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How to use Twitter as a productivity tool

Ok, so there’s been a lot of buzz around Twitter, the tool I previously thought to be so-so in terms of productivity.  Well, I’ve started  using it again and found that I may have been a little off in my initial review. In case you’re not familiar with Twitter, it’s basically a tiny blogging tool ...

ecto Updates For Windows

The blog editor of choice for many seasoned bloggers, ecto just pushed out some updates for Windows users. Some of the major new things added: Added Flickr Search support for image upload. Added support for CSS style/class for image upload. Added support for generic tag format (e.g. Ultimate Tag Warrior) Added GoDaddy.com’s Quick Blog to ...

Treat RSS Feeds Like Books And Learn More

Let me start this post by saying that I love RSS. It speeds my day up by leaps and bounds. It’s a wonderful technology, and I can’t imagine what my life would be like without it. However, the embrace of RSS into our culture has had some serious ramifications, and has turned us into people ...

Content vs. Icons

37Signals’ blog has a great post that actually made me look much closer at elements of LifeDev, especially the design. The fellas at 37Signals argue that people who litter their post pages with the “bookmark me at X” buttons (like yours truly) aren’t focusing on what’s really important: the content. The reason posts wind up ...

The Best Blogging Advice Ever. Period.

This blog had huge success within the first month of its creation. It generated over 300,000 page views and had a very healthy RSS and Email subscriber base. That’s pretty rare for a brand new blog these days, especially with the blogosphere becoming more bloate..ahem, I mean with the exponential growth of the blogosphere as ...

The 13th Means Backup Your Blog

BloggerDesign.com has started an unofficial monthly backup your blog day. If you’ve ever lost a server, you know how scary of a thing it can be. It seems even scarier today considering it’s Friday the 13th. At least having a monthly backup in your pocket can restore at least a little of your site, and ...

6 RSS Tips For Blog Publishers

So now that we’ve covered 5 time saving RSS hacks for readers, I thought it might be fitting to give some tips for RSS publishers (like bloggers). RSS is crucial to developing a blog’s reader base for two main reasons; 1) It saves the reader time and 2) allows for more ways to distribute your ...

5 Time Saving RSS Reader Hacks

RSS is a somewhat new technology that breaks down webpages into their most simple form, for easy transport around the web. In short: it’s a way to find and read more news faster. Now that there are online RSS readers like My Yahoo!, Rojo and Bloglines, many people are leveraging this great technology. But many ...

Let Your Blog Posts Marinate (4 Steps to Forming Great Ideas)

Man, I can’t tell you how valuable this blogging tip is. Here’s what my typical blog posting process used to look like. I’d go hit up my RSS feeds at Rojo, flag the feeds I wanted to write about and crank out whatever I was thinking of at the time, all in one session. Occassionally ...

What the Frontpage of Reddit Does To A New Blog In 24 Hours

I decided to add my post on not checking your email first or last thing to Reddit almost exactly 24 hours ago. Since then, I’ve had the honor of being on the Reddit frontpage for all but one of those blissful hours, and has just recently been knocked from the frontpage. I have recieved huge ...

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