Drool, Drool, Drool, Drool, Blog Payola!
Apparently, the FTC is going to start monitoring blogs that accept freebies and the like from companies trying to spin some positive press in the blogosphere. You have to love how the FTC thinks that they can actually monitor something like this.
Any reputable company does not engage in the practice in the first place. An honest blogger won’t engage in the practice. As long as it is disclosed, who cares? The FTC has more important things to worry about.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/21/AR2009062101107.html
Old Media STILL Doesn’t Get It
I was reading this story this morning; Rupert Murdoch says he expects web sites powered by his company, News Corporation, to start charging users for content. Is he serious?
The only way you would be able to even hope this would work is that if every major news content outlet started to charge as well. Obviously, the chances of that happening are, well, nothing. I don’t have a problem paying for premium content, but nobody will ever pay for what someone else gives away for free.
Stupid Name, Amazing Results
I, like any web developer, love using PHP for many, many different projects. It’s a handy, fast, and forgiving language. I have been Aptana as my IDE of choice for a while now, but it’s just too damn slow. I do not care what anyone says, anything written in Java is just too damn slow. So I began to look around at some other IDE’s. I had heard of Netbeans before, but they only built in PHP support not that long ago. Also, oddly enough, it is mainly considered a Java IDE. I stayed away from it for a while.
I decided to give it a spin, and was I surprised. It’s fast as hell, the code completion and parameter hinting is really quick and light, it hasn’t crashed on me once, and all the other good features you would expect. I really urge you to check it out if you do any amount of PHP development.
And yes, it seems the weirder the name, the cooler the software. Netbeans? I won’t ask.
If I was perfect, than this would be easy
I’m pretty darn good at web design and web development. I’m better than a lot of people who make sites professionally. I’m good with Photoshop, I’m great with PHP, I’m great with ASP.net, and I am constantly learning new things. I’m addicted to building things for the web. I love adding fantastic looking and accessible user interfaces. I want to do my part in shaping the web.
So what is holding me back? I really want to start my own freelance web design company. Why should I sit back while I see people slapping together crap and make money off of it? But I still can’t seem to get everything started. I know that I can be much better than a lot of people out there, so why don’t I?
I Broke The Internets
So……somehow, despite proper backups, I managed to totally hose my previous WordPress install. As you can see from the picture, I’m all set to go now.
I have not decided if I will restore all of my backed up posts, sometimes it is just good to do a fresh install, sort of like Microsoft Windows. I’m just not one of those people that has to have all of my blog posts over the years up on my blog.
