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Jared W. Smith: The Blog
http://blog.jaredwsmith.com
Jared W. Smith is a 23-year-old IT nerd and perennial college student in Charleston, South Carolina. He's maintained some sort of presence on the Web since 1998 and has been blogging since before "blogging" became a term (the year 2000, to be exact). He was a 2004 Microsoft MVP for Windows Server and has his hands in a variety of Web sites. He is a co-author of Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress (Apress 2006), contributing six chapters' worth of phpBB knowledge.
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Apple Store Saturday
The King Street Apple Store opens Saturday at 10 am. I’m thinking about dropping in to check out the hysteria — anyone else?...
Post & Courier offers buyouts to employees
The Post & Courier is offering to buy out their employees to help cut back salaries without layoffs. This scares me. We need newsrooms; despite the rise of citizen journalism, there is still an important place for the trained, professional new...
A scorcher in store
Charleston’s got another scorcher in store for today, with a heat advisory in effect once again from noon until 9 PM for heat indices over 105 degrees. With such heat and humidity, thunderstorms are a distinct possibility, much in the way they...
The New Facebook
Facebook is publicly beta testing a drastic redesign of their site to try to allay a lot of complaints that the site has become extremely cluttered with applications (oh, has it ever). While reactions seem mixed, I think this new design has a potent...
Serious Business: Web PR, Cell Phones, and more!
Tonight’s Serious Business was a resounding success. Thanks to everybody who stopped in and really made it something great. Here’s hoping next week is just as good. Here’s the recorded show, in case you missed it — and it wa...
