year Of Living Socially application as The Year of Living Socially application. It will now be known as NoTooMi. How did we come to that? It’s a reference to TMI, or “too much information”. In other words, NomoreTooMI. I’ve also been working behind the scenes on [...]
Technorati has been around long enough that it’s practically ancient in Internet time, but it’s still a primary source of information on blogs for various topics, and also for how your blog is rated in terms of links from other blogs, so you will want to go ahead and claim your blog. To do that, [...]
Before we really get started on any of the technical issues for The Year Of Living Socially, we really need to resolve the social media end of things, so that we can fulfill the plan of implementing the technical end ‘in public’. So the first thing we need to do is develop a strategy. Now, [...]
All right, now that we know how to add a new plugin to WordPress, we can take a look at listing our posts in chronological order, rather than traditional blog-based reverse chronological order. If you look up to the right, you’ll see a sidebar widget listing the Year Of Living Socially posts. We’re doing that [...]
