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If you have problems finding extra content to fill your posts – especially pictures – then you might want to try Zemanta. No, it’s not a medication to treat any cholesterol or depression. Well, you might be less depressed if you use Zemanta, though.

Zemanta will take your post and add more content. Whether it’s a related link or a picture that is out on the internet. Zemanta plugin for Wordpress, Movable Type, Joomla and Drupal, will give you options for the keywords you post.

In this video I talk to Tilly from Zemanta about the great little plugin. She talks about price points (FREE), how the program works and how you could get more traffic.

Dorkazine is running Zemanta right now.

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We all are looking for ways to put more meat into our posts, while helping with SEO. Search Engine rules state that within that algorithm, the more links we have, the better. Therefore, linking to related information – especially from within your own site – is a key to ranking better.

Outbrain is a program that lets you do just that: link to information that relates to the article at hand. It takes your keywords and puts related links on the bottom of the post. It can be internal or external links, completely controlled by you.

We talk with Kate from Outbrain about how this system works and any other particulars involved.

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All come everybody.  My name is Jeffrey hours.  I am doing well.  How are you doing?

Guess what?  I am using the speech recognition in windows seven to make this article.  I do not have to type, or even get out of bed.  All I need is a good microphone, and a lot of patients.
It is not 100%, but so far, it has done OK.  There are some things that I’ve actually had to redo, but most of the time it’s my impatience that causes errors.  The best part is all I have to say is the word UNDO, and it will all be undone.

I suppose one problem with doing speech recognition is that you don’t learn the mistakes of spelling.  Even while typing in something; whether it be a article, a BLOG, or anything of the sort, I would notice when I make spelling mistakes and quickly correct them, while trying to remember what the mistake was.  Hence, I do not get the opportunity to correct my mistakes (width of the exception of the word UNDO).

One thing I notice in using speech recognition, is that I have to take my time.  I will enunciate part of the sentence, wait for response, then continue – or make corrections.  Some corrections are just overlook for now, as I will get back to them later.

I have dealt with speech recognition for a few we years now.  I understand its advantages and disadvantages.  There were a couple times I had to support people with mobile disabilities who need to use the software on a regular basis.  Otherwise, they would not be able to use the computer.

If you think that you can use the software without training it, then you are grossly mistaken.  Training the computer to your voice is a key element to making the software work.  By training the computer, less mistakes will be made.  For example, one person can say ” the” with a silent ” E”.  The next person might not.  Training will tell the computer that you pronounce the word in the with a silent E.

One thing to remember is to not get frustrated over the speech recognition.  Take your time, watch what you say, and make corrections accordingly.  Sometimes, you might just have to go back and manually correct.

I have left the mistakes in this article to prove a point.  There have been a couple lines I have redone simply because of the fact that it wouldn’t get my point across.  But in general, there has not been any altering to this message.

Now all in hopes to show you something, I will read at normal speed and we’ll see how correct the computer will be.  I will continue on with punctuation.  It goes like this:

Well, a Federal judge ruled and Psystar lost the case.  Apple is definitely showed the hand of god here.  But the real question is: will it be the end of that?  Hopefully not.
On Friday, Judge William Alsop sided with apple that Psystar had in the dot violated the end user license agreement.  He ruled that the installation of the Mac OS on non Apple’s hardware is not allowable.  Therefore, Psystar must discontinue their line of Mac clones.  Finally, he will rule that Psystar as counter claims are not arguable since Psystar altered to the Mac Software to run on other machines.

This was an article I wrote last week.

If you decide to start using speech recognition, you will need a couple things.  The first is patients; it’s not going to be 100% correct.  Secondly, you will need a good microphone.  Right now I am talking through my professional rig.  If you get a USB mike, make sure it has NOISE cutting capability, so if the dog barks in the background, it doesn’t affect your session too much.  Finally, make sure your computer’s sound card can handle the situation.  If your sound card produces a lot of what is called ” white noise”, then you might be stopping and correcting yourself a lot.
I hope that this is help you in determining whether you want to use the speech recognition or not.  When properly trained, this could actually be a very valuable tool to you.  And the best part is its only gonna get better in the future.

