Category: General

Just ordered some hardware and am glad I can track it through SimpleTracking.com’s interface instead of having to login to UPS everytime I want to get an update. Memo to UPS: Wake up.

Google has created Flash demos on how to use their AdSense services. Google AdSense Demos (via Cash Keywords)

NPR’s On the Media interviews Jim Amos of the Times-Picayune: Blogs is an absolutely essential part of this whole effort. It forms the stories and we harvest from it for the stories as well as from our own reporting. It is an important link to readers.

Blog carnivals are highlight reels of the best blog posts of a certain topic – with a different hosting blog each week. Here’s a submission form for all of the carnivals out there. Fill it in, check the appropriate carnivals and submit that baby! Here’s an explanation of carnivals.

Ever wonder if your blog or site looks great in every browser possible? For just a few Euros, Browsershots will deliver you a whole photo gallery of your site in multiple browsers on multiple operating systems. Here’s how my new blog template is looking. I’m still tweaking it for the Linux and Opera browsers. The […]

Problogger Darren Rowse has just announced his earnings for August from his blogs: Over 325 people from all over the world have already signed up for the free sneak preview call for our course Six Figure Blogging. The call is next Wednesday Sept 7th @ 8pm EST. Click here to register for this free call. […]

Wall Street Journal weighs in: In a key decision in 2003, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that the operator of a Web site can post material from others without liability for the content. “I think there’s a strong case to be made that [the Decency Act] applies to bloggers,” said […]

World of Warcraft is one of the largest multi-player online games out there and probably a good escape for many young boys from the trials of their parents. But what if your mom showed up? if you don’t want your mother to know you were up and on the computer at 3:29 in the morning […]

CNN news anchor calling for viewers to send in photos of the Katrina damage – calling them ‘citizen journalists.’ Wondering if CNN has used the term before or if this is a recent development.

(What does it say about new tech when the biggest attractors are either sex/erotica or religion?) [Kyle] Lewis, who regularly attends services of the National Community Church in Alexandria, Va., listened to the sermon while he was at the gym, through a recording he had downloaded to his iPod. Instead of listening to the rock […]