Latest for the ‘Lead Story’ Category

How to blog like Michael Phelps

By Koka Sexton • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story





Some would wonder what Michael Phelps has to do with blogging. I think there are many similarities and I’ll outline a few. As of the time this posts, Michael Phelps has grabbed 11 Gold Medals and is aiming for more to add around his neck. It would appear that Michael Phelps is unstoppable. The trick [...]



iPhone 2.0 - An upgrade for disaster

By Koka Sexton • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story





Today was supposed to be a wondrous day for Apple. The release of the new iPhone 3G and the much anticipated iPhone 2.0 software update. People waited in lines for the phone and I woke up first thing this morning to download the latest firmware update. Turns out Apple and I had another thing coming!

Some [...]



Much ado about nothing - Viral Marketing

By Koka Sexton • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Lead Story





20,000 visitors in a couple days can’t be wrong. My last post was titled Why geeks make better boyfriends. I was searching the interwebs for some information on a future post and came across an old post on the ‘best of Craigslist’ that laid out 15 reasons why Geeks make better boyfriends. Instead of just [...]



I’m having a baby

By Koka Sexton • May 17th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story





My wife came home with a present for me that contained a card and a book. Cute really. I think I read the card like three times before I understood what I was reading. It was like I suddenly had a reading comprehension level of a 4 year old. The only thing I could find [...]



Hello Viddler

By Koka Sexton • May 7th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story, Uncategorized





What is Viddler?
Viddler is a fresh, creative web application that lets you upload, enhance, and share digital video quickly and easily inside your web browser.

In other words Viddler is the hottest video sharing site online. A lot like YouTube but brings a social aspect to their site. After you post a video you can accept [...]



ProBlogger book - Hip or hype?

By Koka Sexton • Apr 19th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story





A couple weeks back I felt a disturbance in the force. Chris Garrett and ProBlogger announced that they have assembled a book together that has Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income. Sure that sounds great but is this really necessary? I am a bit split on my [...]



The Naked Vlog Campaign

By Koka Sexton • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story





I checked into YouTube for a quick distraction and maybe a laugh after getting home from work. I was surprised to see that one of the featured videos was a campaign for naked Vlogs.

Come on people. I’m sure this started out as an innocent attempt for some attention and it worked. The guy who started [...]



Everything you ever need to know about Twitter

By Koka Sexton • Mar 27th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story, social-media





I recently wrote about Twitter saying “Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service [SMS], instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific.” I thought I would put together a [...]



The StumbleUpon effect

By Koka Sexton • Mar 26th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story, social-media





Getting traffic to your website can be a daunting task. If you host your own website you have several methods of getting reader attention and converting them to followers. Bringing new visitors can almost become a full time job is you decide to do go that route. There are several bloggers that do just that [...]



New theme with Hulu integration

By Koka Sexton • Mar 24th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story





In my ever growing search for the perfect theme, I have changed to a magazine theme from Darren Hoyt called Mimbo. I was looking for something that gave my site a better look and feel and had looked at many magazine type themes. The primary difference of a magazine theme vs. a regular blog layout [...]