We all know and love blogcatalog but as all things social they need new members. Despite being the most used social blog directory on the net it still needs new blood to keep it flowing. We must all know of at least another couple of bloggers who may not know about it and could use the help the forums provide or could do with having their blog listed in the directory so we all can see it. What I am proposing is a few things. 1: Blog about Blogcatalog on the 15th of August 2: Invite at least 1 person you know who blogs and get them to check out blogcatalog 3: If you let me know who the Read The Rest

As a little gift for everyone I am releasing my blogcatalog book for free, how long it will remain free I dont know. But if you do like it please consider buying it using the links on the right to my lulu store. You can get it in paperback or redownload the ebook that is linked below. For an example of what you get check out this post. Blogcatalog Example over 100 pages on all aspects of blogcatalog. Download Blogcatalog Help Book Share This Read The Rest

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Must Reads A List Apart Digital Web Meyer Web Web Standards Clag Nut Mezzo Blue Sitepoint Style Gala Blogging Tools Wordpress Typepad MSN Spaces Moveable Type Yahoo 360 Blogger Colour Your Blog Colour Palette Colour Palette Generator 100 Random Colours Simulate a web page with upto 5 colours Get colour codes by copy and paste Patterned backgrounds More background Read The Rest

The field of “human-powered” search engines already seems to be too crowded with Mahalo, Wikia Search, Sproose, and ChaCha (which has now decided to focus on the mobile search frontier). All of these, however, still use bots, algorithms or a staff in one way or another in order to function as desired. Stumpedia, on the other hand, claims to be “human-powered” and actually seems to be the only such engine to be completely at the will of its users. It’s homepage states that this is a ”social search engine that relies on human participation to index, Read The Rest

A CHILD aged SIX had to be treated in casualty for a drink-related illness. The primary school pupil was one of 175 underage drinkers admitted to just one hospital last year for booze problems. The shocking figures emerged yesterday in a study of young drinkers in Hull, East Yorks. Almost 80 per cent of under18s in the city believed they drank too often. A fifth of its under25s were found to be borderline alcoholics. The 175 kids needing treatment were recorded at the Hull Royal Infirmary. Wendy Richardson, Hull’s director of public health, said of the figures: “I’m shocked, as Read The Rest

Introducing My Ebook. Almost ready for you to use For now you can order the Ebook at a reduced price. You can also become an affiliate and sell the ebook however you like, while earning at the same time. What do you get for your money. Learn how to Influence Members without them knowing Build up a massive following Having 3000 members ready to read what you write at the touch of a button Building up large groups Making a name for yourself Influence your other social networks without leaving Blogcatalog Win Competitions through Blogcatalog Getting Massive Stumbleupon Traffic High Alexa Read The Rest

Most of us have been there and ask ourselves how much we should charge for advertising. So using the following you should be able to work out how much to charge. Please don’t take this as stone clad and just as a rough guide. What We Use To Work It Out We will use the following. Google Page Rank Unique Visitors a Day Alexa Rank Hits (Total page views a day) I know alexa isn’t that good but its what a lot of advertisers use. We shall base this of my users today. So I have had 313 uniques Page Rank of 0 Total Views 612 Alexa 98,818 To start we will add total views and unique Read The Rest

Ive always been a fan of optical illusions and how they work, you will find quite a few on this page, which is your favourite. The original can be found here On the next one Stare at the dots in the middle for a few seconds, then stare at a wall and blink your eyes really fast, what can you see. The original is here The next is a man and a bottle the original can be found here What about still images that appear to move Stare at the next images cross for about a minute and see what happens Share This Read The Rest

Heres a fun site Ive found, the object of the game is to write words by moving the fridge magnets around the board, but there is only a limited amount of letters on the board. The biggest problem is there is other players who have great joy in taking your letters to make their own words. Heres a challenge for you, try to spell your sites name before someone snatches your letters. The site can be found here Share This Read The Rest