But you should really learn how to spell…

**To start using the Speech recognition, simply go to start, then type in “Speech Recognition” in the search area**

The day after Blogworld, I got a great opportunity to play for the Grand Opening of the Full Compass campus. Full Compass is a full sound and light company for live and recording producers. Their online service sells millions of dollars in equipment a year.

My Band – Trailer Kings – got to enter their studio to record tracks for the live event that happened on Oct 23 – 24th. During this time, I took some video of the studio, and pictures of the tour. The following is a video blog about the visit.

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This week I take my Podcast talents over to the TPN Weekly Podcast for episode 14. I take the Podcast in a slightly different direction, as I talk a little bit about me and growing up in technology. I throw out some of the computers I used to work with, like the Commodore Vic20, Atari and Apple Macintosh, then my rise into an IT role.

I also talk a bit about the future of technology and where we are going as New Media Specialists. It was a fun show to do simply because I went off the cuff and didn’t talk about present tech news. If anything, it was more of an audio blog.

I also put some Podcast-safe background music into it. It was provided by Kalliopi, and can be found at Ariel Publicity.net.

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Bill and Jon talk about the Blogger area

We stopped at the NBC Universal Bloggers area and Andy McCaskey talked with Jon and Bill about the Sharp Blogger area. Jon talks about the design of the booth and Bill talks about how NBC Universal has been detrimental to CES.

Blogging at NBC Universal

Best part is that I got to sit down and catch up on my blogs. The connection was fantastic!! We had the Backchannel of the interview up in a matter of minutes.

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Geekazine is looking to expand the Geekazine Quickcast – a Podcast produced multiple times a week including ‘The Week in Tech History’, ‘Get Certified’ and ‘1 Topic’. Each show is listened to by many every week.

I am looking for individuals that Blog on technology and want to give their Blogs a new medium. By being part of the Geekazine Podcast, you will also introduce the Geekazine audience onto your site.

Simply contact Geekazine of which Blog you would like to turn into an audio version and I will do the rest. I will review the blog and see if it will fit with the Quickcast.

If you are interested, please drop a line.

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Well I didn’t expect this to happen, but when we got to CES today, our first order of business was to interview Jon Accarrino with NBCUniversal. What turned out was not only the interview with Jon, but also Bill Hartnett. We talked about their little Blogger lounge and how NBC has contributed to this new media. Andy interviewed the event on the Primary channel, and I took Backchannel video coverage.

The best part is the fact that Jon set me up with a station where I could not only upload the Video in High Speed, but also put up this Blog. Therefore, I am sitting in this comfortable chair connected to a real high speed pipe (300 MB Video was posted in no time flat). Sure beats the 170 minute upload at the Hotel.

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It’s been a year and a few months since the first iPhone was sold. Since the release of the 3G model, I’ve been seeing people with iPhones I would have never expected have one. The iPhone has brought up a new way to use the internet, the phone and a computer.

Apple is under a lot of scrutiny: AT&T being the sole carrier, the Apps store program take downs and the 3G services being poor. Yet the iPhone still is the 2nd best selling phone behind the Motorola RAZR. Apple itself is set to continue through these tough times.

There has been a lot of good and bad said about the iPhone. I have seen a lot of Forum posts, even more twitters and more. I decided to go ahead and ask a small group of people over at Help A Reporter what their thoughts were. I asked to send me 1-2 paragraphs as to why you like, don’t like or are neutral about the iPhone. Here are the responses:

Today is the Roundtable, I will be presenting WordPress 2.7, the newest version of the Blog CMS that is in Beta at this point. We are also talking with Mobicip on Child Protection and TechForward on the CompUSA and Tiger Direct Buyback program.

We had another steller week. It all started on Monday with the LIVE Show, Jerri Ellsworth Showed up and talked about her game room. It was a great show and very unexpected.

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