Brad Rourke

Category: blogs

  • How To Move Your WordPress Blog To A New Webhost

    After many months of poor service, frequent timeouts, and half-loaded pages, I moved the local blog I founded, Rockville Central, to a new host. I guess my first clue that I would really need to do something about this mess happened in a new client interview, when I was touting the site. My prospect pulled…

  • The Ethics Of Coming Clean

    Visiting from Gawker’s Valleywag? Welcome! Please consider signing up for my occasional (free) email. If you’re not in the tech world, you probably have never heard of the Silicon Valley blog called TechCrunch. This is a widely-read and frequently-updated blog on happenings throughout the tech world. It is among the handful of top news sources…

  • Navigating The New Push-Pull World

    This morning, as I went outside to pick up the many newspapers to which I subscribe to home delivery (I’m old school that way), I saw an extra bundle in the middle of the driveway. It was a free print version of a new online newspaper, being helpfully delivered to my doorstep. My immediate thoughts…

  • Announcing Washington Times Communities

    I am proud to announce the launch of a major new initiative that I have been working on with a few partners. The formal announcement will come later this week, but I wanted to give a preview to my readers because I am so excited about it. Today, we are soft-launching the new Washington Times…

  • How To Think About Your Blog Like A TV Programmer

    The great promise of the Web, which was finally fulfilled by the pervasive existence of blogs, was that everyone would be a publisher. With cheap, easy tools, anyone can publish work that is immediately accessible across the globe.There is literally no fundamental barrier to the creation and distribution of your work. There is a new…

  • Four Tips For New Bloggers: Feed The Beast

    I’ve been blogging since before we had the word “blog” — with varying degrees of success. By “success” I don’t mean number of readers. I mean success in actually getting my blog posts completed and posted. There have been long dry stretches, where I could barely get anything written. I didn’t know what to write,…

  • Are They Joking? Does It Matter?

    I can’t tell if they are mocking me, poking good-natured fun, or are serious. Back in April, I recorded a video that outlined my note-taking strategy. Over the years, lots of people have commented on it in meetings and have been curious about how it works. I’ve got the video embedded down at the end…

  • Whelan Apologizes For Publicizing Anonymous Blogger's Identity

    I don’t ordinarily run “updates” to earlier stories, but this news shifted on of the the points made in  Monday’s posting about the controversy between Ed Whelan and a pseudonymous blogger named “publius.” Whelan had discovered publius’ identity and revealed it. I used the occasion to make a broader point about being anonymous (which I…