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Yahoo Finally Discontinues MyBlogLog

February 24, 2011 Blogging

It looks like Yahoo has made it official . . . on May 24, 2011 the MyBlogLog service will be “discontinued.” While I haven’t used the service in some time – about 2 years ago I saw this coming when their business development team all but completely blew off several attempts I made to connect [...]

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Don’t Disrespect the Help! You Never Know Who You’re Talking To

August 4, 2009 Blogging

A short while ago, a call came into my office from someone asking for me. My secretary answered the call and asked the caller how he could help them. The caller responded with his name and asked to talk to me (Josh Dorkin). My secretary then asked the caller what this was regarding and he [...]

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Changing Your Works from Creative Commons Attribution to All Rights Reserved . . . WHY?

July 28, 2009 Blogging

Yesterday, I received a message that blew my mind. In a post that I wrote for another blog last summer, I had included an image that I found in Flikr’s Creative Commons directory. This image was posted under a license requiring anyone using it to attribute the image to them. (NOTE: Image above is not [...]

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The Twitter Epiphany: Why post on Twitter when you can post on your blog?

May 1, 2009 Blogging

I’ll admit that I’ve become accustomed to using Twitter (and other social media) throughout my day to share interesting information, links, articles, etc. I’ve been doing it for some time now, but I came to an epiphany yesterday that is going to change my behavior. I wasn’t sharing my every move like the guy in [...]

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CNN & MSNBC Want to Know about My American Airlines Horror Story

April 14, 2008 Blogging

Since posting my story about how American Airlines abandoned me, and then treated me like a 5th class citizen last week, I was contacted by both MSNBC and CNN. I got the email from Christopher Elliot of MSNBC first thing Thursday morning (he sent it to me 4:30am that day – the day of my [...]

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American Airlines Cancels Thousands of Flights then Hangs Up on Customers Repeatedly

April 9, 2008 Blogging

BOYCOTT AMERICAN AIRLINES As many people are aware, American Airlines canceled hundreds of flights yesterday, and then canceled 1000 today. They just announced another set of hundreds of cancellations for tomorrow . . . Why does anyone care? Well, I happen to be one of the 100,000 plus passengers affected by these cancellations, and there [...]

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A Web-Based Photoshop Alternative – Splashup.com

February 6, 2008 Blogging

I just discovered a very cool site that promises to do to Adobe Photoshop what all of the web-based Google Desktop applications have done to Office. The website, Splashup, emulates Photoshop quite well, and is a must for any newbie blogger or web-designer who is strapped for cash and unwilling to buy PS. I definitely [...]

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Testing Simple Tags

January 13, 2008 Blogging

I just installed a new [tag]plugin[/tag] called [tag]Simple Tags[/tag]. I wanted to test this [tag]Technorati[/tag] tagging tool out! Looks to be pretty good to me!

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Joshua Dorkin Interviewed about Housing Crisis by CBS News Radio as Founder of BiggerPockets.com

September 2, 2007 Blogging

Hey all! It has been a month since my last post and I’m finding that keeping up with this blog along with everything else I do continues to be difficult. I will struggle on and try to keep it alive and kicking. With that in mind, I wanted to share a bit of news . [...]

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Jazz Up Your Blog or Website with Video Broadcasting Online: Some Cool Webcam Tools

June 13, 2007 Blogging

Everyone these days has a webcam, and I’m pretty sure most people don’t really use it too much (outside those of you voyeurs & teenagers out there). I actually use mine almost daily making video phone calls through Skype. It’s great! I keep up with my family, friends, and business associates by making these video [...]

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Should Blogs Focus on a Particular Niche?

June 7, 2007 Blogging

I was reading a few posts over at Digitalpoint Webmaster forums and came across a post asking if a niche was necessary for a blog. The person asking this question had asked the same question only a few weeks ago, but seemed to be unconvinced. If You’re Blogging for Money, You Must Have a Niche. [...]

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Fight Fire With Fire: Hitting Sploggers Back Where it Hurts

May 28, 2007 Ad Networks

This week, another SPLOG popped up that included stolen copyrighted content from one of my other blogs. This time, I was pretty annoyed. Normally, when I discover that a splog has stolen content from one of my sites, I’ll request they remove the content with a CC to their host. I don’t really go after [...]

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Flying Tips, Cool Online Trends, and Google Gets Scary! Are We In a Brave New World?

May 23, 2007 Blogging

I’d like to thanks CNN for sharing with me the incredible AvoidDelays, which is brought to all of us from our nation’s air controllers. This site is chock full of awesome data about flying in the US, including airports to avoid, worst time to fly to certain cities, and much more. If you travel at [...]

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Cyber-News: May 16, 2007

May 16, 2007 Blogging

Here are some important news stories from the past day that are worth a look: Gonzales proposes new crime: ‘Attempted’ copyright infringement (CNet News.com) This could affect every blogger and person with a website. An important read. Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia (The Guardian UK) Looks like we’re possibly seeing the first [...]

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Technorati’s WTF Got Game(d)

May 15, 2007 Blogging

Introducing Technorati’s WTF aka Where’s The Fire I don’t think it has quite caught on yet, but Technorati has built it’s own answer to Digg, Reddit and the rest of the social news and bookmarking sites. It’s called Where’s The Fire or WTF and covers “What’s Hot, and Why.” Considering the popularity and resources of [...]

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