Problogger Lists the 5 Essential OSX-Mac Blogging Tools

Problogger’s 5 Essential OSX Blogging Tools, written by guest blogger Glenn Wolsey, is a great look at your various options for blogging on the Mac platform. Site Search Tags: blog, blogging, blogging platform, blogging tools, mac, mac bloggers, blogging on the mac, mac computers, osx, apple Copyright Lorelle VanFossen, member of the 9Rules Network

Abhijit Nadgouda’s List of WordPress Global Variables

Abhijit Nadgouda has an entire category of posts on “WordPress Global Variables” that are worth exploring if you are writing WordPress Plugins, WordPress Widgets, or messing around with WordPress Themes and template tags. Here are some great highlights of the many WordPress Global Variables Nadgouda has written about: Dates: month, weekday_abbrev, weekday, monthnum, m (by […]

Aboutus.org: A Wiki Directory With Every Website Listed

TechCrunch discussed “AboutUs: A Wiki About Every Website” recently. Portland, Oregon based AboutUs announced this week that it has closed a Series A round of funding and raised $1 million. The site is a wiki directory of web sites, mostly populated automatically but with a healthy amount of traffic and a growing number of edits […]

Awesome Lists of Firefox Must-Have Extensions Lists

It took me a long time to get past my fear of leaving Microsoft Internet Explorer. I wasn’t convinced that there could possibly be a better browser, especially one that was free. “Free” to me meant cheap, something wrong with it, cripple-ware, and a trick to get you to buy it. In my wildest dreams […]

WordPress.com Blogs: New Features List

WordPress.com has finally put together a neat WordPress.com Features List page to help people understand what features are available for WordPress.com users and potential users. If you haven’t been keeping up with all you can do with a WordPress.com blog, take a look. Even I found a few goodies I’d missed along the way. Related […]

I Can Put Your Site at the Top of Search Engine Listings

I just got my eighth email in the past two days with the following “invitation”: I can put your site at the top of a search engines listings. This is no joke and I can show proven results from all our past clients. If this is something you might be interested in, send me a […]

Review of Best Minimalist WordPress Themes

Are you looking for a simple, clean, and very basic looking WordPress Theme design? Plaintxt.org has reviewed many WordPress Themes and recommends “The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes”. I’m sharing some of the best—and more interesting—minimalist WordPress themes that are publicly available. Many may react to these by thinking of all the ways they could be […]

WP-SNAP WordPress Plugin: Alphabetized Index Listing of Posts for Category Pages

Many people use their blogs like encyclopedias, wikis, or great repositories of information. Or for handling collections of information such as quotes, poetry, recipes, code, research, or facts. Others write reviews of books, movies, television shows, and technology. So wouldn’t it be slick to be able to sort through the collection of posts in alphabetical […]

Hopeless Sensei’s List of Blogging Do’s and Don’ts

Whether or not you are a fan of anime, Hopeless Sensei’s “Anime Blogging – What to do and what to avoid” is a delightful list of things bloggers should do and not do when blogging. While aimed at the anime market and industry, it should apply to all bloggers. Here are a few examples. Do […]

Big Business – Listen to Bloggers, Please

Holtz has a great article, “Customer Service on the Edge”, which explains why bloggers are so important to businesses. Companies that listen to bloggers have a unique opportunity to improve their reputations and win converts to their business models. Listening, after all, is a critical element of communication, but one that most organizations employing traditional […]

New and Improved Top 100 Bloggers List

I know that a lot of you are fans of the Top 100 Bloggers List that I’ve recommended. It’s one of the first most popular bloggers lists on the net and continues to improve all the time. Well, they have a new look and some major improvements and it’s time to take another look at […]

Blogger as Researcher – Almost a Journalist?

In a short and well-written post, Gail Fisher of the The Los Angeles Times writes about the “Journalist as Researcher” on Poynter Online. While aimed at journalists, it made me think about the blogger as a form of journalist, reporting upon the world around them. Here are some important points she makes. Read: Be well-read. […]

List of Free Online Storage Sites

J. Dempsey (Creative Guy) created a list of free online storage sites that takes a good look at a variety of online file storage sites. Online file storage is a great way to backup your computer and web pages, as well as your images. Some sites specialize in storing photographs and images, mostly for public […]

Top 10 Worst Americans – Not Just Your Average Top 10 List

With very innovative style, All Things Beautiful is challenging the Blogosphere to blog about their Top 10 Worst Americans, and it appears to be taking the blog world by storm. The post itself is a challenge, not a list. From within the post and comments are numerous links to bloggers not only listing their top […]

Huge List of Free Open Source Programs

Wikipedia is an amazing resource and someone has compiled a huge list of free open source programs at List of Open Source Software Packages. The list is broken down by type including math, finance, word processing, assisting technology, file manager, games, media, internet, networking, education, and so many more. If a link is in red, […]