Reading
- Your turn – if you have written or have read something that may interest readers here or come across a new site worth a look at let me know; by leaving a comment here or via my contact page. (The latter may be best if it is your own post so that others do not perceive it as being spammy) I will only publish comments that include links if the links are relevant and useful. (covering myself here in case I get spam!).
If you are a regular reader you will know I try to feature posts from some of the lesser known blogging blogs and those who write excellent posts about blogging but do not have that as their main topic.
You likely check out the more popular blogging blogs yourself but I do also include links to these if the content is of particular significance.
News
- I know a lot of my readers are mums so Moms Group Manual may be of interest. – this blog is a "Mom’s Guide to Connecting with Other Moms" both online and in person.
- Google is partnering with newspaper publishers to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online. Millions of pages of news articles will be digitized. These will be searchable by using Google News Archive or by using the timeline feature after searching Google News. This may come in very handy for research purposes for some bloggers. Read more on the Official Google Blog.
- Come On In The Web Is Fine has started a campaign to encourage sites not to play music on loading. I was recently asked by a client to add Christmas music to their site this year and I had to politely say "no way", that is not a good idea. I feel a post coming on about this topic so will say no more for now.
Blogging Tools
- 8 Google Reader Extensions for Firefox 3
Cyclo.psis a stock photo site search engine that "brings the results of the most popular stock sites to one location". Search once. See it all – no binocular vision on this site folks 
Joking, I think the name clever.
Social Networking
- Sweetcron- I am looking forward to get onboard with Sweetcron, a new lifestreaming application. Similar to Friendfeed in that it collects together your activities on sites such as Twitter, Stumbleupon, Digg. The difference is that you install and run Sweetcron from your own server and in a graphical format. A good example can be found on YongFong’s Sweecron site – not surprising as he is the application’s creator. Cha Cha France gives more details at Sweetcron | The Best Automated Lifestreaming & Blogging Software
- CMS Wire discusses whether Jaiku, which now allows its members unlimited invites, has missed the boat in Microblogging with Jaiku: Too Late to the Party? I must check Jaiku out again. If anyone wants an invite let me know, seems I can now invite anyone I like.
- Dwigger – threaded conversations and voting for Twitter. The idea sounds promising although the content does not show this as yet – No breaking news here. Top voted tweets today being largely about Talk Like a Pirate Day e.g." talk like a pirate day? shit, i forgot."
Blogger
- Antonio Lupetti from Woork has published some excellent tips for tweaking a blogspot template in 7 Tips to design professional blog layout using Blogger.
WordPress
- So you want to create WordPress themes huh? 16 beginner tutorials from wpdesigner – more advanced lessons to come.
- 68 Unique WordPress Themes from CSS Leak
- wordpress plugin : my profiles download page
- Smashing Magazine have written a great post for those interesting in doing some WordPress tweaking and coding, with links to articles and tutorials. WordPress Developer’s Toolbox I wish I had thought of that post!!
- Web Tools Collection takes a First Look At WordPress 2.7
- 2.7 brings the option of adding SSL security to protect your blog from hackers. To activate go to Edit Profile in the My Account menu of your dashboard and then to "Browser Connection". Choose “Always use HTTPS when visiting administration pages.”
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Just saw the link to CSSLeak.com and that is a great resource. They have a cool gallery of WP templates and there are a lot of valuable resources. Good read for any WordPress fan.
Thanks Rick, I just took a look at the site. I enjoy looking at any sort of web design showcase site and the WP resources will come in handy.
Thanks for the wordpress links…smashing magazine is a great site with bucket loads of resources.
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Yes it is a great site – they write articles that I either wish I had written or have written but only in rough draft form
Some pretty useful links here. Especially 68 WP themes. I am looking for new ones and some of those may suit me.
Hi Cathy – if you take a look at my diigo lists you can find three lists for themes – magazine type, free themes and specialist themes. I am adding to these bit by bit.
Great post & thanks for the link love!
Wow! What a great little collection of resources! Some of these I have read, but a few new gems in there, so thanks for putting this all together!
Thank you so much for the great post! also for the useful links.
This is an excellent list of great sites I had never heard of. Thank you!
i’m glad that there’s a bit of a pushback in relation to music playing on sites. whenever i come across one of these, my old computers gets all sluggish and uncooperative.
it’s a bit of a pain. so i usually don’t proceed to go through that site.
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I agree. Do you remember the days (mid-90s) when it was cool to have music play on a page? And back then, the music was often midi files. It’s interesting how times have changed. It makes you wonder how the web will be different 10 years from now.
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Those 68 unique wordpress themes look really good
thanks for sharing
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Thanks for the Google Reader extensions link! I’ve reverted back to Firefox from Chrome, so now I’m on the lookout again for great extension like this. Cool!
Same here. I tried Chrome and went back to FireFox. It seems like Chrome is still in the alpha stage. Google is on the right track, but Chrome isn’t close to where FireFox is today.
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Presenting these items as Blogosphere News sure does send out the message that there is demand for news that would only be desired by other writers of sites of this type. Individuals not present on the internet would not understand blog news, for the most part.
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Why you stop post so cool blogoshphere review? I’m looking forward to see new issues. Thanks by the way
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It was my first visit to your blog and I love this. I am subscribing to your comments right away. I am also planning to make a simmilar post on my blog and will leave a linkback to you. keep up the good work.
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Presenting these items as Blogosphere News sure does send out the message that there is demand for news that would only be desired by other writers of sites of this type. Individuals not present on the internet would not understand blog news, for the most part.
Wow, thanks a bunch for the info mate!
rick you are given really a worth site thank you for your support.
I want to make a blog with news copied frm other sites is it right?
@Creative Web Design, as long as you give credit to the original source, you should be fine. Some websites will tell you explicitly that no matter what you can’t take articles from them.
Till then,
Jena
Great word press themed manual so to speak!
This is really great information. Thanks so much for posting
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