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There are lots of Innovative ways to use Wordpress, because of its flexible plugin and theming architecture. I am compiling list of websites and look at how you can use WordPress to create a variety of different types of sites and manage different functionalities. As you’ll see with a bit of cleverness, the sky is the limit! - Brad Fitzpatrick

(And she takes a good swipe at Secretary of State Hitlery Clinton too. Maddow almost sounds like Ron Paul. On this issue, I’m sure she would take that as a compliment.) - Brad Fitzpatrick

What if your organization or your client has done nothing? What if they've just watched the last fourteen years go by? No real website, no social media, no permission assets. What if now they're ready and they ask your advice? And, by the way, they have no real cash to spend... Here's a list of my top ten things to consider doing: * Use gmail to give every person in the organization that can read English an email address. * Use a free website creating tool or even Squidoo to build a page about your company. Nothing fancy, but list your locations, your people (with addresses) and make it clear you want to hear from people. - Brad Fitzpatrick

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The state thrives and expands on crises. As HL Mencken put it: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." The global financial crisis, in addition to global terrorism, swine flu, etc., has become one of the state’s best mates, used as a rationalization and justification for more government intervention - Brad Fitzpatrick

Well, for a few months we’ve been using a cracking WordPress plugin (OK, I developed it so I’m somewhat biased :) ) inside of the Immediate Edge which has seen our opt-ins and our affiliate product sales increase five fold and I’ve decided to give it away to you guys for free. The plugin is a LightSqueeze overlay which performs a little like a pop-up, where your affiliate / product offer is shown after a short delay to the people landing on your website. - Brad Fitzpatrick

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a 2,000 page bill to give the federal government the power to micromanage the health care of every single American. The bill will no doubt pass. It will raise your taxes, steal your freedom, invade your privacy, and ration your health care. Even the Republicans have introduced their version of Obamacare Lite. It, too, if passed, will compel employers to provide coverage, bribe the states to change their court rules, and tell insurance companies whom to insure. We do not have two political parties in this country, America. We have one party; called the Big Government Party. The Republican wing likes deficits, war, and assaults on civil liberties. The Democratic wing likes wealth transfer, taxes, and assaults on commercial liberties. Both parties like power; and neither is interested in your freedoms. - Brad Fitzpatrick

How YOU can REALLY reach $100/day + w/Adsense! Note: I was inspired to do this post largely by Xfactor's monsterously generous threads. I've been doing Adsense for a looong time. It's not my only source of revenue, or my biggest. But it IS my favorite (more on that below). I see a lot of bad information, bad advice, mis-information. The plain truth is that Adsense can be a terrific way to make money, that it can generate substantial income, and that it isn't really all that hard to do - if you do it 'right'. With this post, I'll lay out an outline that you can use to get to $100/day with Adsense. While the $100 figure is somewhat arbitrary, it does take time & effort, so there's a limit to what you can do, HOWEVER, nearly everything can be outsourced, so once you understand it, there's no reason you couldn't scale it up almost indefinitely. - Brad Fitzpatrick

OK, here’s the 60-day backlinking experiment that I will be running and documenting in this sub-forum starting on Thursday 17 September 2009. Hopefully this ambitious public experiment will help many Warriors here and you’ll enjoy the ride! I don’t remember seeing anything like this on Warrior Forum before so it should be interesting and possibly sort out a few SEO/SEM myths from facts (and maybe prove that different Search Engine strategies can each achieve the same objective). Starting on Thursday 17 September 2009, I will simultaneously run 4 different SEM (Search Engine Marketing) strategies on 3 different NEW GoArticles in the same niche plus one BRAND NEW website BUT with approximately the same search volume for the 4 different keywords. - Brad Fitzpatrick

In about:config, changing browser.sessionstore.interval to a much higher value (like 100000, = 100 seconds) will alleviate the problem. It seems to have fixed my problem with using streaming Netflix, which would inexplicably drop a few frames every what-turns-out-to-be 10 seconds. This irritated me to no end (well, some end). It also works for YouTube, if that has been causing problems. Original thread here. Be sure to give logantauranga some karma. * Pertinent info: You can get to about:config by typing it into your address bar. Read the notice and click "I'll be careful, I promise!" - You can find browser.sessionstore.interval by typing it into the text box that appears next to "Filter" at the top. Double-click what comes up, and change the value to 100000 (one hundred thousand). - Brad Fitzpatrick

I’ve got to be honest, I hated writing the title to this post, it reminded me (and still does) of the many ghastly SEO blogs, sites and ebooks, each with their own disastrous approaches to supposedly helping you get to the top of Google. If you know me and/or read this site, you should hopefully by now realise I’m not a bullshitter and what I’m about to explain genuinely does work (sigh…again, this sounds like an informercial but I promise, I’m not selling a thing). - Brad Fitzpatrick

