News
- Daniel of Blogging Tips has initiated RSS Awareness Day to take place 1st May. The objective – to get as many people as possible talking about RSS and its benefits. Read his blog for More details on how to get involved.
- If there is a web article that you do not have time to read there and then consider using Instapaper which, via a browser bookmarklet, saves the details for reading later. You could, instead, just leave a multitude of tabs open with the intent of coming back to them, slowing your browser down until it eventually crashes (I don’t recommend this although I often use this method!) or you could bookmark or favorite to a folder called “read later”.
- Liz Strauss – SOBCon08 and Utterz announce the
GET MY MESSAGE Contest!! Do a Commercial for Your Blog.
Reading
- Blog Profiling Sites Declare War! Who Wins� It seems BlogCatalog is gaining favor and MyBlogLog is declining. I personally favor BlogCatalog since the new features were introduced.
- The 100 top Web apps for 2008
These are the 100 best Web 2.0 applications, chosen by Webware readers and Internet users across the globe. Over 1.9 million votes were cast to select these Webware 100 winners:
Blogging Tools
- 55 Active RSS Directories to Help Promote Your Feeds! – the title says it all.
- Fontcubes is a free font site in beta.
Social Networking
- Oziwi is a Ning based social networking site for “Connecting people Down Under all over the world”.
- SocialVibe is an online popularity contest that turns corporate advertising into money for charity. Add ads to your profile and gain points for the number of views. Review on ReadWriteWeb
- Shiftr – a new RSS aggregator service which is bad news for bloggers as it allows comments via their service rather than on our blogs. Read more at the Blog Herald: The Shyftr Saga
WordPress
- Wordbook – a plugin that lets you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Mini-Feed. Your Facebook profile will also show your most recent blog posts.
- Free, Premium and custom WordPress themes are available at Blog Oh!Blog I thought the free Tutorial theme interesting.
Fabien from SmallFishBigMoney.Com says
Thanks for linking to my article about Blog Profiling Sites. The new updates Alexa charts show BlogCatalog is even further in the lead than previously thought – I will have to do an reprise post. I look forward to visiting your blog again very soon. Keep the Australian blogs going! Many Thanks and Kind Regards, Fabien
Sueblimely says
You are welcome – I am going to link to your post on guest bloggers too. I have been enjoying reading your blog.
tahn says
Hi there! You are invited to a focus group discussion (FGD) on May 1, 2008 (Thursday) to be conducted by a team from dot ph domain(i.ph). FGD is to be held at Jollibee Plaza, Emerald Avenue, Ortigas at Dot ph domain office. FGD would be after office hours, approximately starting around 630-7pm. Snacks will be provided. Please do leave a message on my board or email me if interested thanks π
Trish says
thanks for sharing this Sue RSS awareness day – I put a post up too. I don’t know how I managed before I used rss.
Suze says
Sue..your blog is just a mine of information, I don’t know how you do it, but I”m glad you do! π
Sueblimely says
Thanks Suze, I really appreciate your kind comment. Sometimes I wonder if I am adding any value to the blogosphere so reading things like this gives me a boost. π
RennyBA says
I do agree with Suze: yours is a blog vault of great ways to improve blogsphere. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience!
Sueblimely says
Thanks Renny – this gives me impetus to keep up my research.
dianeca says
Good info. I am doing research for a Masters program and I use an RSS feed to keep me up to date on new items within my area of interest. Very handy tool!!
Sueblimely says
Thanks Diane
Feeds are certainly a real time saver when it comes to research. I use Google Alerts where I can specify the topic clearly and that produces good results too.
Fabien from SmallFishBigMoney.Com says
@ Sublimely: Great to hear you are enjoying reading the blog. I like the format of the blog post you do, it is very structured and flows very well. Thanks π
Enviormental Cleaning says
I agree with your post. Which is not something I will usually do! π I enjoy reading a post that will make one think. Also, thanks for allowing me to comment!