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New plugins Flickr Blog This to Draft Post will make a draft post to your blog instead of publishing via Flickr’s “Blog This” function. Ice Visual Revisions adds revision tracking to the visual editor. Minify automagically concatenates JS and CSS files that are output in wp_head() and wp_footer(). Updated plugins CloudFlare ensures your WordPress blog is running optimally on the CloudFlare platform. Jetpack supercharges your self-hosted...  

New plugins Config Constants allows you to modify WP_DEBUG and other wp-config.php constants directly in the WordPress admin rather than manually editing them. Password Protected is a very simple way to quickly password protect your WordPress site with a single password. Updated plugins Redirection allows you to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge of Apache .htaccess files. StatComm provides...  

New plugins Monster Widget provides a quick and easy method of adding all core widgets to a sidebar for testing purposes. Updated plugins Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. Yepty is yet another pay per click advertising plugin.  

New plugins Add To Post allows you to add additional content to either the start, end or both areas of your blog posts. Rewrite Rules Inspector is a straightforward WordPress admin tool for inspecting your rewrite rules. WP2Cloud seamlessly integrates with Amazon S3 to provide high availability, high reliability, quick and easy disaster recovery, and serving content in a highly scalable fashion. Updated plugins Fast Secure Contact Form lets...  

WordPress has improved greatly and one of the improved areas is the plugins section. In this guide, I will show you how to quickly locate and install plugins you need for your WordPress site.Contributor: Jasmine StarrPublished: May 16, 2012  

New plugins Ad Code Manager allows you to manage your ad codes through the WordPress admin in a safe and easy way. Updated plugins FoxyPress is a custom plugin made to integrate FoxyCart e-commerce functionality into your WordPress website. Simple Google Connect is a framework and series of sub-systems that let you add any sort of Google based functionality you like to a WordPress blog.  

Pinterest is growing at record speeds, and it can be a great place to spread your content and gain more exposure and traffic for your blog. Charnita Fance from WP Mods put together a great list of Pinterest WordPress plugins that can help with pinning and showing off pins. Here are a couple of tools that weren't included in Charnita's list that you might want to check out, too. I use the Really Simple Facebook Twitter Share Buttons plugin on...  

Over the last few years I’ve hosted 2 events here in Melbourne for bloggers. What started in 2009 as a quickly pulled together and very cramped and crowded event for 150 bloggers has grown considerable. Today tickets have gone on sale for our October Event and it is going to be big – both in [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Early Bird Tickets On Sale for Melbourne ProBlogger Event – #PBEVENT  

New plugins Simple Google Connect is a framework and series of sub-systems that let you add any sort of Google based functionality you like to a WordPress blog. WP Coming Soon adds a coming soon page with a countdown clock. Updated plugins Email Log allows you to log all emails that are sent through WordPress. Keyring provides a very hookable, completely customizable framework for connecting your WordPress site to an external service. Social...  

New plugins Sharexy is a powerful social sharing, bookmarking, and blog monetization tool. WP Social Feedback allows your users to submit feedback, view what other users have submitted and vote on other feedback submissions. WP Visited Countries allows you to easily create and publish a map of the countries you have visited and lived in. Updated plugins Bulk Delete lets you to delete posts in bulk from selected categories, tags, or custom...  

New plugins I Recommend This allows your visitors to simply recommend or like your posts instead of commenting. WP Breaking News Mail allows you to send an email to your subscribers each time a post is published in one or more categories. Updated plugins Akismet filters out your comment and track-back spam for you, so you can focus on more important things. Jetpack supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of...  

New plugins Donate Ribbon places a black “Donate” ribbon in the upper right corner of your blog with the option to set the link and link title. Rickroll changes all of your embedded YouTube videos to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Updated plugins Exploit Scanner searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual...  

