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Searching for an easy to use, flexible blogging and Content Management System (CMS) for a new site I am creating for a client, I came across Majestic, created by web development company Injader.

I need to create a site which will allow multiple users to easily add news and additional pages, upload photos to a gallery. I have created a number of sites using the Joomla CMS system so that their users could update the sites themselves once I had set them up. Each time the sites have either remained unchanged or I have had to to the updates myself ; the admin interface was too hard for them to learn.

This time, Wordpress was my main preference; with plugins and tweaks I could get it to do what was needed. It was not ideal but it was the best option that I was aware of - until I found Majestic. Majestic’s inbuilt features immediately attracted me, providing all the functionality I needed, and a simple admin interface means my clients will be able to start blogging without a steep learning curve. I was sueblimely happy with my discovery Not only does Majestic provide a simple blogging solution but has extras that even Wordpress cannot provide, such as more flexible user permissions. Plugins being developed by Injader will also provide more advanced uses if you need them. Apologies if this sounds like an advertisement, I do tend to be enthusiastic about such finds.

Another discovery I made was that Majestic has been developed by Ben Barden, whose blog I have been reading for quite some time and who I know from the Aussie Blogger’s Forums as a knowledgeable and helpful contributor. I have asked Ben to write a guest post to give you more info on Majestic and an opportunity for you to have your questions answered - so if there is any more you would like to know about Majestic please ask in the comments here.

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As I have had to reinstall my Firefox profiles I took the opportunity to tidy things up a bit and install updated extensions, it is a good opportunity for me to share with you what I find useful for browsing, blogging research and organization.

Unless listed as otherwise all of the following are Firefox extensions. For most of the list below I could only point you to the current extension version downloads. This of course may change in the future - so if the extension is out of date for your version of Firefox or no longer exists then do a search from the main Firefox Add-ons window.

Addins marked with * are those I have not tried myself because I do not want to add any more unless I think they are absolutely necessary.

Blogging and Feed Reading

• Text Formatting Toolbar * - allows easy formatting of posts on forums, blog comments and wikis. It supports three formats: BBcode (bulletin board) like used on most forums, HTML, and the format used by Wikipedia.
• ScribeFire blog editor
• Web Mail Notifier *- handy to get immediate notification of blog comments etc..
• BlogRovr - RovR fetches posts from your favorite blogs about anything you’re browsing, and shows you summaries you can open read posts without leaving the web page you were on. Twitter about the pages you’re on from the toolbar, with the link added automatically.
• Google Reader Watcher *- checks your Google Feedreader for unread news.
• Sage Feedreader - I used to use this all the time until I began collecting (I get very behind in reading) copious amounts of feeds and started using Feed Demon instead. There are a few other feedreader addins for Firefox - if you prefer one of these over Sage I would be interested in hearing about it.
• Wizz RSS Newsreader- I have read good review for this one.
• Feed Sidebar - show your Firefox Live Bookmarks in the sidebar.
• Yoolicit Toolbar - pinpoints and takes you to sites that are specifically relevant to those you’ve bookmarked - a bit like the Stumble feature of Stumbleupon. Youlicit site to create your account
• To Read Later
  - bookmark webpages you want to read later by simply clicking on this toolbar button .
• Firefox Universal Uploader *- upload/download to and from Flickr, Picasa, Youtube, Box.net(1GB of free space), Facebook, Webshots and OmniDrive

Designing

When designing or altering design elements in your blog it is very useful to have ways of viewing or editing the CSS and html code before you commit to saving it to your theme. If you are a beginner, being able to view how your own blog or other websites are made up is a good learning strategy. Even for the more experienced it handy to be able to view bits of code on other sites or to edit your own.

• Scrapbook - excellent for quickly downloading your theme/template.The saved page is converted to html it is very handy for styling your page or extras you add. - I am intending to write a tutorial on this as I find Scrapbook invaluable and use it a lot.
• Web Developer Toolbar - Lets you interact with your page code and styling in multiple ways. I wrote a post about this last year - Blog Toolbox 2 - Web Developer Toolbar
• View Source Chart - a nifty little tool which I used a great deal when learning html and CSS. This extension allows you to view a color coded chart of a webpage showing how the different elements relate to each other: I have created a source chart page showing the source code for one of my post pages:
• Firebug - view and edit a page’s CSS, HTML, JavaScript and Ajax. A great extension although I find everything I need and more in the Web Developer Toolbar.
• MeasureIt
  - a ruler to measure elements of a webpage.

