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Follow the Stream: 3 Tools for Tracking Twitter in Real Time
Social Media Twitter moves very fast. With up to three million tweets being posted every day, even a “slow” keyword can produce thousands of daily results when tracking it. Keeping on top of interesting or relevant terms can be difficult, if not impossible. Though you can subscribe to Twitter search feeds in your RSS or or track them in Tweetdeck, Twhirl and other Twitter applications, some people prefer a more real-time approach to monitoring ...
Continue readingTree Style Tabs: Keeping Tabs Together
Software & Programs There is little doubt that tabbed browsing has made Web surfing more efficient. However, when researching a blog post or even just visiting social news sites, the tab bar can become very cluttered and almost useless. However, Shimoda Hiroshi has created a new Firefox plugin that overhauls the way tabs are used and displayed. Entitled Tree Style Tabs (TST) converts the tab bar into a horizontal pane that displays tabs in a tree format. TST lets ...
Continue readingSkitch: The Mac Blogger’s Best Screenshot Tool
Software & Programs Earlier today, David Silversmith highlighted the importance of using images in your blog and using those images to convey information to the readers. However, capturing and editing images can be a time consuming task. Not only is grabbing a screenshot something of an art unto itself, manipulating it and uploading it can seem to be more trouble than it is worth.
Continue reading5 Things Bloggers Can Learn From Journalism School
Blogging There is little doubt that journalism is facing some very serious challenges. Newspapers across the country, and even the world, are facing declining readership and, in many cases, are closing down. Though the role of journalism is changing in the Internet age, that doesn’t mean there is no place for the techniques and tools that journalists use and have used for decades. Though blog writing differs greatly from journalism writing in many ...
Continue readingFraming is on The Rise and it’s Bad News
Blogging News As Kevin mentioned in his earlier post about the new DiggBar, there are a lot of reasons why Webmasters don’t want their sites placed in frames. Framing prevents viewers from viewing the full site, it alters the URL of the page, making it harder for people to bookmark the site and allows sites to sell ads against other people’s content. In addition to that, there is also the risk that they could make the content inaccessible to the ...
Continue reading5 Practical Things You Can Do with Twitter
Blogging, Making Money, Social Media Yesterday, Kevin announced the launch of Blogging Tips first WordPress plugin, Twitter User, which lets users integrate their Twitter username with their profile information in WordPress and display a link to their Twitter account in the footer of every post (or elsewhere in the template). However, many, including those who currently use Twitter, have wondered just how useful the service really is. Though there is a lot being said by ...
Continue reading5 Tools to Keep Your Email Safe from Spam
Blogging If you’re a blogger, you probably want people to be able to contact you. However, despite the rise in Twitter and other social networks, good old-fashioned email is still the most universal means of contact on the Web. The problem is that posting your email address online can result in spammers getting adding you to their databases and turning your inbox into a junk-filled cesspool. So how do you share your email address on the Web without ...
Continue readingThe Different Kinds of Hosting
Domain Names & Hosting Whether you are setting up a new blog/site or are outgrowing your current setup, finding new hosting can be a very daunting challenge. One of the biggest problems with hosting is the terminology. There are so many different kinds of hosting out there and their descriptions are not always helpful. Worse still, every kind of hosting is targeted at a different type of user and getting the wrong kind of hosting can leave you either overpaying for ...
Continue readingPutting Maps In Your Blog
Software & Programs Some times a picture truly is worth a thousand words. However, a map can be worth many times that when you’re trying to show where an event, an unusual town or any other object is. However, maps are copyrighted materials, just like any other images. Though the information isn’t, the images are. As such, just copying and pasting map images can land a blogger in trouble. Fortunately though, there are several great ways to embed a map ...
Continue reading5 Tips for Easy to Read Posts
Blogging Professional writers typically measure their output by the number of words that they write. Readers, on the other hand, have a much more abstract system for determining how “long” a post is, namely how long it feels. Much like some 3 hour movies feel much shorter, many lengthy blog posts seem to only be a fraction of their actual length. Though there is nothing wrong with writing longer posts, the lengthier your work feels, the more ...
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