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Cube Candy, a celebrity and pop-culture blog, is often outspoken, sometimes rude and always willing to do just about anything one can get away for page views when attached to a major newspaper brand in a mid-sized market. When it started a few years back, I was one of three editors. For the past year and a half, with the help of a few link contributors and a proofreader, I have updated and maintained the blog five days a week pretty much by myself. NOTE: Cube has a personality of it’s own. It takes risks with editorial content as a pop-culture blog should. It has stepped over the line a few times, but never so far that it couldn’t easily step back in line.
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I should be a bit more proud of this than I am. I want to learn how to build a database from scratch. In the meantime, my company has an account with Caspio, and I created a local bands database with it a couple of years ago. I’ve tweaked it a million times since.
Guide to Musicians in Hampton Roads | Music and Nightlife | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
Created a featuring the photo above to go with a story on a New Yorker cartoonist living in the area. Thanks to global CSS styles and an automated tracking code, this simple little trick became a bit complicated. I positioned a div to cover the sidebar “grey area” properly and grabbed a flash widget after realizing that the javascript widget was compromised by automated tracking codes. Check out the poll and call out to the community:
New Yorker cartoonist finds inspiration in Va. Beach home | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
I post a music q&a with local bands every other week. Patty Jenkins interviews and gathers lot of the extras, such as the video featured in this q&a, I try to find new, unique yet simple to feature the band in a restricted Web layout. Many times the q&a falls into a regular routine, but sometimes - like with Virginia Beach-based band John Wayne’s Cage - I break out of the mold a little.
Blogging Basics for Writers
Starts this Saturday, Oct. 10. Seats still available.
How easy is it to blog? As easy as creating a blog and updating it on a regular basis. How easy is it to market your name, increase readership and maybe, just maybe, make money blogging? Well… that takes a little more time and effort. Whether you’re deciding what kind of blog to maintain (thematic or personal) or already have a blog that you would like
