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Happy Thursday! Here’s this week’s pick…

Google Threatened by Twitter?

Google Friend Connect Opens Up To Blogger

How To Get Life Out Of Old Posts

Is There Such a Thing as a Saturated Niche?

5 Ways to Make an Empty Ad Slot on Your Blog Work For You

Happy Blogging! :)

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RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feeds have become really popular in within blogging circles. Using an RSS reader, a user can read content from multiple websites/sources without having to visit the actual source.

From a blogging perspective, this means that a blogger can read all of their blogroll/blogging associates’ posts within one place without having to go to multiple sites to read them separately. This would be a big inconvenience if a blogger has a large blogroll, or a lot of blogs to read.

I have found that subscribing to my blogroll’s RSS feeds are a great way to keep updated with their happenings. If you have a medium-large amount of blogs that you want to be updated with on-the-go, I would highly recommend subscribing to their RSS feeds.

With this premise in mind, the more the blogosphere grows, everyone’s blogroll with grow with it. Will we one day get to a point where we do not actually post to a blog, but post to a place where it will automatically push the post through an RSS stream, and the post not really having a central location?

What are your thoughts on the future of RSS-related blogging?

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Provided below are this Thursday’s picks. Enjoy!

How to Develop an Efficient Post Frequency

Are You Throwing Away Readers by Posting at the Wrong Time?

SpeedBlogging: How To Write Better Posts In Less Time

Blog Optimization Is An Ongoing Process

Trend Watch: Hand-Drawn Blog Headers

Happy blogging everyone! :)

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For those of you out there who use the Twitter social-networking blogging site, I have specified some more tools that I have come across recently to enhance your Twittering experience:

  • Twellow – Want to find friends/followers near you, or that share the same interest as you? This service acts as a Twitter directory of users that are sorted by categories, and you can find users near you using this service’s TwellowHood feature.
  • Twply – Want your @replies forwarded to your e-mail? This opt in service will allow you to receive direct messages that are sent to your account also to your e-mail. This is a good service if you are a Twitterer on the go.
  • @spellingbot – Need something spelled, and don’t have any spell checking software around? Send an direct message to @spellingbot and your word in question will instantly be corrected.

Happy Blogging! :)

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Good Thursday to all! Here are this week’s picks:

Is Twitter considering charging business users?

Putting Widgets into Context

Blogging Hits Crossroads: A-Listers Giving Up

The Power of a Comment

On the Job: Blogging can be a creative outlet for the unemployed

Happy blogging everyone! :)

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If you have not found this feature yet, you may now be able to specify a post as “sticky” in WordPress. Sticky posts are for when you are wanting a post to remain at the top of your blog above all of your other posts.

This can be done when you are in the Add New Post section of the 2.7 admin panel. Under the Publish menu on the far right-hand side of the page, expand the Visibility area by clicking “Edit.” This will bring up options of how your post will be visible on your blog. Click on the “Stick this post to the front page” check box, then press “Ok,” and your post will automatically be set to be “stuck” at the top of your blog.

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