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Statistics - find the browser stats you want to know

Browser News: Statistics - find the browser stats you want to know: "This page presents web browser statistics that may be of interest to website designers.

Caution: stats mislead. Caching distorts raw data; audiences vary for each site; methodologies vary for each survey; surveys miss or omit important details; surveys mis-identify browsers or other user agents; small sample sizes exaggerate fluctuations; and stats don’t count those who stay away because their browsers are not supported."

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ModalBox — An easy way to create popups and wizards

ModalBox — An easy way to create popups and wizards: "ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogs or even wizards (sequences of dialogs) without using conventional popups and page reloads. It's inspired by Mac OS X modal dialogs. "

Your own SMTP server

Your own SMTP server: "Take control of your outgoing mail by setting up your own SMTP server. The process is remarkably simple and will give you added privacy, speed and mail management tools."

Link Thumbnail

arc90 lab : tools : Link Thumbnail: "A picture's worth a thousand words, right? So spice up those plain old text links with Link Thumbnail, the second tool from the arc90 lab."

Intro To Search Engine Submission

Intro To Search Engine Submission: "How can I get my site listed with search engines? It sounds like a pretty simple question, but sadly, search engine submission can be a complicated subject."

How to Make Money From Your Website through Affiliate Programs (thesitewizard.com)

How to Make Money From Your Website through Affiliate Programs (thesitewizard.com): "Now that you've got a website, how do you make money from it? There are at least two ways in which sites can make money:
Advertising Revenue
Selling Goods and Services

I shall deal with the second case, 'Selling goods and services', in another article. In this article, I will address the issue of how your site can actually make money from advertising."

Technorati Tags: blogging, blogger, writing, writer, blogs, blog, block

25 Tips To Optimize Your Blog For Readers & Search Engines

25 Tips To Optimize Your Blog For Readers & Search Engines: "RSS Me!
Make sure you have RSS available. Many hosted blogging solutions don’t have RSS automatically available, so you will need to add it. And when you do add it, ensure you have those RSS links in an obvious spot. Don’t tuck them away at the very bottom of your index page after your most recent 20 entries, or hide them on a separate “About Us�? page. Place all those handy subscribe links in your sidebar, which is exactly where people will look for them. If you use Feedburner currently, have a look at their new MyBrand option which allows you to host your own feeds for a seamless user experience."

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Firefox - A blogger’s best friend

Firefox - A blogger’s best friend: "There are a lot of Add-Ons for Firefox, that will be a great support on your blogger’s journey. These are just my favorites."

10 tips to beat blogger’s block at LifeClever ;-) Tips for Design and Life

10 tips to beat blogger’s block at LifeClever ;-) Tips for Design and Life: "You’ve been there. You sit down, ready to write the next killer blog post, only to have your mind go totally blank. Then, your brain clutters up with fluffy thoughts of melted chocolate, lust-inducing iPhones, and unicorns. (Or is that just me?)

Even if you don’t blog, you know the agony and frustration of losing the words you want to write."

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Of Blogger Motivation

Of Blogger Motivation: "I have seen a number of blog posts discussing the different types of blogs. There are link blogs, information blogs, discussion blogs, and many, many more. However, I also run into countless statistics that explain how many blogs are abandoned after a few posts or a short time. This post is to explain why."

Technorati Sucks, but Friends Rule!

Technorati Sucks, but Friends Rule! � Legal Andrew : "Aside from initial setup, Technorati has other problems. For months now, Technorati has had problems with blogs being “flagged for review.” Just look at the threads in their support forums where blogs aren’t being updated properly."

Free Essential Tools for Blogger Blogs

Free Essential Tools for Blogger Blogs: "1. Feedburner - It generates an smart feed compatible with all feed readers for free like my feed. It allows you to put easy subscribe buttons for XML, Add to yahoo, Add to Newsgator, Add to MSN etc. Read about how their single feed policy can benefit you."

Technorati Tags: blogging, blogger, bloggers, writing, writer, writers, tools, essential,

Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace

Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace : "In sociology, Nalini Kotamraju has argued that constructing arguments around 'class' is extremely difficult in the United States. Terms like 'working class' and 'middle class' and 'upper class' get all muddled quickly. She argues that class divisions in the United States have more to do with lifestyle and social stratification than with income. In other words, all of my anti-capitalist college friends who work in cafes and read Engels are not working class just because they make $14K a year and have no benefits. Class divisions in the United States have more to do with social networks (the real ones, not FB/MS), social capital, cultural capital, and attitudes than income. Not surprisingly, other demographics typically discussed in class terms are also a part of this lifestyle division. Social networks are strongly connected to geography, race, and religion; these are also huge factors in lifestyle divisions and thus 'class.'"