New plugins Google Authenticator gives you two-factor authentication using the Google Authenticator app for Android/iPhone/Blackberry. WordPress Password Expiry expires a user’s access to the site after a specified number of days. Updated plugins Better WordPress Google XML Sitemaps is the first WordPress XML Sitemap plugin that comes with comprehensive support for Sitemapindex, Multi-site and Google News sitemap. BFT Autoresponder allows...  

New plugins HTML5 MP3 Player with Playlist allows you to easily use the HTML5 audio element to enable audio playback in most browsers, with playlists. Stop CISPA Ribbon places a black ribbon with the words “Stop CISPA” in the top right corner of your website, linking to the Stop CISPA website. Updated plugins BackWPup allows you to backup your WordPress database, files, and more. FoxyPress is a custom plugin made to integrate FoxyCart e...  

New plugins Keyring provides a very hookable, completely customizable framework for connecting your WordPress site to an external service. SuperSlider-Perpost-Code allows you to write css and javascript code directly on your post edit screen on a per post basis. ToolBar Removal allows you to completely disable the WordPress toolbar without loosing logout functionality. Updated plugins CloudFlare ensures your WordPress blog is running optimally...  

New plugins BotBlocker impedes comment spam bots without hindering users. Spotify Embed allows you to easily embed Spotify playlists, albums and tracks into your posts. WooDojo allows you to enhance your WordPress website with the WooThemes features that you need. Zuppler Online Ordering enables customers to order food online directly from you restaurant’s website. Updated plugins Fast Secure Contact Form lets your visitors send you a quick e...  

INDIANAPOLIS, March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Wiley announces the third edition of best-selling blogging book ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income, 3rd Edition (Wiley, 978-1-1181-9955-8, March 2012). ProBlogger, 3rd Edition includes two new chapters and...  

An update of one of the bestselling blogging books, written by two of the world's most successful bloggers There's a reason why the first two editions of this book have sold thousands of copies worldwide. Written by two of the world's most successful bloggers, it's one of the clearest books out there on how to earn an income from your blog. This new edition gets you up to date on the very latest changes that affect the blogging-for...  

New plugins Add to All is a powerful plugin that will allow you to add custom code or CSS to your header, footer, content, or feed. Updated plugins Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. Better Search replaces the default WordPress search with a contextual search including search results...  

Pocket Meme was made to be the last and only app you will ever use to view internet memes. Your constant source of laughter, so to speak. It has pretty much every popular meme built right in, and if you want to find a more obscure one, just search. And then pin your favorites to your start screen. Want something random? No problem, our 3D meme cube of awesomeness has you covered with an endless stream of random memes. Some features: Pin...  

New plugins Latest News Ticker lets you have a news ticker across your entire website. P2 Resolved Posts is a lightweight GTD plugin for WordPress and the P2 theme which allows you to mark a thread as “unresolved” when there’s something needing to be finished, and mark it as “resolved” when it’s been finished. Updated plugins Tallyopia Analytics provides analytics that you can embed into your site using shortcodes or view in your admin...  

New plugins Rich Text Editor For Comments replaces the regular comment textarea with a lightweight fully customizable WYSIWYG rich text editor. Ultimate Nofollow is a suite of tools that gives you complete control over the rel=nofollow tag on an individual link basis. Updated plugins Contextual Related Posts helps you increase reader retention and reduce bounce rates by displaying a set of related posts on your website or in your feed. Share...  

Okay, I think my feedburner has a life of its own. If you are on my feed - you might have noticed two old posts emailed to you recently. I did not send those. It is really odd! I have no idea why or how that happen! So dear blogging friends, have you...(read more)  

When you share your words, thoughts and photos on Blogger, you are sharing your passions with the world. Sometimes, you’re passionate about brands or products. Starting today, you can make money by promoting relevant products in your posts, gaining income for each new customer you introduce to your favorite brands.This is a new way for you to monetize your blog, giving you control over the advertisers and products you promote, and better...  

