Put Bloglines to work for your WordPress blogroll

Warning: If you are not a WordPress blogger who can install your own plugins you might wish to skip this post.

Bloglines is my feed reader of choice because it’s simple and hierarchical. I’m going to show you a neat little trick I did on a wordpress blog to make a compact, organized, and best . . . → Read More: Put Bloglines to work for your WordPress blogroll

Auto tweet your blog post

An experiment with pingtwitter. I will blog about it and see if it does an auto tweet as advertised. . . . → Read More: Auto tweet your blog post

TalkR — Audio of your blog

What is it with me and Text-To-Speech? Just fond memories, I guess. At one time I had a TalkR widget in my Blogger blog. It had a list of all the posts and it would speak whichever one you picked. It must have worked at one time or I would have never published it. I . . . → Read More: TalkR — Audio of your blog

What type of personality are you?

Well there I am, summarized for all the world to see into a neat little bar graph. If you want to see how you stack up, go ahead and click the widget. It will take you to mypersonality.info where you can take the test yourself. It’s fun, fast and free and you’ll get a . . . → Read More: What type of personality are you?

Does your blog have unsavoury "friends?"

You are known by the company you keep. If your blog links to a bunch of dicey websites it could tarnish, if not ruin your reputation. Courtney Tuttle put me onto this little tool that evaluates your linkees. Check out Bad Neighborhood.

I was a little surprised to see that one of the sites I . . . → Read More: Does your blog have unsavoury "friends?"

Print your Blog!

Get the <a href=”http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/feedjournal” mce_href=”http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/feedjournal”>FeedJournal</a> widget and many other <a href=”http://www.widgetbox.com/galleryhome/” mce_href=”http://www.widgetbox.com/galleryhome/”>great free widgets</a> at <a href=”http://www.widgetbox.com” mce_href=”http://www.widgetbox.com”>Widgetbox</a>! Yes you read it right… Print your blog. Of course you could always just print the web pages, but this widget delivers my recent posts as a high res PDF, and it can do the same . . . → Read More: Print your Blog!

Geek Events In the News

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RSShugger: a clever way to get publicity

RSShugger is yet another blog directory I have found. It’s not Web 2.0 — it’s pretty old school and refreshingly simple. Hey not everything has to be a widget. Rsshugger is not huge yet but I predict they’ll grow. They request an honest review, so here it is: The usability issues I see are . . . → Read More: RSShugger: a clever way to get publicity

Twitter — the birdsong of 500 lb. canaries with bullhorns?

What is the deal with Twitter? I just don’t get it! I’m with Kathy Sierra on this one. (For those who don’t know, Kathy Sierra is one of my all-time heroes — a brilliant educator, writer and blogger who shut down last year due to misogynistic death threats. Would the bullying have been so egregious, . . . → Read More: Twitter — the birdsong of 500 lb. canaries with bullhorns?

Pimp your Blog II: Entrecard, Blogcatalog, and MyBlogLog

Sorry kids, there’s no picture in today’s post. I’ve just been playing with three blog pimping services Entrecard, Blogcatalog, and MyBloglog.

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