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Can You Delete a Google Review? Here’s What You Can Do Instead

Negative Google reviews can be stressful, especially when they’re fake, unfair, or harming your business’s reputation.  These reviews don’t just influence customer trust. They can also impact where your business appears in the Google search results. The truth is that…

Matt: Happy Birthday Kinsey

Yesterday I had the great honor and privilege of attending a colleague’s 70th birthday party. You may not have heard his name before, but Kinsey Wilson has been at the center of shaping journalism with a movie-worthy career that started…

Designer Diary: One-Hit Heroes

by AC Atienza Part 1: How Hard Can It Be to Design 1-HP Heroes? One-Hit Heroes ended up with an ambitious design vision, but it didn’t start that way. My coworker Connor Reid just thought the name “One-Hit Heroes” sounded…

Matt: Self-driving

There has been some lovely writing about self-driving this week, first in the New York Times where Jonathan Slotkin makes the medical case for autonomous vehicles. But I was really taken by The Economist’s look at how self-driving cars will…

Become the Queen of Spies, Return to Sherwood Forest, and Talk Smack about Old Movies

by W. Eric Martin Let’s peek at a handful of titles looking for crowds to fund them in what is historically the slowest crowdfunding time of the year: ▪️ Queen of Spies is one of two titles coming from Liz…

Matt: AI Native

James LePage has a great write-up, SOTW 2025:The Year WordPress Became AI-Native. Sorry, You're not allowed to submit vote ! Total 0 Votes 0 0 Tell us how can we improve this post? Captcha: + = Verify Human or Spambot…

Gutenberg Times: State of the Word, WordPress 6.9 “Gene”, Playground Year-Review — Weekend Edition #352

Hi there, How did the upgrade to WordPress 6.9 go for you and those around you? Did anything break? Or are you waiting for 6.9.1 to come out? Once in a while I get a question on how I keep…

Flatout Lures Gamers with Honeypot, and Phil Walker-Harding Sells Wombat Poo

by W. Eric Martin ▪️ While wrapping up a crowdfunding campaign for Cascadia: Alpine Lakes, publisher Flatout Games has already announced its next two releases for 2026, with Forage feeling very on-brand thanks to company owners Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin,…

I added WhatsApp chat to WordPress and engagement instantly went up

Most of your visitors already use WhatsApp every day to talk with friends and family. So giving them that same simple way to reach your business just makes sense. When contacting you feels as easy as sending a quick message,…

Designer Diary: Squirrel Away

by Clarence Simpson The beginning of Squirrel Away was magic. No…I mean, like, David Copperfield magic. A Seed of an Idea As a teenager, I went through a phase in which I was fascinated with illusions and magic tricks. I…