Category: General
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How Del.icio.us Helps Libraries and Academia
From the del.icio.us blog: Top 100 Tools for Learning — according to lists contributed by learning professionals, Delicious ranks first. Last year we were second only to Firefox. Library Journal explains why Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us. 7 things you should know about Social Bookmarking (PDF) is a primer from a university perspective, written by […]
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Blogger Launches Help Videos on YouTube
From the Blogger blog: For all you visual learners who want to add features to your blog, but don’t have the patience to browse our help articles, we’ve created the new Blogger Help YouTube Channel. There you can find videos that show you step by step how to use Blogger features.
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Tweaking Your robots.txt File
Shoemoney talks about his robots.txt file and how it guards against duplicate content in search engine results. Most of the strategies he’s using can be replicated for Movable Type and TypePad users.
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Changing Your TypePad Blog’s Banner and Background with Custom CSS
Yay! My first tutorial as a Six Apart-er is up: Changing Your Page Banner with Custom CSS which was quickly followed by Changing Your Blog’s Background with Custom CSS.
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‘Stuff White People Like’ Blogger Nabs Book Deal
I knew this would happen as soon as I found myself giggling at the long essays of what white people like to do over at Stuff White People Like: San Francisco: [I]t is important to be aware of the fact that regions outside of San Francisco feature many people who are not white, gay or […]
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Nonstop from Chicago to San Francisco
Remaining to-do’s: Today Send out 1-week reminder for Six Figure Blogging preview call 8pm – Get someone to take the box-spring and bedframe Figure out how to dispose of the mattress 6pm – Show apartment to possible sub-let, give her the app forms 8:30pm – Ship more boxes Take cats to vet get health certificates […]
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Contact Form Freak of the Week
From time to time I get some clueless submissions to my contact form. Here’s a new one: Hi… my doubt is very basic.. actually i m new to blogging world so i m confused about what to blog, can u suggest some topic which can help me to make some easy money My advice: Buy […]
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Furrygoat’s, Letts’ and Zawinski’s Law
Coding Horror is one of my favorite technology blogs (I first found it via Reddit). It always startles me how often the concerns and concepts of programming reach directly into so many parts of business and everyday life. Here blogger Jeff Atwood goes off on feature bloat – the tendency of software to add more […]
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Microsoft Live Writer Just Blew My Mind
I’ve been a fan of desktop blogging clients for a long time. For some reason, anything less than millisecond publishing via browser just drives me batty. I think eventually I’ll be enraged I can’t just glare at the screen and have it instantly type my mood and publish it. I’ve used clients like Kung-Foo’s Ecto […]
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Starbucks Customers Sound Off on Digg/Dell Ideastorm Clone
Shel points to the new Starbucks idea site for customers to submit ideas and vote them up if they think are good ieas. Dell had started this with their IdeaStorm site that was inspired by sites like Digg. My favorites so far from the Starbucks customers: Automatic ordering via swipe of card: Starbucks should enable […]