Blogging Sueblimely

News

• Ad Lib Group Writing Project on Essential Strokes
• wowOwow (The Women of The Web) site is launching today 8th March - no idea what it is about but the current front page intrigued me - “If you could choose any women in the world, living or dead, which four faces would you put on Mount Rushmore?”
• UN Data gives free online access to the United Nations Data Access System database; an integrated information resource with current, relevant and reliable statistics. If you are interested in stats - there are currently 55 million records to search.
• Andy Beard Exclusive: Activity SocialStream Goes Portable With Blogcatalog. Andy describes the BlogCatalog’s new social network widget and feeds.

Reading

• Bending the Web: Become Popular in 2 Monthsfrom Super Blogging Tips
• Top 10 Worst Capthas by John Willis
• How can you tell if a site is a link farm?from about.com
• How to Easily Boost Your Technorati Rankby Chris Garrett
• GreenDev: 50 Environmentally Friendly Apps, Hosts and Resourcesby Virtual Hosting.
• Procrastination: Procrastination Killers Part 4 of a series by Gaetano Caruanaon Liz Strauss’ Successful Blogger. Gaetano also has a free book Stop Procrastination Now available at Fruitful Blogger. I downloaded this but will read it tomorrow.
• Vincent the Wright Hand Blogger gives6,500 Reasons Why You Should Join My Wright Hand Power Forum on Linkedin Groups

Blogging Tools

• Use Snipping Tool to capture screen shots with Windows Vista - Create an image of a rectangular area, an irregular shaped area, a whole window or whole screen with this tool that is built into Vista. Thanks to Michael, who visited me via Entrecard,for this information.
• To easily see which sites are linking to you add the code given to you on the Who links to mesite.
• PicMarkr lets you to add custom watermark (image or text) to your images online and free.It is useful when you need to protect your copyrights or if you want to add comments to your photos.
• Aviary is a suite of web-based applications (RIAs) for ” people who create” - includes image editing, typography, music, 3D and video tools. Currently in beta for trialing.
• MyLiveSignature.com Online tool to create a personalized signature image. Choose from 120 fonts and a selection of colors, sizes, and degrees of slant.
• 100+ Resources for Web Developers by Blog Well
• Blog Headers For Free Download on Smashing Magazine.

Social Networking

• Reddit - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About It Not an applications I have used much although I have read reports on its usefulness.
• BricaBox some social networking tools into the personalized homepage niche. We’ve taken the best of blogs and social networks, added some amazing new tools and features, and created a platform for you to create your own version of your favorite social content website. Choose from our one–click selection of BricaBoxes below to get started.
• Blogged.com is a new interactive blog directory launched this week. One interesting difference between this and other directories such as BlogCatalog is that most of the blogs have been reviewed and rated by professional editors hopefully filtering out spam blogs and keeping quality high. You can read a review at Will Blogged be More Than a Typical Blog Directory?
• 30,000 weblogs. One Day. One Voice Have you ever wanted to shout to the world? Here’s your chance.
• Jaanix is a new social news website - submit stories or click, rate, tag, comment or save posts submitted by others. Find stories of interest using a slider system which weights the topics you wish to search for or just view recent or popular posts. Over time Jannix learns your preferences, feeding you stories accordingly. Your saved posts can be exported to del.icio.us and Twitter. More information and reviews can be seen on my own Jaanix page

Wordpress

• 48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress
• Project Files - Is That Really WordPress?
• BuddyPress will “transform a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform” - More info at from the Download Squad at Automattic acquires BuddyPress social networking plugins (MU=Multiuser)

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