This guest post is by Timo Kiander of Productivesuperdad.com. Are you afraid that you’ll never reach blogging success? Are you working your backside off on top of your day job to produce articles, ebooks, videos, and podcasts, and learn everything about Pinterest (or any other social network for that matter)? Do you feel you are [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Blog Better by Slowing Down  

This guest post is by Karol K of ThemeFuse. Selecting a WordPress theme is one of those tasks that seem fairly easy at first How hard can it be? you ask yourself. You simply go to Google, type in “best free WordPress themes” and you’re good to go, right? I’m sure you already know where [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger How to Select the Perfect WordPress Theme for Your Blog  

This guest post is by Neil Patel of Quick Sprout. Anybody can be a content marketer … but not everyone can be a good or even great content marketer who creates articles that convert and rank high in the search engines on a consistent basis. Over time experience will teach you how to do this, but [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger 3 New Tools That Can Help You Create Better Content, Convert More Readers and Conquer Higher Search...  

This guest post is by Alexander Heyne of Milk the pigeon. You do a series of incredibly useful posts that get a great response, or you get some massive traffic spikes from guest posting, Stumbleupon, Youtube, or your content randomly going viral. Your content teaches people something useful, it’s immediately applicable, and you get tons of [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger 3 Reasons No One Comes Back to Your Blog—and How to Fix It  

This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from many, it’s research. —Attributed to Wilson Mizner (1876-1933), among others …Or you can take it a step further. If you research many, and then forge something original, your readers will take notice. And then, if you market yourself [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Build Blog Products That Sell 2: Analyze the Market and Competitors  

Yesterday, we published the second post in a series of guest posts written by author Greg McFarlane here at ProBlogger. And recently you’ll have noticed our multi-author series on generating blog comments. So today I thought it might be interesting to talk about the thinking behind trying out series, and step through some of the [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger How to Source and Host a Guest Post Series  

As promised earlier in the week, today I’ve got great pleasure in naming the winners of the Great Barrier Reef Queensland Blogger Correspondent competition. 767 bloggers entered the competition. They came from an amazing array of counties (52 in all)—from the US, UK, Germany, Australia, Spain, Malaysia, Belize, Netherlands, Canada, Singapore, Mexico, Italy, France, Brazil, [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger And the Winners Are...  

Content marketing—using content to promote our product or service—is a favorite promotion method of today’s bloggers. Many of us are in the content business, so content marketing makes sense. The activities that come under the umbrella of content marketing are broad. They cover everything from guest posting to uploading content to purpose-built networks (like YouTube [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger What Makes Good Content...  

This guest post is by Conor Powers-Smith of Factbrowser.com. Blog posts, whitepapers and other shareable content rely on supporting data—not because people just love a good color-coded pie chart (though they are pretty), but because numbers give stories shape. They add scale. They provide perspective. They quantify that something meaningful is happening. Think about it: which [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger How to Use Data to...  

Last week I excitedly announced a competition to fly 10 ProBlogger readers into the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland. The response has been amazing. We’ve had hundreds of entries and there has been some great interest in the promotion. With just under a week to go to get your entries in I thought today I [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Blogger Correspondant Great Barrier Reef Itinerary: #QldBlog  

Many of the bloggers I speak to tell me about their audiences. They know their ages, their locations, and how often they visit and comment on their blogs. But as we all know, there’s a wealth of other information that we can access about our blogs’ readers. But actually getting hold of that information, and [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Weekend Project: Get to Know Your Audience  

This guest post is by Kelly Crawford of Generation Cedar. The most important tool available to a blogger is his email subscriber list. It is the easiest and fastest way to increase sales. You probably already know that the readers who have voluntarily signed up to hear more of what you have to say are [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger If Your Email Newsletter Isn’t Generating Cash, You’re Doing Something Wrong  

WordPressers are always looking for helpful plugins for their blogs, and if you’ve been following today’s posts on ProBlogger, especially Install Your First WordPress Plugin, you’re probably in the same boat. So I thought I’d compile a lis...  

