Daniel Scocco, owner of the well-written DailyBlogTips blog - one of my faves for several months now - has been running a Blogger Faceoff series. In each faceoff, he profiles two bloggers that are closely matched in either niche, approach, or work. Today (Tuesday), he picked the accomplished Muhammad Saleem (who writes for Pronet Advertising […]

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Here are a few places to check out various WordPress themes.
Brian Gardner: Revolultion Theme

Brian Gardner’s done it again: come out with a hot WordPress theme, Revolution. This is one of the crispest themes I’ve seen. Now while Brian gives away many free themes, this is not one of them, and I don’t blame him. This […]

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Some interesting tidbits about blogging, writing, content and social networks.

Handling blog comments.
Tim Ferriss, author of the 4-Hour Work Week, offers 7 commandments of blogosphere self-defense. I.e., very practical advice for how to handle negative comments.

Copyriting tips: be odd.
Here’s a quick tip: odd numbers seem to be more effective in marketing. My own experience with linkbaiting […]

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Technophile is my irregular commentary on various technology and web tools of use to freelancers, bloggers and net professionals.

Giant portable hard drives.
One of the problems of being mobile is that if you take a laptop, you’re very limited in disk storage. Maybe you’re using lots of online applications, but sometimes you want to store content […]

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With all the interest in payment per post services, it’s not surprising that there are variations. Helium, whose “We Need You To Write” Google AdSense ads are everywhere, has been accumulating a large base of articles by unpaid writers. Each writer gets their own blog, and their AdSense ads are displayed.
If you don’t drive traffic […]

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Not sure what’s more popular: images or blog text, but images are definitely a nice addition to blogs. So if you’re considering a camera but don’t want the 21 megapixels of resolution of the new Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III digital SLR, maybe you’d prefer the 12.3 effective megapixels of the Nikon D300 professional DSLR. It’s […]

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Scooped!! CollegeDegree.com (what a great domain name - probably worth millions some day) has a very big list of resources for mindmapping. I’ve been working on a big mindmap review myself but its scope keeps growing out of control. So much for my approach to GTD (Get Things Done). Mine will be an indepth review […]

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What are the three most important tools for online Freelancers and Net Professionals, aka Web Workers? I’d have to say a computer, Internet access, and possibly a cell phone if you are often mobile - in which case you’d want a powerful laptop. If you’re not mobile, you might want to skip a cell phone […]

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Do you know the difference between Lindsay Lohan and Lindsay Buckingham? The difference between Britney Spears and Britt Eklund? Jessica Simpson and Jessica Rabbit? Wilmer Valderrama and Wilma Flintstone? (Okay, you get the idea.)
The celebrity gossip niche is super hot. Somewhere online I read that the Lindsay Lohan blogger at b5media earns US$50+K/yr. That implies […]

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When you’re feeling a bit of writer’s block, one thing you can always try is to change your perspective. If you take that advice literally, then you could grab your camera and start clicking.
No camera? Got $8,000? It’ll buy you a sexy new Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III digital camera - not to be confused with […]

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These days, it seems that everybody and their dog blog has a jobs board. The latest is probably Mashable’s Market, which has more than just jobs and is worth checking out (domains, sites, jobs available + wanted). I also registered a domain, newnetjobs.com, before I knew of the Mashable board. But I’m not sure we […]

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Without Internet access, online workers are, to put it bluntly, screwed. You could use a typewriter to write with and snail mail, but obviously that’s not going to cut it for long. Let’s face it, Internet access is an absolute necessity for some people. And without broadband speeds, your work productivity goes down.
If you live […]

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Blog Carnivals can be an ideal way for a new blogger to network with other bloggers in their niche, to build links, get traffic, and generally gain exposure. Some people think it’s cheesy, and it sort of is if you keep doing it once your blog reaches critical mass. But early on in your blog’s […]

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After trying many different ways to gather information to blog about, for the past two years, I’m trying something different yet again for the past month or so. It’s a combination of regular web surfing, using meme trackers such as Techmeme and Megite, social media such as DailyHub, Digg and Sphinn, or mashups such as […]

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