Monday · Popularity: 48% · stars
This is my normal weekend link love list from my starred items in my rss feed reader. There were way to many to list this week but a few stood out and I have them listed below. Thanks for a good week of reading to those below.
There were to many to dial it down to 10, so here are the top 15 for you.
Top 10 15 Stars of the Week, April 29 - May 5
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Vandelay Website Design by Vandelay Design on 4/28/08
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Online Marketing Blog by Lee Odden on 4/29/08 Online Marketing Blog manages a list of over 500 search marketing blogs called the
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Blogging Experiment by Max Davis on 4/29/08 Ah, how great it must be to be a make money “guru”, right?
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Monday · Popularity: 49% · stars
I am going to try to get back to doing this post once a week like I use to do, but for now, here is the latest version of this past weeks starred items from my Google Reader. A complete list is shown on the sidebar to the far right, but these are some posts from the previous week that caught my eye.
It is really amazing how many quality blogs there are now. I now have 686 feeds in my reader. Yes, not all are quite the premium material, but with so many good articles to choose from it is hard to narrow it down to 10, but, here they are.
Top 10 Stars of the week of April 21st
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Monday · Popularity: 56% · stars
Here are my top 10 stars of last week. For those who are new to reading this blog, this is a post I normally do on a weekly basis that I haven’t done in a while so I thought I would bring it back this week. Each week as I go through my rss reader I start several articles for future reading. I try to make this list a quick recap of the previous week’s posts from various sources around the Internet. Not always blog posts, but most of the time they are articles written by other bloggers.
I have approximately 700 feeds that I go through each week, and as always, there were some excellent articles written last week. Below you will find a few that stood out to me.
Top 10 Stars of the week of Mar 24 to Mar 31
via Blogging Experiment by Max Davis on 3/28/08
Hey there, this is Max Davis. I’m sure you’ve heard by now that Ben has sold his amazing website and many of you are interested to see what is going to happen next.
via Andy Beard - Niche Marketing by Andy Beard on 2/18/08
There is nothing wrong with having strong, even biased opinion about a product or service, as long as you provide a basis for that
via Vandelay Website Design by Vandelay Design on 3/26/08
Earlier this week I posted a group interview with several established and successful designers. One of the questions that was asked to each participant was “What do you feel are the most important skills
via Blogging Tips by kelbycarr on 3/25/08
If you have a blog, odds are good you’d like to bring in a few bucks. There are actually several options for doing this, but not all will work
via Freelance Folder by Ram Karthik on 3/27/08
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with writing only on a handful of topics, but what if a client asks you to write on a topic you know nothing (or very little) about? Can you afford to turn down work?
via Technosailor by Aaron Brazell on 3/18/08
WordPress is about to release version 2.5 into the wild (It just hit Release Candidate yesterday so the release date, though officially
via Freelance Folder by Keith Johnson on 3/30/08
As a Technical Writer, I have had to interview hundreds of computer professionals to better understand the technology that I would be documenting. Programmers, Quality Assurance, Implementation,
via Blogging Tips by John Leschinski on 3/29/08
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via ProBlogger Blog Tips by Darren Rowse on 3/29/08
“Hi Darren, I’ve got a website at www._____.com which I’ve had for a few years and not really done much with. I’ve heard that blogs are a good way of building traffic and making money, should I change it to a blog?”
via Technosailor by Aaron Brazell on 3/18/08
WordPress is about to release version 2.5 into the wild (It just hit Release Candidate yesterday so the release date, though officially not known, is coming soon). If you’ve been using WordPress.com or have peeked at the demo site you will know the biggest change coming to WordPress with this release.
Monday · Popularity: 31% · stars
This was a busy week for me and I didn’t get much posting done but my reader subscriptions were busy as ever. Looks like my feeds to a big jump this week to 498 feeds, but there were several added that were in a specific niche market for a website I am developing.
If you are not familiar with this list, each Monday morning I create a list of the top 15 posts from my reader from last week. You can see the entire list from the footer in the center where it says “starred items”. I am going to get right to the list since there were so many good articles posted last week.
Top 15 21 Stars of the week of Nov 26th to Dec 3rd
via Copyblogger by Brian Clark on 11/26/07
When it comes to the things that keep us from writing, you’ll see the usual villains pop up. Lack of time is a big one, as are the various other life distractions that take us away from the keyboard.
via Vandelay Website Design by Vandelay Design on 11/26/07
Many bloggers either own multiple blogs or they write for others as well as their own. Those who aren’t writing for other blogs are missing out on a great opportunity to gain exposure and network with influential bloggers. For a few months I was posting 5-6 times per
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Monday · Popularity: 52% · stars
I hope everyone had a wonderful week last week, it was certainly one of the more quiet weeks online since many of the U.S. blog writers were on vacation or just taking a little bit of a break.
I took a little bit of a break, on the computer anyway, and did a whole lot of outside “work” over the week, along with watching the multitude of football games that were played over the later half of the week.
Week In Review
There were several Thanksgiving day posts on various topics and I also tried to post something with a little meat to it about thinking globally, Thanksgiving is a U.S. Holiday, Think Global, which I think all of us, especially here in the U.S., should keep in mind when operating on the Internet where articles don’t see political borders.
There was still the musings on the Google PageRank, I guess that is here to stay, but there were also several news stories that came out of eBay, Overstock, and many of the online retailers in preparation for black Friday. I don’t normally star these items since they are very visible by all, but I have put some of them on the share list (see bottom left of the footer). There was still a great list of high quality articles I have listed below.
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