SEO

• Sparky - Alexa Toolbar
• iWebTool Toolbar - 30 Webmaster Tools including Backlink Checker, Google Pagerank Checker. Alexa Traffic Rank, Reciprocal Link Checker

Social Networking

• Facebook - search, get Notified, connect with friends, share content Facebook Toolbar, Facebar and Facebook ShareThis
• StumbleUpon Toolbar
• Digg Toolbar
• Digg Sidebar- shows you the Digg stories in real time in the Firefox sidebar.
• Jaikungfu *- enhancements for Jaiku users
• LinkedIn Companion for Firefox
• Orkut Helper * various features for keeping up with Orkut.
• minggl - interact with multiple Social Networking Sites
• Operator toolbar - interact with semantic data on websites - hcard, vcard, microformats. Handy for using the new hcard/vcard feature in MyBlogLog - I am in the midst of writing a post on this subject.
• Twitter Fox - notifies you of your friends’ statuses of Twitter.
• Shareaholic - share, bookmark and e-mail web pages.
  Supported services: bzzster!, digg, del.icio.us, facebook, friendfeed, google bookmarks, healthranker, magnolia, mixx, reddit, simpy, stumbleupon, streakr, truemors, tumblr, twitter…
• Share this - send messages to FaceBook, AIM and regular email simultaneously and without signing in to any other account and post directly to Facebook Homepage
• SiteSays - allows you to post and view comments about sites as you surf in a small window in the corner of your browser. It is a novel way to collaborate and interact…
• gTalk Sidebar * - installs gTalk to your firefox sidebar
• Chat applications - Gabbly Chat and Yaplet Sidebar
• Me.dium - but not your average extension. Chat with friends who are visiting the same webpage.

Social Bookmarking

• diigo Toolbar - interact with your diigo account. diigo allows for automatic bookmarking to other bookmarking sites too.
• GBookmarks via Right Click
• Delicious Delicious bookmarks sidebar - I found this slowed my browsing down so try not to use too many other addins if you really want to use this one.
• SimpleDelicious - another method of working with Delicious bookmarks.
• Onlywire Bookmark a page to various social bookmarking sites at once
• GBookmarks via Right Click *
• Smarky *- manage Simpy bookmarks
• Faves *- for your Faves (formerly Blue Dot) bookmarks
• Furl Interact with the Furl bookmarking application
• Blogmarks toolbar buttons
• magnolia bookmarklet to add to ma.gnolia bookmarks
• If your bookmarking service is not here search the Firefox addins bookmarking category and you may find some tools.

Researching

• warichu bar * - add notes to webpages and discuss the page with others who have added an annotation. I would be interested in hearing the opinion of anyone who has used this. Also available for IE
• Yoono As you are browsing Yoono instantly suggests what others have discovered:
  websites, people and articles and includes a “one-click grab and share” for videos, photos and texts.It also includes a tool to keep your Yoono scrapbook and bookmarks synchronized across computers. Useful for researching and keeping up to date.
• EverNote Web Clipper *- I have not tried Evernote as I am still awaiting an invite - it is still in beta. The extension adds a “toolbar button and context menus to easily add a selection or an entire page to the EverNote Application as a new note.”
• Zotero - collect, manage and cite you research sources Homepage
• MyStickies
  - add notes and tags to pages for reference when you next visit
• Fleck - Save the best of the Web - annotation tool - bookmark websites including your own sticky notes. Fleck Homepage

Useful

• All-in-One Sidebar - always one of the first extensions I install - makes it so much easier to use bookmarks, browse history, deal with your extensions ….
• Tab Mix Plus - another must have for me - to choose my preferences for how links open in tabs
• IE Tab - Good when working on your blog styling - allows you to see what your page looks like in IE
• Extra Toolbar buttons
• Roboform Toolbar - save and easily insert site login details - you need to download the Roboform password manager program to use this. Free version only allows a limited number of saves - I bought the pro version and use it extensively. Roboform Homepage
• iGoogle Sidebar *- view you iGoogle page in a Firefox sidebar.
• Febe - back up your Firefox extensions, themes, bookmarks, preferences, cookies - you can set up an automatic scheduled backup
• Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
  - Sync bookmarks across computers. this is a popular extension although I have not had success with it - probably because of the amount of bookmarks I have.
• Google Browser Sync - if you use more than one computer this you can choose to sync bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords. - Requires a google identity (gmail address) When you set up for the first time you will be asked to create a pin number which you need to remember for setting up other machines to sync.
• If you do not want the full features of Google Browser Sync GMarks syncs and manages only your Firefox bookmarks.
• PlainOldFavorites * - use your Internet Explorer Favorites in Firefox.

