This is the eleventh entrant in The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you. This is written by Ronald Huereca When writing for a blog, there are what seems an endless amount of topics to choose from. Bloggers write about design, cars, blogging, technology, gadgets, and more. However, there comes a time when bloggers are running on empty and can’t decide what to write about. During those lull-in-blogging moments, certain bloggers may be tempted to write about topics as useless as making a grilled-cheese sandwich. Throughout my limited exposure in the blogging world, I have come across topics that seem as taboo as yelling “bomb” in a movie theater. Within this […]

This is the tenth entrant in The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you. This is written by Infocrat Who are bloggers? Why do they blog? What do they blog about? Find out. Why do people keep blogs? What drives millions of people to spew billions of weightless words out into the void? Some, perhaps most, are personal bloggers. They create a blog as a public diary, so that their friends, family, and fan clubs can keep tabs on what they’re up to from day to day. It’s a way of record-keeping as well; it’s comforting to look back through one’s archives and find that the all-consuming troubles of November 2005 […]

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WordPress for Dummies Due out in August 2007. Though I share in her apprehension that the books will become obsolete the minute it comes out, it will also bring a lot of attention to WordPress and it would surely be used to some capacity by many people. Congratulations Lisa!

WP Plugin: MyAvatars, a Gravatar replacement You can now use MyAvatars, a plugin that shows MyBlogLog’s avatars in your comments instead of Gravatar’s ones even if you’re not subscribed to MyBlogLog.com. Very cool! I did not see anything about image caching and the ability to use the MyBlogLog avatars on posts would be a cool addition, but this is much appreciated and much needed plugin. Thanks MyBlogLog Blog (that was a mouthful)

This is the ninth entrant in The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you. This is written by The Simple Dollar Also, please read about their favorite charity, The Child Abuse Prevention Center The film The Shawshank Redemption has become something of a Western pop culture touchstone, mostly because it is the story of an individual human spirit refusing to break and, in that refusal, rising up to inspire others. In the end, isn’t that the story that we hope that our blogs will tell, one that rises above the morass of other blogs to inspire and entertain others? It turns out that the film contains an abundance of lessons about […]

This is the eighth entrant in The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you.This is written by Steven Hodson from WinExtra.com I’ve tried several times to start this essay using various hot ticket items as a starting point and in the end I hit the delete button and come back to the why’s and wherefore’s of why I started blogging. Not that the idea of sharing my thoughts or points of view was anything new for me. After all when you’ve been around computers as long as I have; going on the better part of 20 years, you see a lot of the next big thing‘s come and go. Long before […]

This is the seventh entrant in The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you. This is written by Tim from ptvGuy Worthy of note is that this essay was written before my last post on comment spam floods and was submitted a few days ago but was lost in my spam-can. I just couldn’t pass up this opportunity to publicly acknowledge the incredible spam community out there for their unbelievably huge investment of time and thought and innovation in their efforts to spam my blog. I am absolutely in awe of the shear willpower of these people in the face of such widespread rejection. And, quite frankly, I just want them […]