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Are you obsessed with watching your blog stats?
Blogging, Productivity Things Take Time (TTT) and it is one the hardest things to understand while blogging for obvious reasons. Almost all of us at some point of time have watched our blog statistics to get a minute-by-minute idea of how many visits our blog is garnering as analyzed by the various statistics plugins and Google Analytics or StatCounter. It is certainly an enjoyable exercise and one which is hard to resist given the immediate gratification it brings. ...
Continue readingOfficial Google Blogs and Blogger are full of Validation Errors
Blogger, Blogging Google and Blogger do not seem very inclined in following web standards. The official Google blogs have hundreds of validation errors (see snapshot below) which is because the Blogger template produces invalid XHTML (also read this discussion on the Blogger help group dated 2006). Those of us who are still with Blogger or plan to shift to Blogger(or Blogspot) will find the following snapshots enlightening and amusing. The first snapshot is of ...
Continue readingTwitter Sells Wine to Promote Literacy
Blogging Not many know about the Fledgling Initiative by Twitter, the micro-blogging site that everybody loves. The Fledgling Initiative is a Twitter project that makes wine for the benefit of a non-profit organization named ‘Room-to-Read‘ that extends educational opportunities for deprived children worldwide. According to the description on the website: “These wines are being made using some of the best vineyards in California by the ...
Continue readingUse LastPass for password management and peace of mind
Blogging, Productivity, Software & Programs Bloggers are people with a rich online life. Bloggers need to have an account on many sites that they use and frequent on a daily basis. The need for strong passwords is too well-known to be elaborated here. You cannot run the risk of having the same password on more than one site and what is more you should not choose simple passwords because you can easily remember them. Your blogging can be jeopardized if your login id and passwords are ...
Continue readingMatt Mullenweg’s Blog Makes You Smile
Blogging, Reader Blog Critique, WordPress WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s primary blog has many instances which will make you smile. With my below par internet connection, it takes a bit of time for Matt’s blog to load (Matt himself says the site’s spring design is for the high-bandwidth and the open-minded) but the visit is worth it. This post enumerates some interesting instances (with snapshots taken on 13 February 2010) on Matt’s PR 8 blog. The header ...
Continue readingSnapshots:10 Popular Blogs that have not updated the Copyright notice year(s)
Around The Blogosphere, Blogging Did you update the copyright year(s) in the notice in the footer of your blog or elsewhere? It is one of the must-do exercise for bloggers and webmasters if you care about professionalism. If your theme doesn’t do it automatically and have not updated it and are looking for tips on how to do then you can read this post on dot com mogul John Chow or this post by Ajith. The following snapshots are taken from various reputed blogs and ...
Continue reading8 Google Valentine’s Day logos from the past
Internet News Google logos have become very popular and netizens and bloggers look forward to Google logos and creativity on special occasions. Google logos are great ways to celebrate special occasions and commemorate special days. ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ as they say. Google logos and doodles graphically drive the message home. Saint Valentine’s Day is just round the corner and it would be fun revisiting the Google (global) ...
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