http://www.simon-says-online.com trying to make a mark.... Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:44:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been a while since I've wrote on this blog and there have been many reasons for this.  If you have multiple blogs/sites then trying to balance projects with real life can get tedious. At work chances are you use a program such as Microsoft Outlook to keep tabs on meetings, ... http://www.simon-says-online.com/blogging/website-update-organisation/ It would seem that several ex Google employee's have created there own search engine called Cuil (pronounced cool). Home page states at time of writing you can search 121,617,892,992 web pages.  The textbox is ajax enabled which means that it shows you suggestions as you type.  Results are returned differently from ... http://www.simon-says-online.com/search-engines/cuil-search-engine/ It's been a while since I took a trip over to http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/.  Tonight I thought I would have a nosey. It would seem that the themes area has been re-vamped.  At current time of writing it would seem that there are only 48 themes on the system but show more than ... http://www.simon-says-online.com/blogging/word-press-themes/ At the beginning of the month I wrote about podcastkicks.com. What I failed to mention in this post is the following : If you submit a podcast and you have entered your google adsense id in your profile, 50% of the ads are yours. You have the possibility to earn some money ... http://www.simon-says-online.com/technology/podcast-kicks-revisited/ Ok so I have finally started doing something with the entrecard system and I have to say that my card currently looks plain and simple. When I first joined Entrecard I found a site that had a variety of different designs that could be used freely.  I think it's a nice thing ... http://www.simon-says-online.com/learning/entrecard-design/ 2 nights ago I started to drop cards on the entrecard system.  Previous I just let my widget sit there and do nothing.  Now it's filled with a "featured blog". While dropping I have discovered some very interesting blogs.  It's surprising how many people out there who like me blog for ... http://www.simon-says-online.com/blogging/entrecard-step-1/ Are you looking for a Free .com domain?  Well, the answer is dreamhost.  All you need to do is head over to dreamhost and enter the promotion code : DHFREEDOMAIN With dreamhost you'll get 500gb of diskspace, 5tb of bandwidth of which over the duration increases. Not only do you get the ... http://www.simon-says-online.com/promotions/dreamhost-free-com-domain/ I think part of blogging is giving something back to the readers.  9/10 would be the ability to have your name "John Doe" with a link to your site on any comments that are made.  Recently I have noticed that couple of sites have turned off the ability to enter ... http://www.simon-says-online.com/wordpress/would-you-comment/ I keep saying that I'll actually do more with my entrecard but I really don't have the motivation to.  I have discovered some really good blogs that use entrecard but also have discovered some darker side ones.  When I say dark side, I mean blogs that don't have much content ... http://www.simon-says-online.com/blogging/entrecard-frozen-in-time/ With internet connections getting faster and faster the availability of different types of media is expanding by the day.  Many top TV channels are launching "players" that allow users to watch repeats up to 30 days later like the BBC's iPlayer. Another form of media is podcasting.  There are thousands of ... http://www.simon-says-online.com/technology/podcast-community-driven-site/