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Name: Ryan Street
Email: ryan@coolryan.com
Location: Dayton, Ohio
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How To Be A Blog Of Note
A blog of note is a special blog that gets a special recognition on the exclusive Blogs Of Note List on Blogspot.
Basically if you are unique in your blogging, you have a good chance of being listed on here.
How to be a blog of note? You will have to work at it son! Just because you are writing about what you ate for breakfast and how a traffic jam is the “light of a thousand fireflies” isn’t going to get your blog noticed. Why? Because everyone else writes about that garbage too. So who cares if you do? “Blogs Of Note” doesn’t.
So, How Do You Actually Get On this List? Let’s run through the steps.
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Cool Ryan Easy Popups Now On WordPress.org!
Now in order to keep track of updates, bug fixes, and more, I have added Cool Ryan Easy Popups to the Wordpress.org Plugins Repository. Now you can track progress, see updates, and more from WordPress.
You can find it here.
Talk soon!
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WordPress 3.0.1
It’s that time again! It is time to upgrade your wordpress. What are we updating to this time? At the surface, nothing seems to be different. It is usually like that with minor release. So what was changed? Actually a whole bunch of stuff. Nothing too major and no security releases. But what this does is finally let all the people who were afraid to download the new version now be able to do with confidence. So do it already!
Lets do the rundown of the bugs and features.
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5 Tips To Internet Success
It doesn’t have to be as hard as everyone makes it out to be. Internet success isn’t a secret. It isn’t some code to be cracked. It isn’t some unobtainable goal. It is just business 101 in it’s purest form. I will show you exactly how to make money online today! This isn’t rocket science. Obviously these are a little oversimplified, but the method is sound. Remember, this is business 101. Many marketers are actually not doing any work and that is why they aren’t making any money. Are you just reading and hoping something will happen? Or are you taking action? Without further ado…
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Combine And Simplify
Looking at separation of my blogs into different categories seems like a great idea. I can make sure my topics are easily separated. I can make sure all of my readers know what they are getting.
Then something happened. I was setting up my blog for my portfolio. I had setup my pages as necessary. I then saw that there was an overlap. No big deal I guess. Then, I saw something else starting to form. Promotion.
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Stepping Softly Into The World Of Child Themes
When you develop for WordPress, you start to pick up on things most blog owners don’t. That little nag in your theme, that plugin that is missing the one thing you were looking for in the first place. So on and so forth. So, you begin to look into the code. You see the change is relatively small, so you make it. But you know in the back of your head you shouldn’t have, because you know once your little plugin or theme gets updated, U R Screwed. So, you either redesign the goddamn wheel and make your own when there are plenty of good ones out there already or you make a baby, or child for that matter.
Footnotes – Pretty Sweet New Plugin
Andrew Nacin, a core developer for WordPress has made a great little pluign that allows you to create footnotes in your posts. It is pretty handy. I have too many times when I write shit inside of paragraphs, (it is a compulsion of mine) because I have too much crap going on inside my head. But now I can just use those sweet little footnotes.
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A Word On Greek Mythological Figures
Someone asked me what the hell “Dolos” was in regards to my upcoming “Cool Marketing Plugin”. I told him that Dolos was the spirit of trickery, cunning deception, craftiness, treachery and guile. He was greek Mythological figure who was said to trick the greek gods into lying.
“Yea, but what does that have to do with Marketing?” he said.
Marketing is just a form of trickery. You sell the sizzle, not the steak. Well, people are buying the damn steak, not the sizzle. You are tricking them, (even if not maliciously) into a purchase by building up a wow factor. Sounds like trickery to me.
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Finally Figured It All Out
While dealing and battling with what this blog was going to become, I hit a lot of snags in the line. First, it was a blog to sell my products. Failed. Then it became a blog to sell my services. Failded. Then it became a blog to sell my PLR Videos. Failed. Then, it became a personal blog. Failed. Then, it became a blog to broadcast my free plugins. Guess what? It has been the only thing with any sort of moderate success so far.
So because of this, I will be instead making this blog about my plugins, programming, and all things web coolness. Hopefully this will be the last change.
Later.
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Can You Sell “Free” Software?
I have seen this on forums, blogs, and Yahoo! Answers for too long. People get something as PLR, or downloads it on the Interwebz and says, “but I want to change two lines and charge money for it. Can I do that?
The answer is actually “yes”.
Open source software, licensed in many different ways, all have that sweet freedom of doing whatever you want with it. The only catch is that you have to redistribute it as open source as well once you decide to redistribute it. Notice how I didn’t say you have to give it away. People sell open source software all the time. It is just common to give it away. But that has lead to the misconception that ALL open source software must be free.