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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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