Importance of a blogging strategy — Webmaster Dome v1.8

Importance of a blogging strategy — Webmaster Dome v1.8: "Generally, all of you might know that making a blog is just a 5 minute process. Especially with Blogger and all which doesnt need much difficult configuration. But, though making in a blog is 5 minute play, making it successful isnt that easy. Whatever purpose you have for your blog, it all depends on the deeply hidden Blog Strategy that you should be ready with. It is very vital in making your ideas effective. "

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Adding Adsense Ads to Your Blogs on WordPress | Adsense SEO

Adding Adsense Ads to Your Blogs on WordPress | Adsense SEO: "Adding Adsense Ads to Your WordPress Blogs

For a long time, AdSense from Google was one of the most popular methods of monetizing your blog. Thus, there are a lot of WordPress Plugins to help you add AdSense to your blog.

Adsense Deluxe WordPress Plugin place the above AdSense Deluxe screen to your Wordpress options panel. From there you can create multiple AdSense ad units and decide what parts of the site should have or not have ads, and what ad sizes to run. The Adsense Deluxe WordPress Plugin claims they go farther to help you customize your ad placement and improved performance."

Technorati Tags: blogging, traffic, promotion, promoting, blog, blogger, bloggers, increase, hit, hit-count,

Aboogy - Free bookmark manager

Aboogy - Free bookmark manager | Startpage for everyone: "Aboogy is a free bookmark manager and personal startpage.
Soon, those messy favorite links of yours could look
like on THIS DEMO"

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Blogging our way to Enlightenment?

Bits of News - Blogging our way to Enlightenment?: "Kant's view of enlightenment depends upon what he calls a distinction between public and private reasoning. The reasoning that someone uses for their own work say the reasoning of a priest as he attempts to preach to his congregation, or the reasoning of a physician practising on his patient, or even the reasoning of a lawyer in a courtroom can all be defined as private reasoning- their end is domestic- the security of life is ultimately what lies at the core of why that person is reasoning in that way. Without their stipends, the priest, lawyer or physician would be unable to eat- consequently their reasoning is private and domestic in its telos."

Technorati Tags: blogging, bloggers, blogged, writing, writer, writers, blogspot, typespace, wordpress, ping, pinging, pinger, tools, advice, tips

Blogspot is hurting America

Blogspot is hurting America | A Whole Lotta Nothing: "Blogspot is currently broken. While it always aimed to be the place to get a free weblog, it has been the subject of various exploits and gaming.

Case in point: yesterday I got a porn spam that slipped through since the from: line was set to my own email, and amid the garbage text was a URL on blogspot. This URL:
http://trampling-high-heels3169.blogspot.com/

If you go there and check it out, it pretty much as the exact same text as the spam, but the URL leads to the spammer's real target site."

Technorati Tags: blog, blogs, blogging, blogger, blogspot, wordpress, writing, writer, writers, blogged, google, ping, pinger, pinging, pings, technorati, blogpinging,

The Strange World of Blogspot Spam Blogs

The Republic of Geektronica � Blog Archive � The Strange World of Blogspot Spam Blogs: "I’ve been cruising the Blogspot world lately looking for cool stuff that the bigger geeklogs might have missed (and I found some cool knitting sites [1, 2] as a result last time I did this). What I’ve found, though, is that a large percentage (maybe up to a third) of all Blogspot blogs are spam-logs - sites created to increase the Google ranking of some other site (which is itself usually a Google-spamming site). The ultimate purpose of these spamlogs is usually to drive traffic to a commission-paying pharmacy, pr0n, or casino site."

Technorati Tags: blog, blogs, blogging, blogger, blogspot, wordpress, writing, writer, writers, blogged, google, ping, pinger, pinging, pings, technorati, blogpinging,

BlogSkins.com: Blog Templates

BlogSkins.com: Blog Templates - Home: "BlogSkins is a community of blog template designers, users, and friends. Whether you're looking for a fresh new design for your blog or wanting to share your hot designs with others, this is the place for you! A good place to start is with our top skins directory. Or, if you need more info, we have the place for you."

