From the monthly archives:

March 2009

31 Days to a Better Blog

March 31, 2009 1 comment

Ever since coming across ProBlogger.com, I’ve been impressed with the practical, helpful tips the site’s creator, Darren Rowse, provides. A lot of his tips have to do with monetizing your blog, but there’s also a lot of great articles about content, SEO and usability. As great as the tips are, I’ve never really taken too […]

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Why WordPress?

March 30, 2009 3 comments

I got an email from one of my Twitter friends asking for my thoughts on WordPress. It’s a great question, and I thought I’d share some of my thoughts here.  I started using WordPress only after trying every other blogging software out there. I started on Blogger, moved to Xanga and then went back to Blogger. […]

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Bobby gets his props

March 29, 2009 1 comment

Check out the story in today’s Wichita Eagle about my friend and favorite-local-blogger-who-links-to-me-often, Bobby Rozzell. Aside from one factual error in the story – Bobby was never a pastor, as we don’t use that word – Denise Neil truly captured the essence of what Douglas and Main is all about. Check out the full story here.

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A little clarification

March 17, 2009 2 comments

About three months ago, I wrote a blog post about the Church of Christ, predicting its demise. The comments in the post mostly agreed with my position, and aside from my dad, nobody really talked to me about it too much. Since the post was published, I’ve received several emails from people who disagree strongly with […]

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TwitchHiking and the Power of Tweets

March 16, 2009 1 comment

Wichita was graced by an Internet celebrity last Thursday night. Paul Smith, better known as the “TwitchHiker,” spent a couple of hours hanging out with some folks at a tweetup held in his honor. Smith is on a mission to travel the world in 30 days all on the gifts and good graces of kindred Twitter […]

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Weekend World Change

March 14, 2009 0 comments

I didn’t read Elie Wiesel’s Night in high school with everyone else. In fact, I just finished it the other night, shortly before Todd asked me what he should write about for this weekend’s Weekend World Change (though it’s kind of starting to be Every Third Weekend World Change, isn’t it?). Since Wiesel’s story was […]

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