Staying on top of social media and podcasting has been my focus for the past couple of years. Today I took a look at my Firefox bookmarks and was shocked at how outdated (therefore useless!) they have become. Ditto my blog reader program files. So, before your next scheduled backup, take a trip down memory [...]

What set of tools, software and equipment do you use to produce your podcast? After a year, my co-podcaster, Tara Fort, and I are still experimenting and learning. We record our own conversations while in the same room, using digital recorders. Interviews are either recorded while in the same place as the interviewee, using digital [...]

If you’re still on the fence about blogging or what to do with your dusty old web site that’s sorely in need of a face lift, snap up my new guide on web development. There are a lot more of us out there on our own these days, and it’s hard to do it all [...]

Mending clothes, making basic automotive repairs, fixing plumbing leaks, and the ability to “McGyver” amazing contraptions all may seem like they are too challenging for people raised in this techno era. Tapping into your inner grandpa and grandma may inspire you to look around at what you can fix or repurpose in your closets and [...]

Social Media sites have been heralded as the latest and best way to network and establish your brand. When you’re your own boss, your time is your own and without someone peering over your shoulder, you can Tweet/Plurk/Flickr/Facebook/LinkedIn your day away if you like. Just how many minutes a day can you justify without cutting [...]

Like many small developers, I built a number of websites between 1998 and 2002 using the then standard approach of hand-coded HTML and, later, a web editing program. Then, there were a number of sites created between 2002 and 2005, built on amassed HTML knowledge and reflecting my earliest flirtation with with Cascading Style Sheets [...]

Update on Geekgyrls: As of this writing (October 22, 2008), Geekgyrls is closed and offline. Internet Marketing Specialist Anna Baron, owner of The Virtual Link, is launching a new forum just for us girls. Make that gyrls. Make that geek gyrls. Anna describes Geekgyrls.com like this: “It’s just a fun place to hang out, share [...]

Whatever your level of expertise, whatever tools you use, would you like to help A List Apart get a clear picture of who does web design? Here’s the what & why: “The information you’ve so generously shared with A List Apart will help us form a picture of the ways web design is practiced around [...]

This is an undertaking that involves a huge leap of faith! Note from ktcosmos: This article was originally developed at the request of a colleague, who was tackling a conversion project herself. She published it on her new blog but then contacted me recently to say she had grown frustrated and stressed out over the [...]

In response to Lorelle on WordPress‘s weekly blogging challenge, I am considering the changes computer software has wrought in my life. I can still recall hearing the name Microsoft sometime in the early 80′s, and wondering just what that even referred to?! At that time, the computer I had at my disposal at work only [...]