Technorati Tags: blog, blogs, blogging, blogger, blogspot, wordpress, writing, writer, writers, blogged, google, ping, pinger, pinging, pings, technorati, blogpinging,

Google launches public policy blog

ContraCostaTimes.com - Google launches public policy blog: " Google raised its profile as a political player Monday, launching a public policy blog (http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com) that tackles several controversial issues, features presidential candidates and seeks user input.

The blog features video of the recent appearances of John McCain and John Edwards at the Mountain View headquarters, the congressional testimony of YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley and Google's Laszlo Bock on immigration and an analysis of the role of online politics in the French presidential election."

Technorati Tags: blog, blogs, blogging, blogger, blogspot, wordpress, writing, writer, writers, blogged, google, ping, pinger, pinging, pings, technorati, blogpinging,

Blogger Templates (Classic) at Gecko & Fly, Money, Blogger Templates

Blogger Templates (Classic) at Gecko & Fly, Money, Blogger Templates: "The blogger templates are all open source, you are allowed to customized the template as you like and remove the credit to geckoandfly if you want to, and just in case you’re wondering why there is no result when you use the “Google Search This Blog” feature, the reason being is that Google Search Engine has yet to index your blog. "

Technorati Tags: blog, blogs, blogging, blogger, blogspot, wordpress, writing, writer, writers, blogged, google, ping, pinger, pinging, pings, technorati, blogpinging,

How to Backup a Blogger Blog

How to Backup a Blogger Blog: "If you have a blog hosted on Blog*Spot and you've upgraded to the new version, there's an easy way to backup your blog.

This page lists the latest N posts from the blog:
http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=N
Instead of N, type the number of posts. If your blog has less than 1000 posts, you can save this page:
http://blogname.blogspot.com/search?max-results=1000"

Technorati Tags: blog, blogs, blogging, blogger, blogspot, wordpress, writing, writer, writers, blogged, google, ping, pinger, pinging, pings, technorati, blogpinging,

Blogger Templates: 4.5 Million Blogspot Users are Lazy at Digital Inspiration Technology Guide

Blogger Templates: 4.5 Million Blogspot Users are Lazy at Digital Inspiration Technology Guide: "When you create a new blog on Blogger.com, Google provides a default blogspot template that has three links in the side bar - one link points to Google News while the other two links (Edit-Me) are just placeholders for the blogger to insert his own hyperlinks (see screenshot)

But bloggers are too busy creating content and don't bother changing these 'under construction' areas. There are 4.5 million pages hosted on blogspot.com that still have the Google News and Edit Me links [site:blogspot.com 'Google News' 'Edit-Me'"

Technorati Tags: blog, blogs, blogging, blogger, blogspot, wordpress, writing, writer, writers, blogged, google, ping, pinger, pinging, pings, technorati, blogpinging,

WriteToMyBlog - Free Web Word Processor for your Blog

WriteToMyBlog - Free Web Word Processor for your Blog: "WriteToMyBlog is a free web based word processor for your Blog. Create Post Entries for your Blog from right here, completely free, no membership required, can Post to multiple Blogs simultaneously, manage your Posts, works with all major Blog programs, and is easy-peasy! "

Technorati Tags: blog, blogs, blogging, blogger, blogspot, wordpress, writing, writer, writers, blogged, google, ping, pinger, pinging, pings, technorati, blogpinging,

LifeType | Open Source Blogging Platform

LifeType | Open Source Blogging Platform: "LifeType is an open-source blogging platform with support for multiple blogs and users in a single installation."

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QwikPing

Big in Japan: Providing Social Media Solutions � QwikPing: "QwikPing™ is an open source application written using Ruby on Rails. The idea behind the program is to allow bloggers with one or more blogs to easily ping multiple services with a notice that they have updated their site. Pinging can help interested readers find your ideas and as a result increase traffic to your blog."