One of the key researchers involved in the clinical trials for both Gardasil and Cevarix cervical cancer vaccines has gone public with warnings about their safety and effectiveness. This highly unusual warning against these vaccines by one of Big Pharma's own researchers surfaced in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Express in the UK over the last few days. There, Dr. Diane Harper openly admitted the vaccine doesn't even prevent cervical cancer, stating, "[The vaccine] will not decrease cervical cancer rates at all." - Brad Fitzpatrick

One of the best things about the Wordpress platform is the extensive list of plugins available to extend and add new functionality to your site. Let’s take a look at the 20 most commonly used plugins on Wordpress blogs across the web, including those that provide additional features, to those that simply alleviate the simple tasks of running a blog. - Brad Fitzpatrick

via bradfitzpatrick.com Here's a great little chef hat clipart graphic... ... - Brad Fitzpatrick

This is a pretty funny little caricature of Jennifer Hudson. Jennifer Hudson clip art Jennifer Hudson via JAN OP DE BEECK by janopdebeeck on 9/17/09 ... - Brad Fitzpatrick

Great Caricature of Lauren Bacall! Lauren Bacall via JAN OP DE BEECK by janopdebeeck on 9/17/09 ... - Brad Fitzpatrick

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Raccoon Clip Art - Brad Fitzpatrick

WordPress is known as one of the most powerful open-source blogging platform, but it can be a lot more then just a blogging platform. We already know about using WordPress as a content management system (CMS), but WordPress is much more flexible than that. With the combine use of plugins, and hacks, WordPress can be used in many unique and unconventional ways. In this article we will highlight some of the most unconventional uses of WordPress and show you how you can use WordPress in these unconventional way as well. - Brad Fitzpatrick

WordPress is a good CMS solution and even better blogging platform, but most sites using WordPress are not maximizing its potential. Performance is one of the important factor of a successful website. In this article we have compiled a list of useful tips, tricks, hacks, and plugins that can be used to speed up WordPress and boost it’s performance. - Brad Fitzpatrick

This is a great caricature of Billy Mays - Brad Fitzpatrick

The Photoshop community is choc-full of many free resources, tutorials, tips and techniques, .psd files and even Actions. There is one area that it sadly lacks in, and that is free plugins and filters. Of course, Photoshop has been the pioneer in graphic editor development for a long time now, and with each new version (its current version is CS4) has added an endless supply of features and addons, and as a result, perhaps the need for free plugins or filters is no longer required. Or has it been ignored? - Brad Fitzpatrick

Advertising can be creative and even purposely funny. But sometimes, an ad on a bad place can have unexpected results! Here is a list of 15 unfortunately Placed Ads. - Brad Fitzpatrick

I’ve seen a lot of tutorials for creating torn paper edges in Photoshop; some of them are highly detailed and time-consuming, others are adequate but leave a bit to be desired. Either way, there are a lot of ways that you can produce torn paper edges in Photoshop. The best way I’ve found however is with a handy set of Photoshop brushes. - Brad Fitzpatrick

Twitter seems to have come out of nowhere to become one of the world’s most popular online social services behind Facebook and MySpace. Twitter now has millions of users, and even Oprah got on it, putting it in the minds of millions more yet (and irking thousands of existing users in the process). Celebrities and CNN are all about Twitter now, it seems. But most of the people on twitter are your peers and your clients and customers. Simply put, if you’re not using Twitter, you’re missing the party. You know, the one where all the deals get made behind the scenes. The one you’ll regret not joining. If you’re using it but you’re still wondering what all the shouting’s about, you could probably use some help in getting more from it. This going to be a big post. I’ve put a lot of work into it to make it the ultimate resource for you. It’s even got its own table of contents: - Brad Fitzpatrick

Blogs are evolving, and fast. Long gone are the days when pure link blogs reined king of the web. Today popular, authoritative blogs are made up of deep content, written by those passionate and knowledgeable about specific niches. And as content gets more intricate and authors spend more time honing their craft, they want to put in that extra effort to make their material stand out. One of the best ways to do this is through the use of compelling imagery to reinforce strong writing. - Brad Fitzpatrick

This post is part of a weekly series showcasing inspirational vector art. Although the series showcases vector art, some work might just be vector inspired, not created completely with vector art. - Brad Fitzpatrick

Here's an excellent Cartoon caricature of the great Forrest Whitaker - Brad Fitzpatrick

RIP Andrew Wyeth... you were awesome - Brad Fitzpatrick

I love Harrison Ford and I especially like this caricature of Harrison Ford... aka Indiana Jones and Han Solo! - Brad Fitzpatrick