About tomaltman.com

Welcome to my blog where I write about the things I like…that includes all number of things.

Featured Posts:

When is Free – FREE?

The team over at Read-Write-Web posted an article called “The Danger of Free” Everyone loves to get stuff for free. We line up to get a free drink, we sign up for free checking accounts, and we’re happy to get a free gift with the purchase of our next car. We love free stuff, even … Read more

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DIY Local Search Engine

A received a forward from our Online group late last week (thank you Mary W and Sarah F) which was from a post on the Natural Search Blog talking about rolling your own local search engine. …how using Eurekster’s Swickis on their blogs can be a cool feature enhancement, providing custom thematic search engines for … Read more

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Can you say IPTV?

IPTV (Internet Protocol TeleVision) is starting to creep its way on the web. We’re starting to see more and more TV shows pop-up as their own little mini-stations – plus the whole miro and joost thing. TV Shows via the Internet I was looking at Mashable this morning and saw a banner ad for The … Read more

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Thank you for innovative thinking

What do you do when too many students are USING Wikipedia to write their term papers – throw out the term paper and make them write Wikipedia articles! Freaking brilliant. This is exactly the type of thinking we have to promote! If people are cheating on their term papers – take the resource out of … Read more

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2008 – The Year of the Web Election?

I’m not sure how much of the jockeying you’ve been following – but there has been an interesting topic I have been following with Republican candidate Ron Paul. If you look at Paul’s number back in July from a USA Today/Gallup poll: Neither former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore nor Rep. Ron Paul registered any support. … Read more

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You’ll find articles about:

  • technology
    • how it affects the things we do
    • laptop computers, desktop computers, chromebooks – review and information
    • GPS, software – and other cool gadgets
  • WordPress – I love this platform, it was a revolution when I first found it and still think its a huge player in why the web and blogs are where they are today
    • plugins, themes, tips and tricks
    • wordpress development
  • programming
    • hacks, errors, issues, fixes and some SEO for good measure
  • futuristic, innovative and interesting ideas
  • nonsense that cannot be classified anything but geeky
  • motorcycles and vw’s if I get bored with any of the above

When I started this blog – it was on an intranet at my IT job at The Gazette. It was focused on issues pertinent to the things going on in a newspaper IT department.  Soon, I wanted to go bigger and make it live on tomaltman.com.  I bought the domain in 2004 – but it was not until November of 2007 that it was used for this site and I started to blog more regularly.

Since then – I have worked at many different companies and seen a lot of different things. But those stories are all weaved into the content here. I hope you enjoy it – if you have questions, please use the contact form. Enjoy.