Technorati Tags: blog, blogs, blogging, blogger, blogspot, wordpress, writing, writer, writers, blogged, google, ping, pinger, pinging, pings, technorati, blogpinging,

Blog-Blip

SubmitForm: "BlogBlip - One Click Blog Update Notifier"

Technorati Tags: blog, blogs, blogging, blogger, bloggers, writing, writer, writers, writing, blogspot, wordpress, ping, pinger, free, traffic,

Download Flock

Download Flock: "
Flock is an amazing web browser built on fast and secure Mozilla technologies. View and share photos with an innovative new photo bar in the browser. Subscribe to your favorite websites to get the freshest content automatically, in summaries that are easy to save and blog. Search more quickly, more effectively, and more richly with the innovative Flock Search Toolbar. Download the Flock beta and you'll be spreading the word that there's a new way to web."

Technorati Tags: blog, blogs, blogging, blogger, blogged, tool, tools, utilities,

Blogging Into The Mainstream - Forbes.com

Blogging Into The Mainstream - Forbes.com: "Remember when blogging was about opinionated, snarky outsiders shaking up the media and 'changing the paradigm' and so on?"

Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, links, bookmarking, social, blogger, bloggers

The Social Bookmarking Faceoff

The Social Bookmarking Faceoff: "The current social web era started with del.icio.us and the advent of social bookmarking. The simple concept of a tag has turned our interactions with the web upside down. The idea of being able to store your bookmarks online, share them with everyone and see what others have bookmarked - triggered the sequence of events that resulted in today's rich and social web ecosystem."

Rich and social my ass.

Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, links, bookmarking, social, blogger, bloggers

Fluidity - Social Search Tool

Fluidity - Social Search Tool

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Movable Type Releases New Blogging Functionalities at Enterprise 2.0 2007 (SocialComputingMagazine.com)

Movable Type Releases New Blogging Functionalities at Enterprise 2.0 2007 (SocialComputingMagazine.com): "The Enterprise and Community Solutions bring new capabilities to the Movable Type 4 platform that will enable businesses to build even more engaging social sites for communication and collaboration,' said Chris Alden, EVP and GM of the Professional division at Six Apart, this morning, as Six Apart announced new solutions enabling businesses to build powerful social media and blogging communities on top of Movable Type 4."

Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, links, bookmarking, social, blogger, bloggers

SiliconRepublic.com: IBM unveils business blogging software

SiliconRepublic.com: IBM unveils business blogging software : "Organisations will be able to combine all the elements of social networking sites like MySpace with traditional business software for the first time, claimed IBM as it launched its new software suite Lotus Connections.
Lotus Connections will allow employees to share resources and ideas through blogs, online communities, instant chat and shared bookmarks in a professional business environment."

Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, links, bookmarking, social, blogger, bloggers

NCAA blogging ban could turn into court case | www.tucsoncitizen.com �

Gimino: NCAA blogging ban could turn into court case | www.tucsoncitizen.com �: "The College World Series will be over by Monday, at the latest, but the enduring news occurred at a super regional in Louisville when the NCAA revoked a newspaper reporter's credential and booted him from the press box.
His high crime: Live blogging.
If the NCAA and the Louisville Courier-Journal want to fight and draw lines in the sand about intellectual property, broadcast rights and free speech, this will end up being a very interesting legal case. It could affect how and when and from whom you receive sports news."

Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, links, bookmarking, social, blogger, bloggers

Pageflakes - Get it Together

Pageflakes - Get it Together : "Personalize your homepage with your favorite news, weather, sports, entertainment, photos, videos, music, email...and much more, all in one place!"


Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, links, bookmarking, social, blogger, bloggers

Add to Any - Bookmarklet

Add to Any - Bookmarklet: "Use the Add to Any Bookmarklet to bookmark any page you're viewing in your online Bookmark Manager with a single click.

Simply drag the 'Add to Any' link below onto your browser's toolbar."

Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, links, bookmarking, social, blogger, bloggers

webpedia

webpedia: "webpedia

the best collection of links"

Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, links, bookmarking, social, blogger, bloggers

WordPress › Blog Tool and Weblog Platform

WordPress › Blog Tool and Weblog Platform: "WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time."

Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, tools, tool, utility, free, freeware, software, widget, widgets

Widgetbox › Directory of web widgets for WordPress, TypePad, MySpace and other blogs and web pages

Widgetbox › Directory of web widgets for WordPress, TypePad, MySpace and other blogs and web pages: "Widgetbox is a directory and syndication platform for web widgets for blogs and other web pages. Our widgets work with TypePad, WordPress, Blogger, MySpace as well as most other blogs, sidebars or websites. No plug-ins are needed, and they're free!"

Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, tools, tool, utility, free, freeware, software, widget, widgets

Snap Previews

Snap

I personally find them annoying, so I won't use them here, but a lot of bloggers seem to feel that this shit "enhances" their sites. Feel free to try it out.

Technorati Tags: blog, bloggers, enhancements, snap, previews

W. Bloggar

W. Bloggar is a freeware desktop blogging client that has been around for a while. You can publish, and supposedly, ping, without opening up your browser window. This makes everything quicker than going through the trouble of logging in to bloggar or Wordpress. If you publish a Blogger blog the installation/configuration is a little tricky since blogger started linking Blogs to Gmail accounts, the ways in which to do it are outlined here. It still doesn't format the post titles properly and it doesn't like there will be an update any time soon, so use at your own discretion if these things are important to you. It's still better than Qumana.

Technorati Tags: freeware, desktop, publisher, client, blog, blogging, blogger, new+blogger, installation, configuration

New Blogger Templates

Blogger Beta Templates

Free tempates for the new Blogger (some with 3 columns).

Technorati Tags: blogger, beta, new, templates, free, layout,

The Top 10 Blogging Mistakes I Made in My First Year - eMoms at Home - Blogging and Internet Marketing for Home Based Entrepreneurs

The Top 10 Blogging Mistakes I Made in My First Year - eMoms at Home - Blogging and Internet Marketing for Home Based Entrepreneurs: "2 - I stopped commenting on others’ sites

Though it’s time consuming, I found out the hard way that you can’t stop contributing to the conversation elsewhere. It’s part of the blogging game - and critical to your success to comment on others’ blogs.
3 - I stopped linking out thinking I was Steve Pavlina

I noticed how Steve Pavlina NEVER linked to anyone else’s blog. I figured I could get away with that too.

Boy, was I wrong.

Frankly, I don’t know why it works for him - but I also realized that even if I COULD get it to work on this blog, I didn’t want to. I enjoy passing around the link love - and I know you enjoy receiving it. ;)"

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Blog Beautification Tool

Want to beautify your blog, or maybe fuck it up some more? Well, have I got the tool for you! Check this out.

Technorati Tags: blog, beautify, writer, writing, writes, template, blogger, tools

Free Image Host

Free image or picture hosts abound,unless you want to host adult images, but what would we know about that, right? But what if you want to host videos? Yes, moving images have recently become a popular internet phenomenon and many people would like to see their images animated rather than static. Do you have any of these newfangled "moving pictures" on your computer? Well here is a website where you can host them for free!

Technorati Tags: adult, images, pictures, hosting, host, video, free

Technorati Tag Generator

Technorati tag generator
I can't say I get much traffic from Spam-norati, but I did in the old days, my hit-counter list was jam-packed with referrals from all kinds of technorati tags. I still try though, still keep beating my head against that traffic-whoring wall.

Technorati Tags: blog, traffic, technorati, tags, tag, generator

Color Scheme Tool

For those of you unable to leave well enough alone and to simply concentrate on putting out good content, here is a tool so that you can mess with your Blogger color scheme, Oh, wait, the new blogger already has such a tool. Ok. Maybe you want to mess with the colors on your Zach Braff fansite or something. Anyway, you have a link.
Technorati Tags: blog, template, tool, tools, color, scheme, colors, color-picker

Decent Hit-counter, Free

Here is a decent counter service to get stats from your blog in real time. It's nothing special, but not bad either. Real time web analytics and web counter By a continuous enhancement of its web stats and free
hit counter platform, ShinyStat has consolidated its worldwide success in Web Statistics and Web Analytics tools.

Technorati Tags: counter, stats, hit-count, hits, blog, promotion, traffic

Reddit VS Digg

Of course, you already know,but reddit is slightly less snarky than digg, so if that bothers you you might find this page useful along with membership. The buttons are cool and none of your little friends have them.

Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, promotion, reddit, digg

Using Facebook to promote your Blog

Not sure how much "virla power" facebook has, I myslef loathe the site,
which reeks of hip social-climbing, but if you are one of those
pretentious dumbasses with a profile there, feel free to following the
link below
http://making-money-blogging.com/blog/how-to-leverage-the-viral-power-of-facebook/

11 most popular feed readers

Another list of popular blog tools, you will be seeing a lot of those
here, book mark me if it's your link-whoring cup of tea.
http://www.webbusinessblog.com/11-most-popular-rss-feed-readers/