Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

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Dave is up against some crazy competition – but all I know is whenever I Google ANYTHING about learning how to use my Mac Mini he always comes up. Vote for Ask Dave Taylor for Best Tech Blog for the Weblog Awards.

Do you get the ‘hungry-bitchies’? You know what I mean. You’re hungry or your blood sugar is low and you find yourself staring at the wall for longer than usual or just wishing the person across from you would just! shut! up! That’s the hungry-bitchies. Make no decisions when you are hungry.

Jim over at BlogKits is back with a challenge to all the probloggers – and those bloggers that have low-traffic – out there: 99% of blogs don’t get enough traffic to make it [AdSense] worthwhile. Use our tool to find out more. Of course he’s hoping you’ll check out the BlogKits ad network that he’s […]

As commercial book publishing crashes, personal book publishing is booming. … These printed-on-demand books are indistinguishable from commercially printed books. In fact, some of the books you buy on Amazon are manufactured with this same technology. You just can’t tell the difference. However, being able to print as few as one copy — instead of […]

From a former TechCrunch blogger – how he managed to stay up to date and on top of an entire industry: Open Sourcing My TechCrunch Work Flow. Nugget: The single most helpful tool for me in my efforts to blog about news events first has been an RSS to IM/SMS notification tool. I use Zaptxt […]

Fantastic guide on moving from Blogger to WP – says it all: Moving from Blogger to WordPress: Best Practices

Lawrence Lessig on a key difference between YouTube and Flickr: So there’s an important distinction developing among “user generated contentâ€? sites — the distinction between sites that permit “true sharingâ€? and those that permit only what I’ll call “fake sharing.â€? A “true sharingâ€? site doesn’t try to exercise ultimate control over the content it serves. […]

How Blogs Changed the World The language of blogging is more digestible. You can’t write a blog like a press release, so the words have to be more direct, unscripted, and easier to understand. Bloggers who try to hide behind marketing-speak will be called out. Blogs are written in a narrative style that gives better […]

Be Yourself to Make the Most of Social Networking However you decide to use social networking, it has to fit your organization. If your organization trembles at the thought of open and public feedback, you better think twice about social networking. But if video clips can tell your story and you’re willing to give up […]