Extensions can slow down your browser and cause crashes so try to use them in moderation. I am an extension addict but because of painfully slow browsing I now have 3 different profiles which I can run at the same time using the Profile Manager extension. Please see my post Speed Up your Firefox Browsing for more details.

If you do install all these extensions you may like to add another - PageAddict which lets you know how much time you have spent on websites and if you have an aversion to MySpace try the AmIOnMySpace.com? which will alert you if you have accidentally happened across a MySpace page. Happy browsing.

Do you have any favorite Firefox addins? Please do tell me about them.

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A brand new web application Zemanta could make your blogging life easier by suggesting content for you to include in your posts. It operates via a Firefox plugin and integration into your blog’s write post page. I am trying it out as I write this post and will include the content it suggests for you to get an idea of its effectiveness.

Zemanta analyzes your words as you write a blog post and suggests contextually relevant links, pictures, related content and tags which you can then incorporate into your post.

Supported Platforms:

• Blogger
• TypePad
• Wordpress.com
• and your own hosted Wordpress

Images are sourced from Wikimedia Commons, Flickr and various stock photo providers and suggested based on comparing your text and the image’s title, description and articles they were used in originally.

Related articles come from around 300 top media sources and numerous blogs of our users.

Most links point to Wikipedia at present but the idea is that users will help shape future development. In the near future you will be able to link to your own pictures and posts and those of friends.

Zemanta is another in the growing list of semantic web tools which offers you suggestions based on what it believes you want. I am impressed with what it produces, having written some practice posts on various subjects. I have tried the Yahoo Shortcuts Wordpress plugin, another content suggestion tool, but found that cumbersome to use and more limited in its offerings.

I did not expect the images to be very useful, considering the topic I am covering but here are a couple that were suggested.

Source: Wikipedia

One issue I have with including images is that only one was allowed - clicking on a second image replaced the first.

If I were writing about cooking, cats, australia, travel, fashion, I would expect more choices

I was a little disappointed with some of my searches. For example when I typed in “hunk” this is what was suggested - I still have not worked out why or whether the word refers to the ship or the Bush.

Source: Flickr

This image is more like what I expected from such a word, found via a direct search of Flickr:

Brad pitt shirtless

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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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I have talked previously of the advantages of hosting your own blog but only from the perspective of the blog itself. Owning your own domain and hosting package has other plusses, giving you freedom to create additional content for blogging and personal purposes.

All you need is enough free space on your host server to be able to install other software and the choices are endless. You may be thinking that this all sounds too hard and that you do not have the know how to install and manage anything more than blog software but, for a large proportion of the applications I talk about here, you already have the necessary skills. If you have installed and managed Wordpress, uploaded files to your own server there is often little else you need to know.

Expanding your blog site

The tendency is to go for additional applications that have a bridge via plugins to your blogging software. Even if the application is to be a part of your blog site, all it really takes is menu links to connect the two so a plugin is not necessary. The choice of application you use then becomes much wider and more likely to suit your own particular needs. This could be as simple as using the best gallery or forum software but you can broaden your horizons and add many other resources that enhance your blog.

Wordpress is touted as being a CMS (Content Management System) and it can certainly be used for more than just a blog interface. You can make use of static pages and plugins to expand its capabilities and uses. It does have limitations however and does not have all the same capabilities as some of the more complete CMS systems such as Drupal and Joomla. By using additional software alongside Wordpress you can create features for your site to suit your own needs and own niche. A few ideas:

• Install Drupal, Joomla or another CMS system and use only some of their features (e.g. groups, blogrolls, newsletters) or install other individual applications.
• Adding a wiki (TikiWiki) or forum could enhance communication with your readers and bring along more readers to your blog.
• Add your own choice of photo gallery or photo sharing capabilities. I will write a post about the options available soon.
• Many of the new Digg type voting sites are powered by Pligg, which you can download for free - you could find your own unique way to use this.
• If you add a blog directory application you could maintain a list of your own bookmarks or open it up to others to create a resource tailored to your own blog niche e.g. Dew-NewPHPLinks
• Add more value to the information you provide by adding Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) software. e.g. FAQMasterFlex
• Adding software that allows for password protection can allow you to create your own private community of friends and blogging contacts where members can feel free to talk more about themselves and add more personal information without worrying so much about revealing their identities or their online safety and security. This could even be achieved by using another installation of your blogging software and keeping this one members only.
• Make your own web pages - use software and online generators to help if you have no html knowledge.
• Use polling software with more features than available by plugin.
• Organize and get in touch with your blogging contacts and subscribers with mailing list software - PHPList
• Add a chat room with web cam e.g. Ray Community Widget Suite
• Create and host your own webring e.g.PHP My Ring

All of the software mentioned above is completely free. I have quoted applications that I have used or at least installed and looked at but there are many other alternatives. Most of them are part of the package offered by Fantastico Deluxe which is available free as part of some hosting packages and available via your CPanel. Fantastico allows you to easily install its included programs without having to upload, install and configure them manually. I will follow this post up with an article on Fantastico.

Personal Uses

Create a private area on your server, only viewable by family and friends or just for your own use. Applications you could use::

• Geneology Software - I use a reasonably priced commercial program TheNextGeneration
• Photo Galleries - here is a photo site I created for my daughter?
• Private blogs and communities
• Time management
• To do lists
• Host sites for family, friends or for non-profits

Resources

• OpenSource CMS - demos of many of the main CMS Systems
• List of open source software packages on Wikipedia
  • Content Management Systems
  • Wiki Software
• SOURCEFORGE.NET - A huge number of open source applications:
  • Internet Projects
  • Multirmedia
• Hotscripts - remotely hosted scripts (free and commercial)

There are of course many business applications that could be used to help in organization, collaboration, networking, advertising and promotion.

Do you have any suggestions for any other uses for your server?

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Will there be any alternative search engine to really challenge Google’s stranglehold in the near future? Will spam sites and parked domains continue to rate highly? Will we be able to search and actually easily find exactly what we are looking for? Will we be able to access a good range of valuable information on a topic without finding only those sites who have been successful in keyword and search engine optimization techniques?

Google Search does has a lot going for it. It is the most popular, many people are happier staying with something they are familiar with and it integrates with so many other highly used services, mostly its own. Google search did make search more effective and it does an fairly adequate job. Most people do not question it - it is just there. If they can’t find what they want users are likely to blame their own search terms.

Results based on keywords are not reliable. Take the word ‘Paris’ for example.

You would assume that such a search would result in travel sites and information on the capital city of France but the Google results are interspersed with Paris Hilton (lots of Paris Hilton) and ads for Disney and Las Vegas Hotels.

Alternate Search Engines

Checking out other search engines for the word “Paris” produced these results:

Semantic Search

“Semantic Search” attempts to incorporate “meaning” into the process by taking account of context and the interrelationships between words rather than isolated keywords and how backlinks there are to a site. For example:

Hakia Search Engine Beta

Human Edited Search Engines

Human edited search engines are being touted as a better system. Quality control issues plague current search engines - fully automated systems not being able to filter out all spam sites or those of little or no value.

Wikia Search Alpha

Launched in January 08 is a search engine in the making - if there are enough contributors to develop it into a comprehensive search engine. Its concept is that of “trusted user feedback from a community of users acting together in an open, transparent, public way”. Users are urged to help with the “mini articles” that appear at the top of popular search terms.

Mahalo

Another search engine that is developing around human submissions. Mahalo employs editors, paid contributors and volunteers to add sites and pages to the search engine.

The more approved links you recommend the higher your rank on the Mahalo Social Leaderboard. Link submission is achieved by searching for a specific term and then adding relevant sites. A curator managing the results for that term then decides if the link is to be rejected or added to the results page under “recommended links”.

Mahalo has just added a social profile component Anyone can now create a profile, recommend links for a search term, “make friends” and share recommended links. You can add your blog address and profiles from social networking sites such as Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn,Twitter and Pownce.

Mahalo Follow is a new toolbar for Firefox that allows you to view Mahalo’s search results next to the results from the major search engine of your choice or have them appear in response to pages you view on the web. You can submit recommendations using either the Mahalo toolbar or directly from the site.

It must be remembered that both these sites are in their early days of development and are not yet going to produce the range of results expected from fully developed search engines. I like the concept though and will be monitoring their progress.