The result of this, as I will explain later, will harness all of the combined SEO benefits and push your series up in the SERP. The last, and probably most applicable, reason to publish series is when you have a lengthy subject ...  

One of the blogs that I have been a regular reader of for year about blogging is ProBlogger.  Darren Rose has been writing about blogging and social media for years and his blog, ProBlogger, offers lots of very useful ideas...  

Today on ProBlogger, we’re publishing the first in a little two-part series of posts on WordPress themes. The first is on choosing a theme, and the second is on installing themes. Now, some ProBlogger readers might wonder if professional bloggers need this kind of information. Of course there will always be pro bloggers who haven’t [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger How Do You Tailor Content to Different User Levels?  

People in the blogging and online marketing world know Darren Rowse from Problogger. Many, however, don’t realize that Problogger is an industry sideline where Darren shares what he learns from his primary business, which is the multimillion dollar web venture Digital Photography School. DPS has 500,000 subscribers, and 5,000,000 monthly site visitors. But Darren started [...]  

People in the blogging and online marketing world know Darren Rowse from Problogger. Many, however, don’t realize that Problogger is an industry sideline where Darren shares what he learns from his primary business, which is the multimillion dollar web venture Digital Photography School. DPS has 500,000 subscribers, and 5,000,000 monthly site visitors. But Darren started [...]  

Although the microblogging social network has yet to detail IPO plans, investors–who have poured a combined $1.1 billion into the company since 2006–will seek liquidity at some point. We talked with Bill Gurley, general partner at Benchmark ...  

This is a guest post by Gregory Ciotti of Sparring Mind. When it comes to blogging, a number of platforms have come and gone. Recently, Posterous was acquired by Twitter, signifying that a shut-down of the platform was imminent. I noticed this in a big way; my blog, called I Love Tumblr, which focuses on [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger How to Be a Problogger on Tumblr  

Description. Do you eat, sleep and breath anything with an engine and four wheels? We're looking for a blogger who loves anything to do with cars and is looking for a platform to share his/her passion. Ideally, we're seeking one or more ...  

Facebook’s Friday IPO will provide a test case for many tech companies, not the least of which is Twitter. Although the microblogging social network has yet to detail IPO plans, investors–who have poured a combined $1.1 billion into the ...  

Sometimes described as an "internet phenomenon," memes have been a staple to setting the standards in popular culture. Memes have been with us long before the internet became another key ingredient in today's society. Often designed for spreading original ...  

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I personally can remember (from a very early age) how my father used to emphasize the importance of health in order to make money and be successful, and it truly does make sense. This is .... Exercise. Rest. Most of all, work light. Stop straining and striving. Slow down. Relax. Calm yourself. Engage in effective, intelligent acts, so you work less but reach more members of your target audience. One of the better ways to stay healthy is to...  

Much ado was made post-Oscars about Angelina Jolie's bare leg emerging from her inky black Versace gown, spawning one of the Internet's silliest memes: Jolie-ing. The leg (right, if you must know) subsequently generated its own Twitter handle ...  

Playing off the popularity of internet memes like planking, Tebowing and even cat breading, South Park created their own internet meme in their latest episode. "Faith Hilling" entails pulling out your shirt to look like breasts in honor of ...  

