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Blog World Expo 2009: Steve Rubel talks about lifestreaming using Posterous and other tools
I was in Vegas last week for Blog World Expo, a fairly small convention for bloggers and other social media pros. Most conferences we go to are a complete waste of time, so I was hesitant to go. But it turned out to be one of the coolest, most valuable tech meet ups I've attended Blog World Expo is a gathering of bloggers, *our users*. I was able to meet a ton of Posterous users, people who should be on Posterous, and lots of people who teach blogging for a living. It was a great way to see how people blog and what features they need. Blog World Expo felt more "real" than conferences like SXSW. The sessions were actually useful, people were actually there to share and learn. People were talking about Twitter and how best to use Twitter, but they weren't blinded by Twitter. I particularly enjoyed listening to Jay Thompson talk about how he uses social media. "Don’t write for the search engines, write for your readers." Trying to get more page views and more followers is just ego. SXSW, on the other hand, is all about networking. It's about meeting people and going to parties. That's definitely fun, but it's not clear to me why we all need to travel to Austin for this, or why we need to spend money on the conference, or how people can afford to take so much time off. Posterous will definitely be at Blog World Expo in the coming years, probably with a booth next year. Doesn't hurt that I totally love Vegas :).
My new business card
An essential accoutrement when you start a new job.
Photo taken with my Nokia N95 8GB. Always a sense of wonder in how really outstanding the camera is on this mobile device. Minor tweaks (applying contrast filter mostly) in Paint Shop Pro X2.
Eight years...
Eight years ago at this moment I was talking with Dave Winer. We could not believe what we were seeing on CNN.
The World Trade Center coming down was a metaphor for my own life coming down. Over the next few months I got in a car wreck that totalled my car and left me thinking "that could have been it." That led to ending my marriage. Starting a new relationship and getting engaged to Maryam. We shipped a new product at work (Radio UserLand, which took a lot of long hours). I was running the books at UserLand and knew we were running out of money quickly and that soon I'd be jobless. In March, six months after 9/11, I laid myself off. Oh, and my grandma died there and I'm sure some other things went wrong too. It seemed my entire world was crashing down.
But those six months were transformative.
First, I said to myself "well, if life is going to whack me, I'm going to have fun!"
Second, I made every day better than yesterday.
It made life very simple and when I've failed I go back again to these two thoughts. Make the world better (that's how you make tomorrow better than today) and remember that someday we all end up in a box anyway so might as well take some risks and have some fun now cause this story doesn't end well.
But today I'm looking back at the last eight years and all that's gone on. The interesting people I've interviewed (more than 1,500). The book I wrote with Shel Israel. All the blog posts. The time spent on Twitter and FriendFeed and Facebook. The technology I've seen change (I'm working on a video of how cars are changing due to technology right now).
My new son, who now is two years old, and a new one on the way. I look with pride at Patrick, who now is 15. He was six back then and I wanted him to watch all the events unfolding on CNN so he would know why he had to wait in long lines at the airport and would know why his life had other problems that I never faced earlier in my life. He still is scared of flying on planes. I hope he gets over that.
Maryam and I have had an extraordinary amount of fun and we've been around the world lots of times (Milan, now two, has been to Europe four times).
The past eight years have been extraordinary in my life. But it all started with that morning eight years ago when life reminded me that we're not in control and that all we have is now.
One reason why Posterous gives you pretty kickass SEO
Use a Constant Theme
When all of your content is able to fit within the same constant theme this makes it easier for search engines to recognize the difference between the theme and the content itself, and in the long run makes it easier for search engines to index your content. If possible, keep your theme consent throughout the entire website.
via shayhowe.com
Just saw this on a list of ways to get better SEO -- turns out using one common theme for all content makes it easier for search engines to determine what's content and what's formatting.
Posterous has only one theme (for now), so we certainly take advantage of that SEO quirk.
Read more about how SEO is affected by domains and URLs here.
