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Blogging 101: Take a Tip from Newswriting with the Five W's
Who? When? Why? What? Where? How? If you don't answer those questions, why bother blogging at all?
The "Five W's" as they're often called (and one H) are drilled into every journalism student as crucial for news-writing. Who is involved? When did it happen? Where did it happen? How and why did it happen? And, for [...]
Posted in Blogging 101, Front Page, Journalism, Linux.com, Open Source, PR and marketing, Writing, openSUSE Also tagged blogging, pr, Social Media 1 Comment
Cheap tactics: Apple store down
My first skim of the morning tech news turned up a bunch of chatter about Apple's "store" being down. This happens a couple of times every year. Apple "takes the store down" and people start getting all excited that something new is on the way. It's hard to believe Apple doesn't get reamed for [...]
Beautiful projects deserve beautiful sites
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. The old cliche is true, and it applies to the Web sites of FLOSS projects as surely as it does a first date or a job interview. Unfortunately, all too many FLOSS Web sites make a very, very poor first impression. Not surprising, since [...]
Put some meat on it: Writing release announcements
I've been spending a fair amount of time away from the computer while on vacation, which has been nice, but I took some time yesterday to catch up on my RSS feeds. Even thought it's pretty quiet out there right now, I found several posts and announcements about beta releases, project releases, and so on.
Two [...]
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K Desktop Environment is Dead: Long Live KDE
Following in the footsteps of Kentucky Fried Chicken KFC, the KDE Project is rebranding and getting rid of the full name "K Desktop Environment." Unlike KFC, KDE won't be offering crispy chicken and stale biscuits. What KDE will be offering is "distinct brands for the software that was previously referred to generically as 'KDE'." Instead [...]
Posted in Articles, Linux, Open Source, PR and marketing, openSUSE Also tagged k desktop environment, kde 2 Comments
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Some interesting bits around the Web. Enjoy!
openSUSE Edu Li-f-e : creating open minds: "openSUSE Education community is proud to announce openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e: Linux for Education based on openSUSE 11.2 . Li-f-e flavor bundles the best of softwares openSUSE has to offer, such as most popular Desktop Environments, educational application, development suites, [...]
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