Rafael Marquez Online

Photo by: engineroomblog on Flickr I like how this article addresses this issue. At times, I struggle with the idea of whether I’m a “journalist” or not. It used to be, that only people that were published in a magazine, or a newspaper were “real” journalists. The rest of us were just “wannabees” or “not good enough to get a job writing for the paper” or the second rung plain and simple “bloggers.” Bottom line, I keep a “journal” which [...]

I caught up with Ileen Haddad aka @ileenieweenie on Twitter during blogathonatx on Saturday, August 26 2010. Blogathonatx, was in my opinion, a smash hit. Unfortunately, I was not able to partake in the beer consumption, but I did enjoy the company and the atmosphere at the place.

The reason I like this article, is that not only does the writer tell you what to do, he shows you samples of how to do it right and how not to do it. The main reason I dislike this post, is that you can’t really create viral content. Content goes viral, or it does not. You can do things to help content go viral, but you can’t just “create” viral content. Why do I say it like that? Because [...]

First, let me say that I love 3.0. I really feel like 3.0 is the next step in the democratization of the web. Having said that, I have had issues after updating on 1, and only 1 of my sites (out of 30+ that I own and manage) to WordPress 3.0. Here are the details on the issues I was experiencing: Symptoms: When uploading pictures to the affected site, the photo uploads without any problem. After it uploads, I go [...]

Here’s a cool, and very quick, video about WordPress 3.0 and all of its new features. I’ve upgraded several of my blogs and am loving 3.0, so far. Can’t wait to test out the new multi-blog features. Have you updated your blogs to 3.0?

Over on brainz.org they have a great write up about DMCA takedowns. DMCA stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Its a piece of legislation that was supposed to protect the rights of the copyright holders in the new digital millenium. Like any legislation, it can be used for good or for evil. Fortunately, the folks over at Brainz.com have broken down how a DMCA works to show us how to file a DMCA claim to protect our copyrights. They also [...]

These are the slides from Wayne Sutton’s presentation at SXSWi 2010. I love the bacon slide. In any case, the thing that’s missing from the slides, is the part about how to do it. Alas, methinks that’s a topic for another day. Becoming Real-Time Video Blogger in 2010 View more presentations from Wayne Sutton. I think that a couple of slides about “how to do it” rather than just about the “becoming” part would’ve done wonders. I missed the presentation [...]

Social Mouths has a great article about things that you, as a non-expert, can do to improve your SEO. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and is essentially the art of bringing people to your site based on what they type into Google. By Google, I mean the search engines. The advise is very good, and very basic, so it is definitely something that you can do on your own, without having to hire me or someone like me. Enjoy [...]

I read this awhile back and meant to link to it but kept forgetting. It’s a post by Denise Wakeman, and she goes over 13 mistakes that we bloggers make. I am guilty of making a lot of the mistakes on the list. Here’s a taste of the post, of course you’ll ahve to go to her blog to get the rest of the story. Content: Not posting frequently enough. Content is not focused or optimized for the search engines. [...]

I still haven’t quite settled in to what I want to do with this site. As you can see, I’ve created the subdomain http://blog.rafaelmarquez.me for my blog, but I still haven’t quite decided what I want to showcase here. On a different note: SXSWi was a crazy good time. The one thing that I got out of it, actually the biggest thing that I got out of it is that I need to focus. I need to seriously focus and [...]