For most WordPress users updating to a newer version is pretty straight forward: log into the WordPress dashboard, click on "Updates" and then select the option to update WordPress. Within 10 seconds or so you are set. Original Post: How to Upgrade WordPress via SSH  

A brand is way more than your logo and slogan. The overall style that defines you as a blogger can tell people to expect this and that from you. People tend to like what they recognize. We give trust to things that all to something familiar. If you make it easy for anybody to perceive who you are and you stick to that persona you’ll surely make a good impression in the long haul. Original Post: How To Keep Your Brand Consistency As A Blogger  

How would you feel if you found out that most people on your blog aren’t reading your post at all? You have this well-thought, killer post which you think deserves recognition from the entire civilized world and yet... people don’t read it. Original Post: How The Letter “F” Can Make You A Better Blogger  

Thai journalist Chiranuch Premchaiporn, better know by her pen name Jiew, is awaiting an April 30th court verdict that could sentence her to years in prison for violating Thailand’s draconian crackdown against free speech. Jiew’s case has focused international attention on Thailand’s lèse majesté laws, which have been used to block websites and suppress political dissent. The ruling will help clarify liability for Internet intermediaries such...  

Rep. Rogers is adamant that CISPA, the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, is cybersecurity legislation intended to help protect critical infrastructure intrusions and private and government information. But as we've written in the past, CISPA is a bill that allows for companies to spy on users, pass along the information to government agencies like the NSA, and potentially filter or block Internet traffic, which could serve...  

Yesterday, EFF and other civil liberties organizations launched a campaign to change the public discussion around the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a cybersecurity bill introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) (H.R. 3523). The bill would carve out huge exemptions to bedrock privacy law and allow companies to share private user data with the government without any judicial oversight. The...  

BEIJING — After weeks of Internet-fueled rumors suggesting fissures in the top leadership ranks, Chinese authorities struck back this weekend, closing 16 Web sites and arresting at least six people in a broad crackdown on the freewheeling world of cyberspace. Read full article >>  

When I’m coaching bloggers, one common problem that comes up is a lack of structure. During the drafting process, many writers simply sit down and type whatever comes into their head. That’s fine for a warm-up ... but it’s not a very efficient way to create a blog post. Original Post: How to Structure Your Posts (and Why You Need To)  

Palestinian Authority Communications Minister Resigns Over Internet Censorship Two weeks ago, news broke that the Palestinian Authority (PA) was blocking eight websites critical of President Mahmoud Abbas. In the wake of that news, the US Department of State expressed concern and PA Communications Minister Mashour Abu Daqa resigned, stating that the PA's Attorney General, Ahmad Al Mughni, had ordered the bans. In response, Al Mughni defended...  

Chris Dodd, Chair of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) was quoted yesterday as saying he is "confident" negotiations for a SOPA revival are taking place. While it's tempting to write off that confidence as the result of watching one too many zombie movies, it should be no surprise that the MPAA is pushing for a new backroom deal. It was just months ago that the unprecedented Internet blackout protests stopped SOPA and PIPA in...  

The FBI is at it again -- executing broad search warrants, disrupting legitimate Internet traffic, and getting nothing in return. Since the end of March, a number of anonymous bomb threats have been emailed to the University of Pittsburgh. Through its investigation, the FBI discovered the threats were being relayed through a server hosted by the progressive cooperative Internet Service Provider (ISP) May First/People Link (May First). The...  

This week the House of Representatives is debating CISPA, the dangerous ‘cybersecurity’ bill that threatens to decimate Internet users’ privacy in the name of security. EFF and a wide variety of other groups have been protesting the law’s provisions giving companies the power to read users’ emails and other communications and hand them to the government without any judicial oversight whatsoever—essentially a giant ‘cybersecurity’ exception to...  

The campaign of attacks targeting Syrian opposition activists on the Internet continues to intensify. Since the beginning of the year, Syrian opposition activists have been targeted using several Trojans, which covertly install spying software onto the infected computer, as well as phishing attacks which steal YouTube and Facebook login credentials. Since April 9th, EFF has seen at least five new phishing attacks, the aim of which is to steal...  

On April 18, the Global Network Initiative (GNI) released its annual report documenting third-party assessments conducted in 2011 and 2012 for GNI’s three founding corporate participants: Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft. GNI was formed to bring major Internet companies together with human rights organizations to improve practices around human rights, privacy and freedom of expression on the Internet. In the past year, GNI expanded to include two...  

