How Not to Email a Blogger: Not only do I find this post funny, something (somewhat) similar happened to me recently. I really want to go into a tirade on rude PR people asking favors of bloggers but without boring everyone to death, I would like to say that at least be decent and learn to take a no for an answer. Really, no means no. [EDIT] Sorry, looks like the link was pulled.

FF Extension: X-Ray View your markup on a Firefox page without having to view source. Sometimes quite unreadable, extremely useful at others. Thanks 456 Berea Street

WP hack: Widgetizing Themes Modify your themes to work with the cool WordPress.com widgets for the sidebar. Explanation of widgets on the Automattic page. [EDIT] Widgets Plugin with demonstrations from Andy.

WP plugin: Duh Gallery Simple, folder based photo gallery for WordPress.

Peter has just released v1.2 of his Sociable Plugin. It fixes a few more bugs to make it compatible with WordPress 1.5 as well as 2.0. Social bookmarking sites allow websurfers to save, catalog, and share interesting pages they find online. The Sociable plugin appends links for your readers to use those sites to the end of each of your blog’s posts, increasing your potential audience.

So I am looking to remove some of the items in my news feeds and add new ones. I read a whole bunch of relevant topics along with a whole bunch of unrelated and useless feeds that are interesting to me but not really of any “news” value. In all, I have about three hundred feeds that I try to peruse everyday. I recently started using FeedDemon again and remembered (again!) why I like FeedDemon as much as I did while I beta tested it. I just could not see paying a whole lot for a feed reader but the usability and the control is SO worth it. I found out that a whole bunch of my daily reads were not being updated anymore or had bad URIs. So I am looking for suggestions. What do you read? (I hope others can benefit from this as well)

It’s a great time to start a business I agree for the most part. I believe it has never been easier to build a great business for the web, if your intentions are to simply be profitable and please a constituency of passionate users The web economy is hot, people are willing to spend and make money on the web, there is a lot of good talent available for the right person to drive them in the right direction etc.

WP Theme: Liquid Summer A nicely laid out, expansive and professional looking theme for WordPress with a smattering of green. I like the lists on that theme. Look for their other themes as well (not free). Thanks BloggingPro