Daniel Watrous

Comments are a really great way to facilitate conversation on a blog. I actually love the comments I get on my sites, when they’re real. The problem is that sometimes it can be difficult to tell when something is worthwhile and when it’s not. The spammers are getting better at making you [...]

I’ve had a few clients ask me for a very simple tutorial about creating a new post in WordPress 2.9. After telling them to just head over to YouTube and follow the videos there, I finally went myself and looked for a few tutorials to send along as links.
I searched for “wordpress 2.9 video [...]

Some tools fall under the category of utility for me. By that I mean that they aren’t cool, they don’t provide anything novel and so long as they work reliably then I never really notice that they’re there or not. It’s sort of like electricity and natural gas. You don’t really think [...]

I’ve found myself growing weary of our benevolent big brother Google recently. Certainly one of the most compelling warnings that I remember recently came from Paul Meyers of TalkBiz fame. He effectively pointed out that Google’s mantra “do no evil” was wearing a bit thin when they decided to setup camp right on [...]

I’ve been following some of the self named Guru circle of internet marketers for a couple of years now and I can say that they have a lot figured out.  What genius and execution (more on that another day…).  One thing they seem to agree on are what they consider the leading e-mail providers.  What [...]

Screen capture video is a big thing these days, and it’s getting bigger.  There are a few reasons that creating screen capture videos is so popular.  Some that are interesting to me include:

Fast to produce and deploy
No cameras, lighting, extensive editing, color correction, etc.
For software/websites it’s the most effective way to illustrate a process
Easy to [...]

Back in January of 2002 I was pretty clear on what I wanted.  I had been working for about a year and a half at two different ad agencies in the Salt Lake City area in a technical capacity, but I didn’t have a college degree and I could see that sooner of later all [...]

The phone rang last night while I was putting my kids to bed and it was a friend of mine that I suggested do the thirty day challenge.  She had been doing her best to keep up with the challenge and follow the steps that Ed and his gang give.  After all, that’s what they [...]

Today I’ve heard a lot of folks sounding the battle cry long and loud today about Google’s announcement to enter the Operating System (OS) space.  Still there are others that are flat out ridiculing and twittermongering the idea of a Google OS.  What’s interesting to me is that there’s such a focus on this being [...]