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Wouldn’t it be great to hear, the FDA issues a social media policy. Though the FDA loves to plan to discuss, to plan to create, to plan to someday maybe act on planning a social media policy and guideline for use by those whose jobs and businesses rely on the FDA’s approval and clearance, the FDA has remained, like much of our government, indecisive. Currently, the FDA’s site likes to direct ...

/rant on Somewhere out in marketing land someone has been trying to sell people on the idea that installing a CMS, such as Wordpress or Drupal, will somehow make all your Webmaster or Web Designer needs go away. If you’ve believed this, I’m sorry to tell you, but unless your site is just text, you’re probably wrong. While you can hire a Web Developer or Agency to build out a custom theme ...

Google+ Circles need work. Granted it’s in beta, but what is missing shows a clear lack of understanding by Google Developers on the users of social networking platforms. This isn’t surprising though as their track record with social media has been a bumpy road. Google has done a lot of things very well. They launched a search engine in 1997 that changed the way we find information. Between 2000 and 2003 ...

The internet is full of crap, but not everything on the internet is crap is what has been coming across my monitor these past few hours. I recently was updating a Wikipedia page with a link to a well written review from Examiner.com when I found out that Examiner.com is on Wikipedia’s blacklist. This lead me to check out what other sites may be blocked and eventually I stumbled upon ...

If you’re graphic designer or web designer interested in switching to Linux to save on costs or maybe get more hands on experience administrating a LAMP, here is what I recommend for your base setup. Please note, these are my suggestions for Design applications on Linux only, I'll tackle the LAMP software in my next post. My Linux Flavor Choice: Fedora running Gnome3 Why Fedora? I come from a dabbler of Red ...

For those who are unaware I recently left my Overlord position at Team San Jose and have began contracting for Stanford.edu as one of their webmasters. The reasons were…my own…and while I find myself beginning to settle into the new position I am excited to have an opportunity to be more hands on with Drupal, HTML5, CSS2 and PHP. While I can continue to stay current with social media outlets ...

So unless you’ve been living under a rock you have probably heard by now that Bing is copying Google search results. Ok, so not exactly copying them, but the user data that Microsoft collects is essentially making Bing give the same level of value to websites as Google does and as a direct result many sites that rank on the first page of Google will have these same rankings on ...

Last month I was a speaker in a webinar on Cloud Computing, from Concept to Reality. For those that are not familiar, this opportunity presented itself when I took over web operations last year for Team San Jose where we moved the web hosting to an Amazon EC2 setup from a shared hosting platform. The webinar was hosted by DMAI, Destination Marketing Association International, which is an organization where I sit ...

I was recently on a brief vacation where the subject of local content distribution came up, though primarily, how one can start putting together an online portfolio of sorts around content creation. Now the following is simply my own advice and what I deem are worthwhile activities for those looking to go into this type of career. While it goes without saying that you have your own site, even if it’s simply ...