10 Tips for Attracting More Comments Lets see if you can identify the places in that article where he employs his tips to promote comments.

WP Theme: Ginseng Coffee I like the coffee color scheme of this two column, rounded edge theme for WordPress. There used to be an old theme with similar color tones (I cannot remember the name of it).

Designer AdSense Ads Darren has noticed adsense ads with some unique styling. I am not convinced that this would increase revenue but it sure makes the ads look a lot nicer on the page. I REALLY like the way Plan59 did their ads at the bottom of the page.

QuickStart Rails: I have been looking into Ruby quite a bit recently (I really miss having an editor like TextMate on Windows) and by some quirk of programming this article of Shanti’s from back in November showed up on my reader this morning. Pretty cool.

Paint.NET: Windows Gimp alternative (almost) Professional photo editing suite for Windows. Free download and worth every byte.

WP Theme: Internet Jobs Nice looking, edge to edge, straightforward two column theme for WordPress from Sreejith [EDITED].

Six tips on Blogging right This is an excerpt from Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s book on blogging. Nothing eye opening but some good 100 mile high pointers on what to get right before and after starting to blog. I believe this is directed more at the corporate blogger.

Record me a message So I get the urge to try out Odeo, but more importantly, Odeo gives me the chance to have the (possibly) the first voice commenting system. Now all I have to do is figure out how to put the podcast for my messages into this post from Odeo. Click here to leave a voice message for me (possibly to be broadcast over the web, so be kind)