Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Click on over to Smashing Magazine to get a first-hand glimpse of 30 interesting blog designs. Some were very interesting. I liked Elitist Snob. It’s a clean, cute design that reminds me of Freelance Switch — a blog I enjoy reviewing on a regular basis. With only a month until the end of 2007, maybe […]

Liz Gaines over at NewTeeVee, following up on an earlier article on how to master viral video advertising, penned an interesting post about how a Stanford graduate student achieved over 20 million views on YouTube – but not necessarily in the most admirable way. Who you are, how you show up, what you do every […]

Newsweek reporter and author of Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster on the history of fashion, branding and luxury:

Dougal Campbell at Geek Ramblings shares some interesting thoughts in a white paper entitled How to Create a Secure WordPress Install which he ran across at BlogSecurity.net In this 10-page document, written by Philipp Heinze and David Kierznoski, you can learn what you need to know to make your WordPress install more secure. This whitepaper […]

Are you trying to navigate your way through the confusing world of SEO when it comes to optimizing your blog? Patrick Altoft, from the UK, is the author of Blogstorm, an internet marketing blog. In a recent article on SEOmoz.com, he shares some tips on how to reveal and/or cloak your incoming links depending on […]

Deb Ng, a freelance writer, wrote a post at Performancing about how she makes money with her blog. Posting about a prior story by Amy Derby who makes $1,000 per month on her blog, Deb shares with us what she’s doing in terms of monetization. From Adsense to Amazon, combined with a bit of Kontera […]

I know a lot of people that absolutely bust a nut over The World is Flat but I am not adept at separating his ideas (along with his horrendously awful execution of metaphor) from his cheerleading for imperialist racist foreign and economy policy. Glen Greenwald hits all the nails on the head: Almost five years […]

I’m not lucky enough to be a Nielsen family but I did just send back the questionnaire to be a Gallup household. You better watch out.

Just took this quiz: The 3 Variable Funny Test It rates your sense of humor across three axes. I ended up as The Cutting Edge. CLEAN | SPONTANEOUS | DARK (versus vulgar, complex and light)

Tim Ferris, author of The 4-Hour Workweek (my interview with him) did a fantastic job troll-baiting the blogosphere this week with a post titled: How to Test Drive Friends and Irritate People In the post, Ferris talks about that along with streamlining our work and lifestyle we could also manipulate our friends or potential friends […]