Random Thougths - Blog Log

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Random Thoughts - Blog Log

Design Patterns

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Design Patterns

Hot Deals Widget from Amazon

Some of Amazon's Widget's do not display properly in Blogger.

Let's see how this one looks:

Amazon Blog Widget

Learn to Blog

It is easy to blog! For those who are not familiar, learn by reading some of these books:

IT Toolbox

This is a very interesting IT Social Networking Website.

Here is my profile:

Toolbox Profile

Toolbox Journal

PageRank

I found this interesting little widget that calculates PageRank on the fly. It say's this page is zero right now, but I look forward to seeing it expand. Here is the widget:



PageRank is calculated on the number of incoming links to your site. A site that has high PageRank can raise other web pages PageRank much more than a site with low PageRank.

PageRank is often referred to as PR in SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

I know that the PageRank calculator offered by BlogFlux is a great example of "Link Bait". People will add the calculator to their site which links back to the BlogFlux website and raises the BlogFlux PR.

Bloggers Competing With the Press

Random thoughts about the Kindle - the press always controlled what people read about. Some publishers in the past could write books, but that was not accessible to many people. Blogs allow the average person to publish their content to the world. It is easy and free. Anyone with access to a computer and the internet can become a "publisher" or blogger. This does compete with the publishing giants. Instead of a reader spending their time at US News, they may be spending their time reading blogs published by some average Joe!

BlogThis!

The BlogThis feature for Blogger allows people to create links for their website. The links offer parameters that can be sent in to specify the link, title, and content of the Blog. This will undoubtedly help raise inbound links to a website. This is a high factor in search engine rankings. The more inbound links, the higher the website will show. This is called page rank. A page that already has a lot of incoming links has more weight when linking to another page. A page with thousands of inbound links linking to a website will raise the linked to website much higher than a page with few incoming links.

Here is my BlogThis link. Just place it in the "href" of a link in the HTML source:

javascript:window.open('http://www.blogger.com/blog-this.g?u=' + escape(location.href) + '&n=' + escape(document.title), 'blogger', 'toolbar=no,width=700,height=400'); void(0);"

Web 2.0

What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 is community!

What is community?

Community is relationships!

What is relationships?

Relationships is connection!

What is connection?

Connection is how you found this blog!

The Chat Room Blogger Application!

Wow! This is actually an amazing idea! I was going to do something similar to this on my Chizat website, but never got around to it. This is a nice blogger application!


Get your own Chat Box! Go Large!

Bloglines Review

Bloglines is a great website to store your favorite blogs in RSS. It does not appear to be limited to blogs. Any RSS feed can be saved there. It is doing really good according to other undisclosed sources on the web. It is really nice how it is automatically integrated into my Firefox, so I can subscribe to an RSS feed just by visiting the RSS link on any RSS feed I stumble upon. Here is my public page if you want to check it out: Adam Cox's Bloglines Page.

Blog Flux Review

Blog Flux is a website focusing on Blogging. It is community based and offers tools for enhancing your blog. Blog Flux is a social networking web site focused around blogging. The blog directory allows submissions by blog owners. They properly check all incoming blogs and make sure they adhere to their policies. It is a great place to look for quality blogs and meet with other bloggers. The blog directory properly categorizes the blogs to allow browsers to easily find blogs that would be interesting to them.

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Xanga Weblogs

Xanga is another blogging website that is community based. It is a social-networking blogging website that has a really nice interface and very easy to use. It is not very different from any other blogging networks, but it is just as good as some of the greatest blogging websites. The biggest difference is the credits that users can earn and even purchase for money. Having credits allows you to give "mini" to others users blogs. These are little images. If someone gets a mini, they earn credits and give it to other users. This is a nifty feature that users could use to get traffic.

The prices as of now:

# $5 = 5000 credits
# $10 = 10000 credits
# $20 = 20000 credits
# $50 = 50000 credits
# $100 = 100000 credits

Users can easily give minis to other users blogs and get a link back to their blog. A mini is easier to give than a comment sometimes and they don't have to be relevant. This is the only feature that really differentiates this from any other blogging website.

View my Software Blog created on Xanga.

Blogger

Blogger

Blogger is a great blogging tool. I enjoy all of the control the user gets with such ease. I am a developer and I used to prefer building web pages from scrap, but this blog is a useful tool for quickly publishing content. The user interface is great in the management section. It is really simple to add fully functional JavaScript and XHTML. The templates are easy to change. It is really great and easy to use.

Random Thoughts - Tumblr

Tumblr is another great Blogging website. I was curious about the tools that they offer, so I created a demonstration blog on Tumblr. The blog that I created is called Random Thoughts. Please view my Tumblr Blog and feel free to add any comments or contact me with any questions. I would like to thank you for reading my blog.