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My friend Dave Offen just launched a massive Giveaway Event: ebooks, software and scripts – all around the subject of blogging and making money. Or both…

These Giveaway events are becoming more and more popular in the internet marketing circles. I predict we will see them even more often, especially, after the release of the Giveaway Riches (aff) by Jason James.

I also benefited several times of the useful informational products or scripts made available through giveaway events, so I thought it was time to “give back” something, as the usual phrase says. Nothing fancy, just packed my best tutorials in a neat little e-book and set up a page for it. For future events I might do some newer stuff, too…

I am again very pleasantly surprised how smooth the upgrade to the latest (beta!) version of WordPress was. The 2.7 version, which brings a lot of new features and a completely renewed admin panel, initially has been scheduled to be released as of tomorrow (Nov 11) but will be delayed …

This must be the craziest cowpetition on the net: each of the two guys are starting a blog and after 30 days they will put it up for sale. The winner will be the blog that sells for more. It has been dubbed already as “Conn man vs. Cow man” …

The previous two posts were a kind of in-depth experiment with the new Gallery and Media Library features of WordPress 2.5.x. As you could see I uploaded quite a number of images and used extensively this new feature, so now I can evaluate them more thoroughly.

Things that I like:
easy multiple …

As I mentioned in my welcome post at this new location, there are two older blogs here – merged in one database. I remember questions about how to do it in the WordPress forums, so I thought I should document the process for the benefit of other bloggers that want …

I have known Jim Kukral for a while from earlier net ventures but this newest invention, as he puts it: the “fancy tip jar for your blog” is really fun!

You can see it installed on the right in the sidebar. The idea is simple and is much better …

From this Winnipeg basement where I am writing this, a WordCamp in Vancouver or in Toronto seems equally far away: both are at about 2,000 km distance. So, no wonder I have missed the one in Vancouver at the end of April, although it seemed to be a smaller “local” …

As I have announced in my old (terminated) blog the other day: I moved all the posts from the “Playing with WordPress” to this new location, and also merged into it posts from a quite neglected blog of mine, called “My Prairie Gazette”. If you were reading either of those …

One of the most important plugins on this blog is helping to post code snippets in the various tutorials I publish.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work with the latest WordPress 2.5 version. Since Matt was one of the developers of the plugin… we can just hope that soon there will be an …

Everybody is talking about the coming WP 2.5 (version 2.4 is skipped). A few weeks ago I started to take a closer look at the nightly builds.

The biggest change (at least on the surface) happened in the admin panel which has been completely reorganized. At the time of the transition from 1.5 to 2.x the basic layout of the dashboard and admin panels didn’t change radically; it was more about getting colours and some “ajaxification”.

This time the changes are big. And I don’t refer to the colours (which you can restore anyway, if the dark blue makes you happier!). It is about the organizing principle behind it and how it translates into buttons, panels and subpanels. I don’t understand why some users are complaining about it. It is cleaner, more logical and easy to use. Yes, you will have to spend a few minutes to learn the new layout and/or the name of the new buttons (new name of some buttons?) – but it’s worth.

Just minutes ago I checked the SVN and the current version WP 2.5-RC2 (release candidate 2). Which means we are getting closer and closer to the final. And Matt just posted a screencast about some new features in the WP dev blog.