If you like stumbleupon for discovering websites and blogs, you are gonna love stumbleaudio for discovering new artists and tracks. Warning: it is a flash site but the interface is well-done and intuitive.
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überblog geek life, humour, insights, and meta stuff
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Listen to this post AideRSS — a reader that filters for you
I use bloglines to monitor blogs. I like a lot of blogs and even just browsing my subscriptions I can’t keep up with all of ‘em. Enter AideRSS. It makes some decisions for you about how “good” the blog posts are and filters out the ones that it doesn’t think ard up to snuff.
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HubPages: A paying outlet for your verbal diarrhea
Want to know a little secret about bloggers? We bloggers all have a bad case of verbal diarrhea! We just can’t stop spouting off and we all like an audience. Since we’re all doomed to suffer from this malady, we might as well get paid something while we suffer from it.
The downside to blogging
The way most blogging software arranges the posts in reverse chronological order guarantees that only your most recent post will get much attention. Sure, visitors are free to break it out by category or to search for a particular topic, but the fact remains that most visitors see the home page when following a root link to a blog.
Listen to this post Entrecard gives bloggers all the comments they could ask for!
Disclosure: this post is being written as an entry in this EntreCard contest.
Entrecard has set up some kind of a partnership with SezWho to encourage organic comments. According to the post on the Entrecard blog,
When you can take a quality blog that isn’t receiving any comments, and give them 10 or 20 high-quality comments per post… that’s revolutionary in our opinion.
Listen to this post I want you on my LAN
I wrote these lyrics to the tune of “I wanna hold your hand” by the Beatles, with all due credit to them. The purpose was to teach a class of bright youngsters how Ethernet networking works at the hardware level. I thought that my hot dorkage readers might enjoy them. It’s all as true now as it ever was. And in case you don’t understand some of the terminology, it’s all broken down for you at the end.
And in case you’re too young to remember the Beatles (even though they keep popping up on oldies stations) Below see a recording of it for you to listen to. Notice that you have to click to play it. I would never inflict it on you.
Listen to this post Free link juice in a blogalicious flavor
If your blog is 100% nutritious lean tech protein, it seems as dry and flavorless as a digital camera manual. Besides, any cook knows that the flavor is in the fat. Not useful but people like it better. That’s the lesson I have been learning lately but I hadn’t taken any action yet. Even so, for some unknown reason Hot Dorkage seems to lighting up the boards with social action this week. First I get reviewed, then I get tagged. This social stuff is all new to me as a participant. Like most geeks I just used Google to search for technical info. When I hit paydirt I said thank you and I stumbled it or dugg it if I really found it useful. But never social memes until today.
Listen to this post Hot Dorkage gets reviewed
Woot! Social action!!! Hot Dorkage got reviewed on pisiosplugs. and on Today’s Blog Reviews I won’t quote the reviews, that’s what links are for. I will say that I think Pisio is spot-on with his review, and so is Shen. I’m very happy to be reviewed. If truth be told I’d be happy even if they hated me, because there is no such thing as bad publicity if all you’re looking for is publicity.
If you would like your blog reviewed, either one of them just might do it for you, as long as they don’t find your blog offensive. Neither queue is outrageously long at the moment but I’d suggest that you submit your request as soon as possible, because I have a feeling that pisiosplugs and Today’s Blog Reviews will become very popular sites.
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Lolcatese — u lerns it or eatz mai dust sucka
Lolcatese — is it becoming the new internet pidgin? Perhaps first exclusively written language? Lolcatese is named after the acronym LOL, which is Textese for “laughing out loud.” Textese is a thing distinct from Lolcatese. The purpose of Textese is to transmit the message with the fewest number of keystrokes. Lolcatese and Textese have similar ancestry, but Lolcatese seems to be evolving into a separate language all its own, complete with grammar and spelling conventions, and even pronunciation hints, although Lolcatese is primarily a written language. I’m not sure where the “cat” part comes in.
Listen to this post From the road
Totally non dorkage again today. Photos so far, as promised. A selection from the Columbia Gorge, the Mt. Hood area, and the North Oregon coast. Tomorrow Mexico! The Mexico pix will start appearing in the dynamic Flickr widget as we take ‘em.
Dang! The little badge didn’t work. It works for everybody else except me. No time to debug now. Well here is the link to my flickr photo stream then, not quite as cool but you can see them.
MY FLICKR STREAM
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