Monthly Archives: September 2007

Joey DeVilla Gives Props to PressHarbor

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We got an email earlier this week from Accordion Guy Joey DeVilla, who recently switched to our PressHarbor service after his blog got cut off from Dreamhost for “eating too many CPU cycles”:

Over the past couple of days, my blog got:

- Boing Boinged,
(http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/23/simpsons-film-refere.html)

- Instalanched
(http://instapundit.com/archives2/009756.php)

- Metafiltered,
(http://www.metafilter.com/64936/D’oh)

- and Defamed
(http://defamer.com/hollywood/short-ends/no-tv-and-no-beer-make-homer-something-something-303231.php)

and still I see no slowdowns and have had no tech support people emailing me to tell me that they had to take my site down. My heartiest compliments to you and the rest of the PressHarbor crew!

How’s that for a testimonial?

Thanks, Joey!

Zoli Chronicles His Move to PressHarbor

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ZolimugZoli chronicled his move to PressHarbor yesterday in My Move from Blogware to WordPress. Lots of great info for anyone considering moving from BlogHarbor or any other Blogware-based service to WordPress in general or PressHarbor in particular. An excerpt:

Now, since I’ve talked so much about why I left [for] WordPress, I’m sure you expect a description of the actual migration process. I’m afraid I’ll disappoint: the migration was a non-event. I made the call, and two days later my blog was up an running on WordPress. Old posts, comments, trackbacks, pictures – Pressharbor took care of it. My main concern was not to lose links, trackbacks to old posts: while Blogware had their own cryptic permalink structure, on WordPress I am using the SEO-friendly title-based permalink formula. Pressharbor set up 301 redirects for every single of my old posts, and in a few days I saw Google reindex all and point to the new permalinks.

A great read for anyone considering a move to our new PressHarbor platform.

Airpress Blogging Client for Multimedia Blogging

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Airpress seems like a cool new blogging client: add text, sound, video, webcam, and flash animations to your blog with a single blogging client. (Hat tip Matt.)

Requires Adobe’s new AIR – Adobe Integrated Runtime, “a cross-operating system runtime that allows web application developers to use their existing web development skills (HTML, Javascript, Adobe Flash®, Adobe Flex™, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.”

Don’t Taze Me, Bro! Dot Com

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A University of Florida student was tasered during a John Kerry speech recently:

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

I don’t have enough time to get into how I feel about that, but I just want to link to the following:

‘Don’t Taze Me, Bro!’ Merchandise Now Available

And of course, someone registered DontTazeMeBro.com:

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: DONTTAZEMEBRO.COM
Created on: 18-Sep-07
Expires on: 18-Sep-08
Last Updated on: 18-Sep-07

What if you could…

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Beautiful statement by Jason Calacanis today:

… I’m amazed at how pessimistic the average person is. I’ve come to realize in my career is that the difference between people who gets things done and those who do not is this pessimism. I’ve always been attracted to the folks who say “what if we could…” or “what if you.” When I hear people talk like that I get engaged. When I hear “that’s been done already….” and “that will never work…” I want to walk away from the conversation. I guess that means I’m delusional on some level, and I’m realizing that the best products and companies out there are typically lead by delusional people who hire people who are very obsessive about details–but who are also dreamers.

What if you could…

Can you picture someone with a twinkle in their eye saying those words? Those are the people you should stay close to.

MetsBlog makes the move to PressHarbor!

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We just moved Matthew Cerrone’s Metsblog from its home on BlogHarbor, our Blogware-based blog hosting service, to our new WordPress hosting service PressHarbor.

Matt wanted to move to WordPress to offer some additional functionality to his community that was not possible with a Blogware-based blog, so he chose to move his site to our new PressHarbor plaform. On Saturday night, we moved over 10,000 articles to his new WordPress site; Matt woke up this morning to find that all of his articles for the past 3 years were now in his new blog… He was pretty excited about the move, and his readers were very enthusiastic about the change, saying that the new site was “blazing fast”, “incredibly fast,” “superfast”…

Best of luck on MetsBlog 3.0, Matt!

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I am most like Chris Pirillo!

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ChrispirilloI just took Technosailor’s hilarious Self Importance Test, which lets you know which online “celebrity” you most resemble, and it informed that I am most like Chris Pirillo!

You are most like Chris Pirillo. You dominate your brand and do quite well in marketing it. However, you go out of the way to place the focus on other people as much as possible as a decision on power and authority. You may have many followers, readers or fans but you rarely let this distract you from your mission and focus.

I don’t know if I should be flattered or flabbergasted…

WordPress Per Category Styles

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Lorelle’s Using WordPress Categories To Style Posts has some very useful info on setting CSS classes depending on the category in which an article is posted.

Blogware has very deep support for per-category stylesheets, and even complete per-category templating, but WordPress doesn’t seem to have as much depth in this area. Anyone know of a plugin which makes it easier to do per-category styles?