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web publishing

What Does 9Rules Need?

March 1, 2010

What does 9Rules need?
Have a look at the net­work and give your feed­back to the blog. A few years ago 9Rules was an active, vital net­work of blogs. Peo­ple applied to join. Peo­ple made embit­tered posts on their blogs if they were not accepted. Peo­ple put that leaf graphic on their blog in a […]

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Picons: Your Personal Icon

February 23, 2010

Picons are an old idea that can be new again. A picon is a per­sonal icon. Much like the fav­i­con cre­ated for a site or blog, the picon is for your­self. Another chance to use the pop­u­lar self brand­ing plan. Have you already got a picon which you use to rep­re­sent your­self, an avatar? If […]

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Back Tweets

February 9, 2010

Back­Tweets — Find out who has been talk­ing about you on Twit­ter. Nice! I had a few good surprises.

Book­mark It

Hide Sites

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Fixed my WordPress List Formatting Glitch

January 28, 2010

I’ve made a few list posts, mostly bul­let style. The prob­lem was the for­mat­ting, all my points were crammed together in a solid block of text. It made the post kind of unsightly and not very easy (or desir­able) to read. If I tried to add a space it would try to make it my […]

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Nominated for Best Twitter Bio

January 5, 2010

What do you have for your Twit­ter bio? It’s the space you have on your Twit­ter pro­file to say some­thing about your­self. Not a lot of space, it is Twit­ter after all.
I nom­i­nate @DPop­Tart for best Twit­ter bio.
The wind says my name. It doesn’t put an @ in front of it, so maybe you don’t notice.
Now that […]

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A Comment a Day

December 3, 2009

Every­one can leave one com­ment in one blog each day. Pretty sim­ple. If you were away you can catch up by doing an extra com­ment the next day. No stress. Just one sin­cere and inter­est­ing com­ment per day. No prob­lem. Pick any blog you like. A blog you have been read­ing awhile or one you […]

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Hyperlocal, What is It?

December 2, 2009

I’ve seen the term hyper­local come up three times lately. I decided to spend some time to find out what it is exactly and how it is being used.
Of course, Wikipedia comes up first in the results I get from Google. : Hyper­local -
refers to the emer­gent ecol­ogy of data (includ­ing tex­tual con­tent), aggre­ga­tors, publication […]

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AKA Happy at Last">A Frustration of Errors AKA Happy at Last

November 23, 2009

I’ve been hav­ing trou­ble upload­ing graph­ics into my posts. It started awhile ago when I updated to another ver­sion of Word­Press. I ignored it for awhile cause I wasn’t doing a lot of draw­ing at the time. Then I tried to fix it, no suc­cess. I couldn’t even fig­ure out the prob­lem. Each time I […]

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Do You Shut Down Comments on Old Posts?

November 12, 2009

Do you have your com­ment spam fil­ter set to auto­mat­i­cally delete any com­ments on older posts? While this will get rid of a lot of spam for you it also could delete some real com­ments.
We have posts in our archives which we leave for any­one to find, through search­ing or through links on other sites. […]

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Are Blog Archives Too Old Fashioned?

November 6, 2009

What are rea­sons to keep an archive on your blog? We have cat­e­gories and tags. An archive may seem a bit pre­his­toric or overkill, espe­cially when they aren’t search able and just sit there all sta­tic and grow­ing old. Tony Bri­ley started this dis­cus­sion on the CMF Ads forum.
Rea­sons for keep­ing an archive on your blog:

Web […]

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Eye of Newt, Rule of Thumb and Hands of the Clock…

November 4, 2009

It’s a bit dis­ap­point­ing to go to a favourite blog and find they have no new updates at the time you expect them to be there.
What time do you make your blog posts? Even if you don’t choose (or have avail­able) sched­uled blog posts you can pick a good time for mak­ing a post go live […]

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How To Build Your Own Web Directory

October 28, 2009

Once upon a time I was an edi­tor in the great Dmoz (Open Direc­tory Project) web direc­tory. I stayed there about ten years as an active edi­tor. Now I am edit­ing in the BOTW direc­tory. I still like adding sites, car­ing for and main­tain­ing a list for a topic I am pas­sion­ate about. How­ever, it […]

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7 WordPress Plugins I Don’t Really Need but Must Have Anyway

October 28, 2009

Word­Press plu­g­ins that I love but don’t really need. (Why limit your­self to plu­g­ins you need?)

Drop Caps Plu­gin — Add a drop cap to the first let­ter of each blog post. (Makes me think of fairy tale books of old).
Per­sonal Fav­i­con — I had wanted an icon for awhile but could not find some­thing to make it […]

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Designing Your Own 125x125 Blog Ad

October 26, 2009

You need to cre­ate a small 125 x 125 pix­els square ad for your blog if you want to use ad net­works and link exchanges like CMF Ads, Adg­i­tize, Project Won­der­ful, Tech­no­rati Engage, Yahoo Pub­lisher Net­work (US only), Google Adsense, Blog Ads, Spottt and 125 Exchange. (Pub­lisher Spot will give you reviews of ad networks […]

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Give a Link Even if you Don’t have a Blog

October 21, 2009

These days we assume peo­ple have a blog, not every­one does how­ever. Or, some might not want to leave a link to their blog for what­ever rea­son. (For instance, some­one writ­ing adult con­tent might not want to have that link rep­re­sent them when they are just shar­ing gen­eral infor­ma­tion with oth­ers).
If you are leav­ing comments […]

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