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		<title>Comment on Wordpress SEO &#8211; Can it be improved? by Don</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2009/01/wordpress-seo-can-it-be-improved/comment-page-1/#comment-253</link>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m a little late to this party (followed a link from twitter), but I have found that a well coded layout with descriptive tags and permalinks works pretty well.  Sure, I use All in One SEO as well, but only for page keywords and consistent titles.

I do go through the logs and see what is being searched however and what posts come up.  When I find that, I do tend to go back and massage those a little more with the plugin and maybe add a wordpress tag or two.

Maybe I don&#039;t know enought about SEO, but WP + AI1SEO works pretty well for me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m a little late to this party (followed a link from twitter), but I have found that a well coded layout with descriptive tags and permalinks works pretty well.  Sure, I use All in One SEO as well, but only for page keywords and consistent titles.</p>
<p>I do go through the logs and see what is being searched however and what posts come up.  When I find that, I do tend to go back and massage those a little more with the plugin and maybe add a wordpress tag or two.</p>
<p>Maybe I don&#8217;t know enought about SEO, but WP + AI1SEO works pretty well for me.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Media outlets lagging in Mobile Web by Jimmy</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2009/01/media-outlets-lagging-in-mobile-web/comment-page-1/#comment-17</link>
		<dc:creator>Jimmy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes you&#039;re right.  Please send your comments to companies like WorldNow or FIM.  They&#039;re the ones that have prompted your complaints.  Us measly web producers have no control over these platforms.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes you&#8217;re right.  Please send your comments to companies like WorldNow or FIM.  They&#8217;re the ones that have prompted your complaints.  Us measly web producers have no control over these platforms.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Media outlets lagging in Mobile Web by Stacy Jones</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2009/01/media-outlets-lagging-in-mobile-web/comment-page-1/#comment-16</link>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Jones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hear that commentary quite frequently, that resources are not available to implement technologies, but let&#039;s be brutally honest with ourselves here. When all I have to do to get mobile support for MY website, is download a free plugin and install it on my blog, how many resources do you actually need? 

The problem is not that it cannot be done or that it is difficult. The problem is that resources (in this case, money) are being inappropriately allocated to other things. Most often in corporate environments, and I am given to understand that our local news media outlets are no exception, an exorbitant sum of money is spent on one piece of software that is advertised as your &quot;One stop solution to all of your internet ills&quot; and the fact ends up being that this advertising was smoke and mirrors. But the corporate dingle berries at the top simply cannot abide the idea that they might have made the wrong choice and don&#039;t know as much about technology as the people they pay to implement it. The IT staff is often left trying to make this &quot;enterprise solution&quot; do things that it was never designed to do in the first place and are not paid enough to fix everything that is wrong with these package deals. 

I am positive that that&#039;s what has happened here, and if the community doesn&#039;t speak out, how will we ever change it?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hear that commentary quite frequently, that resources are not available to implement technologies, but let&#8217;s be brutally honest with ourselves here. When all I have to do to get mobile support for MY website, is download a free plugin and install it on my blog, how many resources do you actually need? </p>
<p>The problem is not that it cannot be done or that it is difficult. The problem is that resources (in this case, money) are being inappropriately allocated to other things. Most often in corporate environments, and I am given to understand that our local news media outlets are no exception, an exorbitant sum of money is spent on one piece of software that is advertised as your &#8220;One stop solution to all of your internet ills&#8221; and the fact ends up being that this advertising was smoke and mirrors. But the corporate dingle berries at the top simply cannot abide the idea that they might have made the wrong choice and don&#8217;t know as much about technology as the people they pay to implement it. The IT staff is often left trying to make this &#8220;enterprise solution&#8221; do things that it was never designed to do in the first place and are not paid enough to fix everything that is wrong with these package deals. </p>
<p>I am positive that that&#8217;s what has happened here, and if the community doesn&#8217;t speak out, how will we ever change it?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Media outlets lagging in Mobile Web by Jimmy</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2009/01/media-outlets-lagging-in-mobile-web/comment-page-1/#comment-15</link>
		<dc:creator>Jimmy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Small markets don&#039;t have the human (and more often than not, the technical) resources to do this kind of thing, and therefore will always lag behind larger markets like LA/NY with leading edge technology.

Another discouraging factor for me anyway (since I work in web media), is the lack of firm standards and diverse platforms that the mobile has.

Plus, it&#039;s hard to sell... and when it comes down to it, it&#039;s all about the money.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Small markets don&#8217;t have the human (and more often than not, the technical) resources to do this kind of thing, and therefore will always lag behind larger markets like LA/NY with leading edge technology.</p>
<p>Another discouraging factor for me anyway (since I work in web media), is the lack of firm standards and diverse platforms that the mobile has.</p>
<p>Plus, it&#8217;s hard to sell&#8230; and when it comes down to it, it&#8217;s all about the money.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Twitter Updater 3.0! by Thoughts and Tech &#187; Twitter Updater 3.01</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2008/11/twitter-updater-30/comment-page-1/#comment-13</link>
		<dc:creator>Thoughts and Tech &#187; Twitter Updater 3.01</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Updater 3, previously announced here, has now been updated to version 3.01. This is only a minor cosmetic fix to integrate it properly [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Updater 3, previously announced here, has now been updated to version 3.01. This is only a minor cosmetic fix to integrate it properly [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Twitter Updater by Thoughts and Tech &#187; Twitter Updater 3.02</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/projects/twitter-updater/comment-page-1/#comment-11</link>
		<dc:creator>Thoughts and Tech &#187; Twitter Updater 3.02</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Some more minor tweaks to Twitter Updater to make it work better with WordPress 2.7. Some major things have changed in the post screen! Twitter Updater 3.02 [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Some more minor tweaks to Twitter Updater to make it work better with WordPress 2.7. Some major things have changed in the post screen! Twitter Updater 3.02 [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Twitter Updater by Thoughts and Tech &#187; Twitter Updater 3.01</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/projects/twitter-updater/comment-page-1/#comment-10</link>
		<dc:creator>Thoughts and Tech &#187; Twitter Updater 3.01</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Twitter Updater [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on IPhone developer goes for the &#8220;ringtones&#8221; by Bill</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2008/12/iphone-developer-goes-for-the-ringtones/comment-page-1/#comment-4</link>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you for the correction.  I actually have purchased Twittelator Pro and think it was very much worth the premium over the free version.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for the correction.  I actually have purchased Twittelator Pro and think it was very much worth the premium over the free version.</p>
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		<title>Comment on IPhone developer goes for the &#8220;ringtones&#8221; by Jeff</title>
		<link>http://polestar.org/blog/2008/12/iphone-developer-goes-for-the-ringtones/comment-page-1/#comment-3</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just a clarification, I believe Hockenberry wrote Twitterific, not Twittelator, which is made by Big Stone Phone. Twittelator is only $5 and is very feature-rich.

Also, another clarification: Trial versions are not available for anyone. Only Apple can change this. One attempt to get around this has been to make two versions, one free and one that you pay for, as both Twitterific and Twittelator do. Currently no one can make trial versions happen on their own.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just a clarification, I believe Hockenberry wrote Twitterific, not Twittelator, which is made by Big Stone Phone. Twittelator is only $5 and is very feature-rich.</p>
<p>Also, another clarification: Trial versions are not available for anyone. Only Apple can change this. One attempt to get around this has been to make two versions, one free and one that you pay for, as both Twitterific and Twittelator do. Currently no one can make trial versions happen on their own.</p>
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