Daniel from DailyBlogTips is running a series called Bloggers Face Off and this time I am featured along with engtech. I like featured posts like this because they not only promote the participants (and thus gives you brownie points) but they also help to increase traffic with the right methods and intentions. Daniel has run this series very effectively with a lot of high profile bloggers. The interview questions were relatively simple and all in good fun. Thanks Daniel.
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FeedBurner MyBrand Now Free: Feedburner’s service that allowed publishers to publish their feeds through their own domain with the help of Feedburner, is now free of cost. This service used to cost upwards of $3 and might be a good way to retain the transparency and control over the feeds of your blog if you choose to serve them through Feedburner. [EDIT] Looks like Google decided to make the Pro Stats feature of Feedburner free as well. This is definitely good news!
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11 things to do before you hit the Publish button: Shankar Ganesh lists 11 things that you should do as a blogger before you hit the publish button. I have a few more that I would like to add. Sleep on (some of) your posts. I have often done this to keep myself from making bad choices in publishing some items. This is more for after I post something. I strongly believe that edits are a necessity and should not be avoided. If I make changes to a post after it has been published, I mark my posts to display the changes clearly. It makes the message clearer and adds continuity to the “story”. Preview posts before publishing them. This is more true for blogs with active feeds and especially important for blogs that use Feedburner. Formatting and WYSIWYG are nice but it is also quite easy to go overboard. […]
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More stats from whos.amung.us: I really liked the service when it was first started and the recent improvements just add a little more icing to the cake. Now you can view the number of simultaneous users on your site or blog in graph format for the day, month or year. There is also a neat little search feature to modify your past stats for a certain date range. You can now tweak the widget for your blog by choosing the color of the background and the text in the widget to suit the layout of your site and there are options for the size of the widget. I chose the TechCrunch stats because they are much more interesting to monitor but as you can tell, I installed the widget on this blog on the first day I found it and unlike other tools, it is still displayed on this blog. […]
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Iconlet is a search engine for icons that are available for public distribution and use. Various GNU, Eclipse and CC licensed icons of different sizes can be searched by name. ClickHeat is a self hosted, flat file based heatmap generator that is much like Crazyegg, only not as featureful and it might increase load on your server. Also checkout a gallery of various other AJAXy downloadable scripts from MiniAjax. Many of these already exist as WordPress plugins and others are yearning to be integrated into WordPress. Subscribe to a translated feed: Rafe Needleman from Webware (of Webware 100 fame, of which WordPress won the publishing category recently) explains how to subscribe to a translated feed using Yahoo pipes and Babelfish. The method is very simple and takes a few minutes. I created a feed for WeblogToolsCollection.com translated into French. Thanks Lifehacker
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If you post code on your WordPress blog, you could use a code beautifier plugin such as syntax highlighter or you could include your code in <pre> tags. They preserve line breaks, multiple blanks, tabs between words and other formatting commonly used in code. However, in some cases, if body of your blog is narrow(er) or your line of code is really long, it will not wrap and will overflow over your sidebar. You can just hide the overflow but that still will look tacky and not very usable. On performing a little search, I discovered that Tyler Longren had already come up with a clever hack to solve the problem. If you add the following code to your stylesheet, it will wrap the long lines of code. pre { white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */ white-space: -moz-pre-wrap !important; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */ white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */ white-space: […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Plugin Releases for 6/15
The WordPress Plugin Competition 2.0 has been getting a lot of good press in the past few weeks and we already have four interesting and useful plugins announced for the competition. If you are planning to participate, why don’t you register on the PluginBlog and post your announcement? The last date to submit your plugin is the 31st of July. Lots of new prizes have been announced for the competition including over $700 in prize money from myself, Ajay, Jonathan and Darren, a Hostgator sponsored dedicated server for a year, an 8GB iPod Nano from Imthiaz, more hosting from PJMommy, a signed copy of Lorelle’s new book and a copy of Angsuman’s latest Translator Pro. Thanks to Matt, Lorelle and others for helping to promote the competition. Oz and Lorelle have also helped me make the PluginBlog more user friendly and clean it up. Ajay is helping me judge the […]
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Trackbackers is a plugin that allows you to link back to the domains that send the most trackbacks to you, much like top commenters. It might be a good idea to run some kind of trackback validation or Akismet with this plugin. High Keyword density Plugin checks for the user-agent and removes certain common words from the post text accordingly. So when Googlebot visits your page, it won’t be seeing these words, while your readers can still read your meaningful sentences. I am not sure of the viability or the effectiveness of this plugin but it might be on the border of being Google un-friendly. Please use at your own risk [EDIT] We choose not to promote this plugin. Please see comments below. AJAX Edit Comments 1.1 allows admin and users to edit comments from a post. Users see a countdown timer when editing a comment. Admin can now also […]
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WP Plugin: Listen Button: Create instant podcasts from your blog text with this plugin from Odiogo.com. It creates a “Listen” button on your blog that people can click to listen to the text of a post. The content is read by a machine and the voice stream is linked in a flash player format on your blog. The mp3 resides on the Odiogo server and can also be downloaded. Weblog Tools Collection can now be downloaded in a podcast format with the help of this service. You can do the same for your blog by signing up for their podcast service. I am not sure this format makes sense for the staccato delivery of this blog but it might be a cool feature for blogs with longer articles and lesser linked content. At the very least, it is a novelty for any blogger that always wanted to hear themselves type […]
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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