For a while now we have been seeing rumors of a Google powered affiliate ad network. If you think about it, it makes perfect sense, as they already have the infrastructure, the publishers and the advertisers. Original Post: Google Affiliate Ads Already Working on Blogger?  

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has signed on to a joint statement with a global coalition of organizations to demand the Pakistani Ministry of Information Technology, the Information Communication Technology Research & Development Fund, and the Prime Minister, to publicly commit to stop all efforts to mandate a national Internet filtering and blocking system. As we've previously covered, the Ministry of IT together with the ICT R&D Fund...  

Facebook has been a popular place for Syrian Internet activists to share their opposition to the Assad regime ever since the site was unblocked by the Syrian government in early 2011. While some interpreted the Assad regime's decision to allow access to Facebook as a positive sign, others feared that the government had made Facebook available for the purpose of entrapping Syrian activists. In the past month, EFF has reported on several...  

More than a year after the start of the "Arab Spring," large portions of the Middle East remain in upheaval. Even in the most stable of countries, press freedom--and by extension, online freedom--remains up for debate. We've highlighted the ongoing debate in Tunisia over online filtering, and have touched on new threats to bloggers in several countries. This week it is legislative proposals in both Iraq and Lebanon that have us on alert. Iraq...  

Last week, Forbes’ Andy Greenberg investigated a dangerous but largely underreported problem in Internet security: the sale of zero-day exploits to customers not intending to fix the flaws. Zero-day exploits are hacking techniques that take advantage of software vulnerabilities that haven’t been disclosed to the developer or the public. Some companies have built successful businesses by discovering security flaws in software such as operating...  

Jason Weinstein, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice's criminal division, told a panel at the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee's "State of the Mobile Net" conference yesterday that requiring a search warrant to obtain location tracking information from cell phones  would "cripple" prosecutors and law enforcement officials. We couldn't disagree more. For years, we've been arguing that cell phone...  

There are a lot of posts written about blogging success, but perhaps not quite as many written on why blogs fail. Since I believe failure is such a great part of the entrepreneurial learning process, and you really only fail when you quit, I thought I’d write an “homage” to failure if you will. Original Post: 33 Ways to Instant Blogging Failure  

Trey Ratcliff, 40, of Austin, TX spoke to Kent State students at Cartwright Auditorium on Thursday, March 29. Ratcliff came to Kent State University as part of the Presidential Speaker Series and spoke about emerging digital media and High Dynamic Range photography. Photo by Kristin Bauer. Photographer and blogger Trey Ratcliff gave his speech “The Future of Digital Arts and Internet” in the ...  

A lot of beginner bloggers do a heavy about of sinning when they first start out... I'm not saying they're bad people, it's just that they are committing nearly all of the deadly sins that bloggers need to look out for. Original Post: The 5 Deadly Sins of Blogging (And How to Avoid Them)  

In the last few weeks, we’ve seen surprising and significant developments with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in both the US and the EU. As we’ve noted before, ACTA is a plurilateral agreement designed to broaden and extend existing intellectual property enforcement laws to the Internet. In both process and in substance, it is a deeply undemocratic initiative that has bypassed checks and balances of existing international IP...  

New Yorkers: Worried about whether you will have a right to watch local TV broadcasts on your Internet devices? Aereo is a company that lets users watch their local channels by renting a dime-sized antenna at Aereo's facility - one per customer. The signal from that antenna gets sent over the Internet to a single user. In effect, the company moves the "rabbit ears" antenna from the top of your TV set to a central facility. Aereo, like the VCR...  

Informal negotiations are underway in Chile this week on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). Up for negotiation are provisions dealing with intellectual property – including online copyright enforcement, DMCA-style digital locks, and Internet intermediary liability.   TPP countries are holding informal inter-sessional discussions this week to nudge countries closer to agreement on the controversial intellectual property provisions...  

