Written on March 31st, 2006 at 10:03 pm by Darren Rowse

Online Feed Readers Compared

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Frank Gruber has written a great review over at TechCrunch Comparing 9 Online Feed Readers. He concludes - ‘If you are looking purely for performance, Google Reader and FeedLounge are the fastest in our tests. Bloglines and Rojo are the best choice if you are looking for a feature rich application (and Rojo blows Bloglines […]

Written on March 31st, 2006 at 03:03 pm by Darren Rowse

Web 2.0 Spam

Blog News 15 comments

It seems spammers are getting a little web 2.0 in their design.
The last few days I’ve had the one below quite a few times. Large fonts, rounded corners, shiny icons…. Almost (not quite) looks like something from a collection of Web 2.0 logos.

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Written on March 31st, 2006 at 01:03 pm by Darren Rowse

Writing Blog Post Headlines That Get Results

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Copyblogger has a very useful post on Writing Headlines That Get Results that is well worth the read if you’re like most bloggers and spend a lot of time writing posts and then just slap a title on it.

‘According to some of the best copywriters of all time, you should spend half of the entire […]

Written on March 31st, 2006 at 10:03 am by Darren Rowse

WordPress Widgets

Blogging Tools and Services 6 comments

Earlier today Six Apart announced Widgets for TypePad and today Automattic announced WordPress Widgets.

They are a plugin for WP 2.0 (if you have a widget ready theme) which was previously just available on WordPress.com but now is ready to be used by WP.org bloggers.

Via LifeHacker
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Written on March 31st, 2006 at 12:03 am by Darren Rowse

TypePad introduce Widgets

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Six Apart has just announced that they’ve added a new feature to TypePad - ‘Widgets’. I’ll let them explain:

What’s a Widget, you ask? It could be a list of your most recent photos, or a topic-oriented search box, or a stats counter, or ads that help you make money, or a badge to help your […]

Written on March 30th, 2006 at 12:03 pm by Darren Rowse

Amazon Change Referral Rates - Consumer Electronics Publishers Hit Hardest

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Amazon Affiliate program members have received an email today announcing the new referral fee rates for the second quarter of 2006. There are a few significant changes.

The first is a ’simplified’ structure for link premiums. As you’ll see from the following image the commission earned has increased in each number of items shipped except for […]

Written on March 30th, 2006 at 10:03 am by Darren Rowse

Movable Type Style Generator

Blog Design 2 comments

Blog Herald just pointed to a way to get a simple template for your Movable Type blog at Movable Type Style Generator. You start the process by choosing a layout and then have the ability to adapt it by changing colors.

The layout is pretty simple and not amazing in terms of style but it will […]

Written on March 30th, 2006 at 05:03 am by Darren Rowse

Simplify your Blog Design for Mobile Viewing

Blog Design 7 comments

Regular ProBlogger reader - IO ERROR - has written a post titled Give your blog design a spring cleaning which might trigger some interesting discussion. He does so after designing a theme for his blog that can be read on a smart phone or other mobile device and realizing just how poorly designed many blogs […]

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RSS vs. Atom: What’s the Big Deal?

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Aaron Brazell is the author of Technosailor.com and is a regular guest blogger at ProBlogger.
Last month, I wrote an article here at ProBlogger in The Blogging for Beginners series introducing the concept of feeds. The article was Kick Your RSS: Jumping on the Syndication Bandwagon and it was received extremely well.
Today I want to […]