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Ruby on Rails Expert Links to us…

peter-cooper-small.jpgWe are humbled by Peter Cooper’s latest link to our blog.  Peter has been blogging since 1999 and is considered to be the formost Ruby on Rails expert in the United Kingdom.  He runs two cool companies:  Feed Digest and BigBold.  I will have to admit I had never heard of Peter, but our developers sure have.  Our past projects are primarily LAMP, but our new stuff is all RoR and AJAX.

Weblogs Work Gets TechCrunched

techcrunch_wwprof.jpgTechcrunch has a new profile of Weblogs Work, in which they say:

"Weblogs Work, based in Dallas, Texas, is a web 2.0 consultancy, incubator and overall cool group of people. I’m finding that I spend more and more time talking with these guys about new ideas, and we are linking to each other so often that people are starting to talk."  Awesome.  

Weblogs Work for Independent Fabrication

painting.jpgThis evening I caught an episode of The Turnaround with Ali Velshi.  The program profiled a company called Independent Fabrication that builds custom bikes (very custom).  The company is owned exclusively by the employees – an interesting group of 13 people.

I checked Technorati and found two blogs closely associated with the company.  The first, Riding Independent, is written by Team Green who races IF bikes.  The second is by the Woman’s Mountain Bike Team (who ride IF Singlespeed bikes).  As far as I can tell there is no corporate blog.

Check out the website for the company here.  We would love to see them start blogging; really interesting people with a very interesting story.  If you are with IF click here

Hurricane Katrina – Get Out!

hurricain.jpgOur prayers are with our friends in the path of Katrina.  If we can do anything to help please let us know.  Oh and if you are hanging around, I would recommend getting out ASAP!

Update: Brian set up the Slidell Hurricane Katarina Damage Blog – check it out.    

 

Legal Bloggers’ Most Common Mistakes

lawblog.jpgI read an interesting post from Dennis Kennedy detailing the most common mistakes made by legal bloggers (and bloggers in general).  Check out his post here, but here is a short version of his list:

  • Launch a blog without trying to understand the blog culture or the blogging world.
  • Don’t post on a topic that you clearly got from another blogger without crediting that blogger for pointing out the link, article or resource to you.
  • Falling for the common advice about getting reciprocal links and treating prominent bloggers as if they offer a free search engine enhancement service.
  • Being overly-familiar with existing bloggers or taking pot-shots at existing bloggers to make a name for yourself.
  • My Pet Peeve: Being a New Blogger Who Lectures People About the One True Path of Blogging
  • Think Carefully About This Anonymous Thing.
  • The Biggest Mistake: Not Using Full Text Feeds in 2005.
  • Bonus: Not Treating Your Blog Launch Like the Launch of a Publication.

Good points for anyone considering blogging!  Thanks Dennis. 

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