WP Theme: Subtle Two column, polished theme for WordPress with equal column sizes. There is also a .psd file for Photoshop with the header image and a darker version of the theme available for download. Thanks BloggingPro

SEOmoz Page Strength: Determine how your blog ranks in terms of search engines, linkage, relative importance, visibility etc. I found some interesting Yahoo searches with this tool that I did not know existed. Thanks Andreas

Paying the top amateurs: – The Jason Calacanis is paying the top DIGG/REDDIT/Flickr/Newsvine users (or “$1,000 a month for doing what you’re already doing.”). Another link on bloggage for money draws some interesting conclusions on the incentive(s) for blogging and from the Pew Blogger Survey.

Cloaking to Stop Scraping How to cloak your blog content from known content theives. This is a little extreme but it did have very good results in this case.

India Imposes Ban on Blogs? I pose this link as a question because there seems to be a lot of misinformation surrounding this topic with no specific answer from the authorities. The various comments suggest that this ban might be sporadic at best though there definitely is a problem. If you are viewing this blog from India, what are your thoughts? Can you visit the allegedly banned pages from your ISPs’ connection?

WP Theme: WP-Andreas01 1.3 Sobre, yet different, organized and bold three column theme for WordPress by the talented Andreas.

WP Plugin: Slug Trimmer Very interesting plugin that truncates long post slugs. I know that I have been guilty in the past of writing long slugs. I have got sick of URLs that end in really long post slugs that look-something-like-this-and-are-far-too-long so I wrote a little plugin that shortens post slugs more intelligently than simply truncating them.

WP Theme: Unnamed One Interesting three column theme for WordPress with a Drupal like feel to it.