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Entries for March, 2009

Declaring Email Bankruptcy

I’ve decided that I’m going to declare bankruptcy on my inbox sometime this week.
What’s a bankrupt inbox?
Well, since I am now 12 hours off from most of the continental US there is virtually no chance for me to catch up on emails as speedily as I used to. Waking up every morning with over 100 [...]

Outbound Link Value on Lenses

I’ve heard several questions the past week about ‘when’ or ‘how’ to add external links (links to other sites) to lenses.
I try to follow a few basic rules of thumb that work quite well for me.
1) add ‘rel=nofollow’ to affiliate links – Especially if they link to some crazy domain or something. Besides, you aren’t [...]

Doing the Server Dance

As all of our various projects and adventures have grown, we have yet again outgrown our servers.
This week, we are in the process of upgrading to a full dedicated server setup as well as consolidating several hosting accounts into one in order to better manage our growth.
While this is quite exciting and a sign that [...]

Thoughts on Group Authored Lenses

I’ve been toying with some different ideas on how to have multiple lensmasters ‘author’ a single lens and yet not have to set up a new Squidoo account specifically for the new lens. An example would be a lens with group Q&A sections or expert interviews that constantly change or have new content added regularly.
Here’s [...]

Now Broadcasting from Singapore

After taking the last few weeks to take care of stuff before I moved to Asia for the forseeable future, the Captain is now up and running in Singapore! For those of you keeping track that puts me at GMT +8 or roughly 12 hours off of most timezones in the US.
Which means that I’ll [...]