Anyone who tweets or sends URL’s in emails likes short URL’s for different reasons. Twitter users like ’em because of the 140 char limit for tweets. You don’t want to use all 140 chars allocation on some hairy ugly URL–you also need a few to hint what it IS! Programmatic email senders like ’em because . . . → Read More: TinyURL API
 8 comments - (Comments are closed)  Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security  API, automate, crunch, curl, email client, Exception, function, GET, getTinyUrl, hairy ugly URL, line, link, linkedin, multi-line links in email, PHP, POST, query string, support, third party, TinyURL, TinyURL API, toolbar, toolbar button, trivial api, twitter Feedburner will create an animated banner that cycles through the five most recent items on any RSS feed. I used it to create an IAB standard 468×60 banner promoting my tweets. There are excrutiatingly detailed instructions with screendumps over on my companion hub at hubpages (let them host the frakkin’ screendumps) but in a nutshell: . . . → Read More: Use feedburner to promote your blog graphically 8 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff 468x60 banner, animated banner, animation, blog, blogging, Burn, Configure, create, exposure, feed, feedburner, headline animator, hub, IAB, leverage, linkedin, login, marketing, microblog, publicity, recent items, rss, syndication, tweet, twitter, xml Since July I have been dropping way way less Entrecards. I made it a point to only drop on sites I was visiting for some other reason, (like I was really interested in the post) which meant I stuck around long enough to not be counted as a bouncer. What did it do? Well admittedly, . . . → Read More: I quit EC dropping and my bounce rate went down 11 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies advertising, advertising price, back scratching, bounce rate, chaindropping, circle jerk, depression, dropper, drops, entrecard, ethics, nonsense, penalize, powerdropping, signal to noise ratio, stumble, stumble club, throttle, traffic, vapid DORK 4 PREZ The other day I got to thinking, why shouldn’t I be the President? Maybe I could be president of the blogosphere….. OK….. Since I’m now a politician I have act like one and promise you GREAT things. Your weenie will grow so big you’ll have to coil it up like a . . . → Read More: Win 2000 EC: Elect Dork President of the Blogosphere 16 comments - (Comments are closed) contest, Fun Web and Blog Goodies bloggers, blogosphere, bribe, campaign, contest, dork4prez, eldercare, Elect, election, grass roots, imagechef, meme, president, social, social meme, viral, vote, voting, voting script The dork is featured again in Issue #4 (August 1) of Information Security Short Takes that I was in last month. This blog features a monthly blog carnival potpourri webzine of useful selection of security related articles. I know, I know, nobody wants to hear about security. It’s boring as all get out, and . . . → Read More: Security Articles Growing a Tail! 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Hacking and Security article syndication, blog carnival, consequences, crack, credit card, hack, identity, identity theft, info security, linkedin, nightmare, security, security articles, tail, webzine 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. . . . → Read More: StumbleAudio: a great way to discover new tracks 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Multimedia, Uncategorized art, artist, attraction, audio, background music, beat, cover art, crap, deal breaker, download, flash, genre, genres, hack, instrumentalists, junk, junk food, Latin, linkedin, music, niche, play, pulp, pulp fiction, ream, schlock, schlocky, singers, spanish rap, stumbleaudio, stumbleupon, track, trite, untalented, visual describes aiderss, a rss reader with filtering . . . → Read More: AideRSS — a reader that filters for you 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies agent, aiderss, automation, Bloglines, crawl, feed filter, feed reader, geeky, google, linkedin, metablog, opml, overall score, some heavy hitters, threshhold, twitter, video tutorial . . . → Read More: Wanna see what a dork looks like? 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Uncategorized art, beanie, comics, humor, mirror image, model, pikistrips, propeller, visual 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 . . . → Read More: HubPages: A paying outlet for your verbal diarrhea 20 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Monetizing, Multimedia Amazon, article, audience, chronological, diarrhea, direct search, downside, ebay, editorial approval, experiment, google adsense, HTML, hub, HubPages, kontera, lens, leverage, linkedin, Monetizing, outbound links, publicity, referrals, revenue, search engine, search engine traffic, Seth Godin, shelf life, Squidoo, standalone, tracking, writing, wysiwyg editor |
Entrecard gives bloggers all the comments they could ask for!
Dorkage’s response to Entrecard’s partnership deal with SezWho . . . → Read More: Entrecard gives bloggers all the comments they could ask for!