Archive for 2011

Announcing Our Bloggers Boot Camp Course

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Charlie and I are pleased to announce our first web course featuring one-on-one time with Charlie and I online during the run of the program. It’s a 12-week writing course with a focus on blogging and it should take you 20 minutes or so a day to go through the sections, videos, exercises and discussions.

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Thoughts On TechCrunch

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We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
Pathos via Wordsworth

I’ve stayed out of this mess so far simply because my team and site had been so far removed from the day-to-day TC rigamarole that I felt at least slightly out of touch with the internal politics associated with Mike’s firing and the rest of it all. The gadgets and mobile guys all work for TC, obviously, but we were never part of the whole he-said-she-said world of start-ups and funding that helped TC really take off. The CG/MC team were booster engines, at best, offering that last push to send the site into orbit.

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My Piece On The Death Of RIM On Canadian Public Radio

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иконописYou can listen to me excoriate RIM in this CBC broadcast I that ran last weekend. Great fun and I learned Canadians are just like us!


Blogger’s Bootcamp Now On Sale… And More Cool Stuff Coming Soon

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Here it is, folks: the book on writing for blogs by Charlie White (of Mashable) and I. Pick it up now at Amazon for $20 or grab it on the Kindle for $16. We’ll be doing some very interesting things in the next few weeks as well, so stay tuned.

Bloggers Boot Camp: Learning How to Build, Write, and Run a Successful Blog [Kindle Edition]

Bloggers Boot Camp: Learning How to Build, Write, and Run a Successful Blog


Here come the first copies of Blogger’s Boot Camp

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Yay new book! Pre-order it here.