Download CSI Episodes
8/12/2008 | external link
Have you
missed the latest season of CSI or looking for its particular episode (For
instance, ?Fight or Flight?) or want CSI DVD of particular shows or you are
not able to compete with your friends when they say they know everything
about CSI?read more
18 Wonderful Essays to Help You Business at Home
8/12/2008 | external link
It never ceases to amaze me to see the quality of expertise from the
readers of this site. You all really blow me away! I'm pleased to
present 18 business and life balance How-To's ?crowdsourced' from our
reader community. These are extremely well written, in-depth articles
that could stand alone as 'special reports' or even mini ebooks in some
cases!
Help with Getting Started Working from Homeread more
What Makes Someone Leave Your Website?
8/12/2008 | external link
Part of having a successful website is attracting visitors. Keeping
those visitors on your site, however, is another topic altogether. Of
course, once you have the visitor on your site you'll want to keep them
around for a while rather than seeing them quickly leaving to go
somewhere else.
In order to do a good job of retaining visitors, increasing
pageviews and time on the site, it's important to think about what
could cause visitors to leave. By knowing some of the major reasons
that people are leaving your site, you can make adjustments to improve
this situation.
Here is a look at 16 common reasons for exiting visitors. If you
have other factors in mind that I've left off of this list, feel free
to leave a comment.read more
RSS Feeds Monetization Tools: A Mini-Guide
8/12/2008 | external link
RSS feeds are a popular data format used for serving users frequently updated content and they offer great opportunities to publishers who are looking for alternative systems to generate revenue from their original content.
With the growing popularity of RSS feed-based syndication, many Internet publishers became concerned that subscribers to their RSS feeds would not be be exposed anymore to the advertising on their web pages, as some readers could now read all of their content inside their RSS reader. In this light, some decided to publish only a short part of their articles in their RSS feeds so that those interested would click through to their site to read the rest of the content.read more
I Want Your RSS Feed, Again!
8/12/2008 | external link
I did this out of concern that my news sources would consist of
nothing but "A-listers" and I'd miss out on the insights of those that
wrote fantastic posts, but hadn't yet found the spotlight.
It's time to do it again!
Here's how it works. You leave your RSS feed URL in
the comments below (no other links please, just the RSS feed). I'll
subscribe to the first 100 and will continue to do so for the next two
weeks. After the two weeks are up, I'll keep subscribing to anyone that
really added value to my daily reading.
Sound like a deal?
Here's who I'm still subscribed to, after last year's request:read more
Blog Platforms - Poll Results
8/12/2008 | external link
As I said I'd do last week I've closed the latest Poll of the Week off
because it was beginning to take over my sidebar. I found the results
quite interesting. The question asked:
What Blog Platform Do You Use Most?
The results had a few surprises for me. While I was expecting a
large showing for WordPress (around 37% of the 1000 respondents) I was
intruiged by the large number of ProBlogger readers using the free
hosted Blogger.com platform (22.2% - or 222 readers). This figure was
almost triple the number of Movable Type Bloggers. Another surprise to
me was the large numbers of Blog platforms that I'd never heard of
before. By the end of the poll there were 49 options. Thirdly I was
interested that 2% of those taking part use some sort of ?custom made'
blog platform (sometimes even hand coded).read more
The Business Blogging Toolset: 100 Resources for Entrepreneur-Writers
8/12/2008 | external link
In the past few years, blogs have become a big part of business on the internet. Everything from anthropomorphized cats
to celebrity gossip can bring millions of visitors and a steady stream
of revenue. It can be hard to figure of where to start with your own
money-making blog, but we've tried to make it a little easier by
condensing the essential resources you'll need to start blogging
profitably into this list. Check out these sources to get started
right.
Blogging Platforms
The internet is chock full of sites that can provide a platform for
your blog. There are advantages and disadvantages to all of them, so research carefully before deciding which will work best for you:read more
35 Ways to Stream Your Life
8/12/2008 | external link
It's
a pretty good bet that if you're not making a Twitter or Facebook
application, you're probably making a lifestreaming application. Okay,
so not everyone is into lifestreaming, but it is one of the hottest
areas for development out there, and there are an overwhelming amount
of services offering a way to aggregate all the little bits of your
online life (which, for the purpose of this post, is the definition of
lifestreaming that we'll use). Richard MacManus wrote an excellent primer
on lifestreaming in January, but we touched on just 5 such services.
The purpose of this post, rather than to review, is to just list the
various options out there.
Lifestreaming apps generally fall into two categories: those that
help you keep track of and display your own lifestream and those that
help you keep track of your friend's lifestreams (or both). For the
sake of clarity, we've focused mainly on the former for this list:read more
Online Video for the Very Young
8/12/2008 | external link
It's no secret that YouTube's age demographics skew young, but young still means 18-34, and much of the content on the site would be inappropriate for children under the age of 13 -- the COPPA cut off age that YouTube adheres to as the minimum allowed for anyone to sign up on the site. Totlol is a new video site that launched in beta this week aimed at children aged 6 months to 6 years. The site is community moderated to ensure that video content is always appropriate for small children.
When I first read "community moderated video site for kids under 6 years of age," my immediate reaction was, "bad idea." Community moderation, after all, isn't foolproof and before the community has time to react, often bad stuff slips through. But Totlol is set up in a way that parents are able to screen and weed out bad videos before they reach the eyes of their children.read more
Convert a Drupal Site to Wordpress
8/12/2008 | external link
Drupal 5.x. I recently decided that it was time to convert the site to Wordpress 2.5.x.
The reason being that I was really using the site more like a blog than
anything else, and although Drupal is a great piece of CMS, it is
really not that great out of the box as a blog. Wordpress on the other
hand?.well it is awesome. There are not that many world class bloggers
out there that use anything but, and there is a reason for that.read more




