Inside The Redbox

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The Business Of Writing Group

Like most writers, I want to spend more time writing, and focus on building a long term writing career, but I know just writing isn't enough. There is a business to writing. And if this part is ignored your successes will be limited. Off the top of my head I can think of marketing, selling, social network interactions, accounting, contracts, and negotiations. Writing something only get's you part of the way there.The last few writing conferences I've attended have all been about the act of writing. I don't know if this is planned,...

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WordPress 3.1 Has A Feature List

Last week the development team for WordPress came up with a list of features/bug fixes they want to include in 3.1. As with all software, the end result may differ from this list. Check it out here.Two things I'm excited about, and really hope are implemented, is a new multi site Admin, and a configurable Dashboard. This is kind of interesting, because...

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Why iTunes Ping Will Suffer Like Google Wave

There are a few reason I think iTunes Ping will, in the long run, fail. I realize the service has only been available for a few days, but I can already see it has the same problem Google Wave had when it was released. It's not part of everyones workflow.For one, you must have iTunes, not everyone uses iTunes. Until there is some type of web interface...

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Join Me For #devchat On Twitter

I started a Twitter chat called #devchat, all about the software development business. Right now the time is every Wednesday at 7PM MST. Everyone is welcome, but I'm hoping this will be a very technical discussion. A little background on Twitter Chats here.Please follow the Twitter user @dev_chat, and use http://TweetChat.com to follow #devchat. No need to register, but you can find more information here.Please Tweet this, blog about it, post to Facebook, or any other resource you use to communicate with other devs....

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