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I fall prey to twitter mania, I’ve been watching from quite some time every one tweeting tweets at twitter. Problogger Darren Rowse advocate the use of this valuable service and can’t resist being additive to it, he is so obsessed with this new phenomenon that he has dedicated one blogging site of his giving twitter [...]

Let’s get down and discuss some stats about blogging. Statistics published by Technorati were interesting and encouraging for bloggers. Good news, blogsphere has maximum readership. Look at the figures.
comScore MediaMetrix (Aug. 2008)

Blogs: 77.7 million unique visitors in the US
Facebook: 41.0 million
MySpace 75.1 million
Total [...]

Today is Blog Action Day; thousands of bloggers unite to discuss a single issue - poverty. Aim to raise awareness, initiate action and to shake the web!
If I talk about my country India, one-third of population lives below the poverty line and India is home to one-third of the world’s poor people. Efforts to alleviate [...]

No matter for what purpose and how you would like to use it but I believe Twitter Search is a pretty cool interesting tool.
I know it’s a great idea to have something through which we can see exactly whats the whole world is taking about a particular search term. It helps you find out what’s [...]

If we have to believe on guys at 1938 Media then web 2.0 has been over. It was on TechCrunch, Om Malik at GigaOm is determined that Silicon Valley is going to weather the global economic storm without being impacted.
Many blogger think that the present financial crises will swallow Web 2.0, is that true guys? [...]

One of the important criteria on which Google Ranks websites is Domain Age.  That mean if a website has a shorten expiration period then Google may treat it as a site created for spamming purpose. The reason for this is that many spam sites are often registered for short periods of time.
Domain registration for two [...]

Johns Wu, a 22 year old guy from San Marino, CA is really a fortunate guy, manage to sell his two year old WordPress powered blog Bankaholic to a financial info site BankRate for huge US$ 15 Million.

BankRate will pay $12.4 million up front, with another $2.5 million possible earn out over the next 12 [...]

Enough of fighting with WordPress Upgrades every other month. Our new WordPress 2.7 will have this new feature which will allow us to upgrade every WordPress upgrade afterwards automatically within our admin panel.
What is New “Crazyhorse” WordPress Administration Panel?
According to The Blog Herald:

The new “crazyhorse” WordPress Administration Panels interface, a new Write Post Panel that [...]

My daily eight hour job requires hard work on computer; back home six hours blogging also call for a fight with my newly purchased HP Presario laptop, the result was expected and pretty obvious, I’m going through “dry eye syndrome” ,
itching, burning, and irritation of the eyes, sometimes called “dry eye syndrome,” is one of [...]

Your favorite MMO blog John Chow dot Com has gone thru a complete blog design makeover last week. Shoemoney already did that a couple of month back. Worth mentioning here kid Carl Ocab stated in his recent post that bloggers in their early stages worry about their design too much. They spend countless hours working [...]

Don’t care what other people are saying about you. The moment you start listening to the critics, is the moment you start to fail.

This was the statement made by Mr. Loren Feldman in recent Izea Fest held at Orlando. Loren runs a video blog 1938media.com where he plays with his puppets for creating news. In [...]

YouTube
This is biggest time sucker. When ever I visit YouTube for some referral videos for my topic, it always traps me with some really interesting hundreds and thousands of videos available on the site. It’s all starts with playing related videos on the subjects then some more related videos and there you are, lost and [...]

last month i completed my one year as blogger, here is a retro right from the beginning.
“Blogging is now a very common term among youth today. As of August 2008, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 130 million blogs.”
If you still wonder what a blog is then let me explain what it’s [...]

If you allow your reader for open registration on your blog then you must upgrade your blog to WordPress 2.6.2. From security point of view it’s mandatory to upgrade WP to next level Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand().

With open registration enabled, it is [...]

She thinks she has a very interesting topic to write about, She start writing it, out of curiosity she Google the internet to find out is there article written previously on that subject, it goes again, Google returns with 1 million pages written on that specific subject.
There are chances that what you are planning to [...]