If you are using the default permalink settings for your Wordpress blog, you need to stop what you are doing (after you read this post) and FIX IT right now.

Local technology coach and consultant, Mr. Noobie, is giving away a free Nintendo Wii on his site, www.noobie.com. All you need to do is click over and sign-up. After you sign-up to win, I’d highly recommend browsing the website for a little bit. No matter what your technical skill level is, noobie.com is one website [...]

Most people that know me know that I’m a bit domain-crazy. Any half-good idea that I have usually results in a domain name purchase–mostly as a “just in case” I decide to actually develop it. Despite the fact that this is a self-enabling and productivity damaging practice, I still partake in it. However, I have significantly limited myself in terms of what I let myself purchase (the next step was locking my laptop in a trunk and burying it in the back yard).

I’ll update this post with more commentary later. But, for now, here it is! Get the Flash Player to see this player. var s1 = new SWFObject(“http://noahcoffey.com/video/player.swf”,”ply”,”320″,”240″,”9″,”#FFFFFF”); s1.addParam(“allowfullscreen”,”true”); s1.addParam(“allowscriptaccess”,”always”); s1.addParam(“flashvars”,”file=fox59-blogindiana-seg2.flv”); s1.write(“container”); Video courtesy of Fox59!  

If you find yourself having difficulty blogging regularly, I’ve found that sometimes the key is to make the technical part of the act of blogging easier and more convenient. Integrating the ability to blog into applications or websites you normally use can not only make blogging easier, but encourage it.

I’ve been playing around with the publisher tools for 4INFO.net and have put together a convenient way to search Twitter for a keyword via your cell phone using a text message.