Visual/Clustered Search Engines

Information is presented in a two dimensional ‘map’ rather than a one dimensional list.

Quintura

A visual search engine based on Yahoo! search. A search for a specific term will display a tag like collection of related terms surrounding your search term. Hovering over one of these related terms will display a similar cluster of terms relating to this term and so on. I have used Quintura on my Blogging Mentor Award page and here is an embedded example for the search term “Paris”

Others:

• Kartoo - Flash-based visual search
• Boogie
• Kool Torch

Metacrawlers

Meta crawlers do not crawl the web themselves but send out searches to other search engines to give you blended results. Example:

Clusty

• Dogpile
• Agent 55
• Grokker

For me the challenge is to remember to use alternatives to Google search more;to discover which produces the most relevant results and which suits my searching style. I would be interested to hear your suggestions or views on alternative search engines.

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Reading

• Justice Regins: Stumble Troll BANNED by SU - Collective Thoughts

• Zen Habits has declared that the entire site, is now be open source, renouncing copyright. This includes the contents of the bookZen to Done, which is for sale on the site. This came a week before
• Setup OpenID Comments To Follow In Blogger
• FeedJournal Web Service for Bloggers and Content Providers
• 10 Entrecard Traffic Tips for Success
• 51 Favorite SU, Sphinn, Twitter & Facebook Posts of 2007 written by social media and StumbleUpon expert, Shana on Social Desire.com
• Soup To Nuts is a relatively new blog carnival but with a difference. It is presented in five “courses”, each with a different host. Carnival Submission via Blog Carnival
• Would you integrate Forum software into your blog? at On Blogging Australia

Blogging Tools

• Postable - a nifty online tool to very quickly convert html code into code that you can include in posts.



• WPthemez - social bookmarking tool for Wordpress themes with voting tools.
• Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin for Wordpress? As you write your blog post, Shortcuts look for content matching yours - Flickr photos, places, companies, products, people etc.. If Shortcuts finds relevant content, it will let you know. I have just installed this and you can see the resulting images in this post.
• Mig of Top Hosting Center has written a review of JS Kit, some very useful blogging tools that don’t suck.Jazz up your Google homepage with themes or learn to create themes for yourself. I chose a beach scene which dynamically changes according to the time of day.
• There is a Google Talk widget for adding to blogs but I had problems getting it to behave in IE and, as I should have guessed, readers have to have a Google account to be able to use it.

Criteo Update

I changed the category I placed Criteo in to a more general one and instead of no visits it generatedl generated 23 visits on this blog, by 14 unique visitors. This blog link was displayed 29744 times on other blogs using Criteo AutoRoll and was seen by 6779 unique visitors.

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This cartoon pretty much sums up my feelings, after spending time importing and organizing feeds into Newsgator’s FeedDemon desktop RSS reader.

Cartoon by Dave Walker.

I was able to quickly import my existing subscriptions from Bloglines into FeedDemon, keeping the folder structure too - a large amount of feeds that I have collected over 4 years or so making many of them out of date, or no longer read, meaning a long reorganization for me.

Newsgator has recently made all its RSS suite of products free. In addition to FeedDemon they also offer NetNewsWire, the Mac version, NewsGatorGo for mobiles and NewsGator Inbox for Outlook.

All these RSS services synchronize with each other. For example, I can add feeds to Newsgator Online and they will appear in FeedDemon too. Other tools offered by Newsgator are Feedstation, which allows you to download multimedia content and synchronize it with your iPod or other portable media player and NewsGator Desktop (Beta) which resides in your system tray and informs you when there is an update to one of your feeds.

I thought I would give this method of reading feeds a try; although I still prefer to get some feeds delivered by email and some via email news reader, I found that I was not visiting Bloglines frequently to read the others.

Another useful tool from Newsgator is NewsFriends for Facebook users. “With NewsFriends, you just select friends and automatically get the news they are reading. You can also pick packages of popular feeds on topics like entertainment, sports, and top news selected by NewsGator editors or add news feeds directly.”

I could not resist reading instead of organizing and came across We Blog Cartoon by Dave Walker, which is where the above image comes from. Not only does Dave offer the use of the images for blogs but gives you the the link code to use the images directly from his site. After having a pleasant respite looking at his amusing cartoons, I had better carry on trying to get out from under the RSS pile. Before I go I thought I would share this one you too.

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