47% of All Internet Users Experience Censorship, Says OpenNet Initiative According to the OpenNet Initiative (ONI)--a joint initiative of Harvard University, the University of Toronto and the SecDev Group--47% of the world's Internet users experience some form of fractured Internet. ONI bases their research on technical testing in 74 countries, 42 of which the researchers found engage in "some form of filtering of content." Though the...  

For most of you reading this post, it should be a lesson on how to accept guest posts on your blog. You may know how to write guest posts and might even be a successful guest blogger. But are you good enough on the other side of the table? Are you a gracious host to your guest bloggers or are you making life a living hell for them? Read on to see what frustrates me as a seasoned guest blogger myself. Original Post: The Frustrations of a Guest...  

Numerous commentators have noted the sore thumb in the group of supporters for The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA): Facebook. Why would a social network be endorsing a bill that would allow companies to pass personal information about Internet users to the government without any form of judicial oversight? A number of recent articles have discussed the issue, and already one digital rights group has launched a campaign to...  

ksl.com'Scary Mommy' blog: venting about the trials of parentingksl.comBy Josh Furlong SALT LAKE CITY — Over the past few years, "mommy blogs" have become commonplace on the web, with several giving tips ranging from parenting to photography to cooking. And one of these mommy blogs is getting a lot of attention for its ...and more »  

Houston Chronicle (blog)'The Voice:' Teams Adam, Cee Lo take the stageHouston Chronicle (blog)(Blogging, not dancing.) You should read it. Interesting night on 'The Voice.' Tonight's performances from Teams Adam Levine and Cee Lo Green weren't nearly as strong as last week's from Teams Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton.'The Voice,' Season 2, Live Performances, Week 2: TV RecapWall Street Journal (blog)The Voice Season 2 'Live Performance...  

Toronto StarBlogs, microfiction and literary voyeurism: Julie Wilson's strange obsessionsToronto StarWhen the newly minted Toronto author closed in on her prey on the subway one time, looking for clues to the woman's deep fascination with the book she was reading, the Toronto blogger and self-confessed “literary voyeur” found herself over the line.and more »  

Live blog: Oosthuizen, Watson to play it offTucson Citizenby USA TODAY feed on Apr. 08, 2012, under USA TODAY News Sunday at the Masters is looking to be a good one and Game On! will be live blogging. We've already had a double-eagle by Louis Oosthuizen and a triple-bogey by Phil Mickelson.and more »  

LIVE BLOG: Southborough Town Meeting – Day 1mysouthboroughby susan on April 9, 2012 As luck would have it, I have Internet access here at Trottier for Day 1 of Southborough's Annual Town Meeting, so I'm going to give live blogging a shot. I'll keep updating as long as the Internet holds out, so check back for ...and more »  

Live blogging 'The Voice': Live Shows night 2NBC17.com9:45 Two more performers tonight, and the next to last is 19-year-old Pip with "When You Were Young" by The Killers. 9:39 Christina said she was looking for more of Erin's aggressiveness. CeeLo also said he wants her attitude to be more "take charge.and more »  

Scientific American (blog)Introducing #SciAmBlogs bloggers: Dana HunterScientific American (blog)By Bora Zivkovic | April 9, 2012 | Every week (or so) I post a quick Q&A with one of our bloggers on the network, so you can get to know them better. This week, I chat with Dana Hunter from Rosetta Stones. Hello! Let's start with first things first.  

This guest post is by Anurag Bansal of Techacker. Owners of Wordpress.org blogs don't get the flexibility to post by ...  

I have been learning more about rss and feedburner. I want to start using feedburner but one thing I am not clear on. I am using wordpress, should I...  

If you’ve lost interest in March Madness — or you’re just ignoring your bracket due to numerous upsets — you can throw caution to the wind and place bets on Internet memes instead! In the spirit of basketball season, Memebase has been ...  

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