- Wanted: Thinking Writers, ilker over at The Thinking Blog is on the look out for guest writers, and about the only proviso is that submissions be “thinking” articles! I’m not the greatest fan of guest blogging, but this may be something to think (no pun intended…) about.
- Google search rank drop: advice needed, this is something bloggers who sell advertising spots on their blogs, or those considering doing so, should read. Scottish blogger and designer David Airey saw his Google search ranking drop recently and feels it was because he was posting paid links. The practice isn’t entirely a no no though as David explains…
- Reverence: is the name for the brand new Wordpress theme from Anthony at Antbag.
- Guide to Frugal Living: from the Tutorial Blog. “Most people think that frugal individuals are simply tightwads who will not spend their money at all, on anything. This, of course, is not true. Frugal people have learned how to control their money by limiting spending on unnecessary or spontaneous purchases.”
- Thanks to The Guru’s Movie Review Carnival and the Anything Goes & General News Carnival for including a couple of my posts in their recent blog carnivals.
- Superbad: there’s plenty of five or ten step “how to” articles about the blogosphere, but this has to be the first “how to properly steal the design of a website” in five steps post that I’ve ever seen. From Airbag of course…
- The Importance of Deadlines: by Chris Campbell. Another worthwhile read. Sometimes the best way to get things done is to set self imposed, tight, deadlines. Anything with a “do it whenever” sort of deadline seems to get continually put off, whereas a “do it by noon tomorrow” requirement is more likely to see a task accomplished a little sooner!
- Chameleon16: is the latest font set to be unveiled by Dan at SimpleBits.
- Why we need standards support in HTML email: the battle of the browser may have been won when it comes to web standards, but standards support for HTML email is seriously lagging, says David Greiner of Campaign Monitor.
- Australia jumps 11 spots on iPod index: another reason for overseas readers to make Australia their next holiday destination… Prices for the 4GB Ipod nano are among the best in the world, costing $US175.42 compared with say Brazil where the cost is $US369.61! Hong Kong offers the best price though at $US148.12. Interestingly, this price research was carried by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia… don’t these people have anything else to do? ;)
Links for 6 October 2007
Posted by John Lampard on Saturday, 6 October, 2007 to the disassociated subset
After nearly 2 mths on holiday the frugal living article is staple reading around here :))
My PR6 just dropped to a PR5 after years. Not sure why myself.
@ Mandi - erm, I think holidays are over :(
@ Macewan - there’s a bit of that happening at the moment. I’ll send you a link to an article that mentions another case of that.