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How to take a Vacation from Blogging
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So some of you noticed a break in action here at Noheat. Its true I let it lapse for a week, “How horrible” you say to not update your content everyday. Actually it was a little experiment to see what happens when a blogger goes on vacation. Do you need guest bloggers? Do you need to twitter away on a beach just to keep your Google not busy? The answer is no.
Taking a blogger break is a completely natural thing to do, see problogger about blog vacations here. Even the most talented writer can run out of content or become burned out, so how do you keep yourself from becoming burned out while maintaining your userbase? Its very simple actually, most blogs or web pages have a good dozen or so pages that are your bread or butter, these are pages that get visited often and create the bulk of your traffic. The rest of the readers will stumble upon your web page from a plethora of links all around the web. Some will actually stumble in from StumbleUpon. The biggest thing here is that most readers rarely look at your post dates on your front page unless they are really dated so you are not loosing these readers. What about your current readers won’t they miss your content? Chances are your regular readers subscribe via RSS feed or a bookmark, and while they may miss your content few readers will unsubscribe or delete a bookmark after a week lull. Think about it how often do you delete a RSS feed?
What about ad revenue, will that suffer? Barely, sure you may be loosing traffic from new posts from regular readers who have subscribed to your feed but your bread and butter posts should keep you afloat while you are gone.
The point here is that if you need a vacation from blogging, take it. Your ad revenue will be waiting for you as well as your readers. Taking a break from your blog will keep you from writing posts that no one wants to read and can refresh your perspective on your blog. Just remember to set a date that you plan on returning to blogging full time, because a vacation from blogging can feel almost too good. Just remember your blog or web page is your baby and no one else’s and you certainly don’t want a vacation to start the desire to abandon a blog. Remember why you blog and what it gains you and you should be back on track.
BitLet, a Web-Based Bittorrent Client.
BitLet is a Java-based Bittorrent client that you can use right from within your browser. One of my favorite features about BitLet the code generator which allows you to create a special link to a torrent which you can then post on your website or send to grandma so she can easily download the torrent without having to install a Bittorrent client.
Overall I think BitLet is a great solution for getting more people to use Bittorrent who would otherwise not install a client. I just hope BitLet will be able to continue offering its service after Bittorrent goes closed source.
Play Tetris, Solitare, Sudoku, or Blackjack on iPhone
Not wanting to wait until Nintendo releases games for the new iPhone, jonesing for some Tetris? You can play it right now with iPhone Tetris. Just navigate online to the website and you are rewarded with a really clean version Tetris.
Just use the touch screen buttons as your controls, the games are ad supported by Google once you loose the game.
Not in the mood for Tetris? You can play Solitare, Sudoku, Blackjack, or the Magic 8 Ball just as easily.
Alesti the Google Reader Killer
Every once in a while a web application comes along that takes your breath away. It either does something so well that you have no excuse not to jump ship or does something much faster, Alesti does both. Like Gmail to Outlook, Alesti is to Google Reader. It really is that good.
The thing that will make you switch is speed, I flew through over 600 feeds in a matter of minutes and went straight to the feed I was looking for via Firefox’s search. Its not only fast on the backend, even the front end is extremely speedy. Like taking the parking break off of Google Reader you just get what you need very quickly. On the surface is appears that you have no keyboard navigation but apparently you get that too, see the forums.
Another one of the features that Alesti nailed was RSS feed sharing. Simply share out your RSS collection and you can be sharing out your reading collection to anyone. You send your friends a link and they can browse through the cool RSS feeds that you have found.
Usually something hangs when I try to import my gargantuan OPML file into other web based readers but Alesti just shrugged and imported all 600 Feeds, it even did that speedy. This one is a must use web application and will be extremely popular, somehow I can imagine Google knocking on their door with money in hand. Good job guys.
Break Bloggling block with IceSpy
Ever wonder what other bloggers are searching for? Metacrawler has a search engine spy and now IceRocket the “Search engine for Bloggers” does too. This can help you spark ideas on what to blog about if you are suffering from blogging block. If people are searching for the content you are best served to be there to collect them after all…
Apple Keynote Underwhelms with new DotMac features
So the Apple Keynote is over and what did we get. We got a new iMac that looks like the old one with a few case tweaks, come on who really uses a desktop anymore? We got new iWork and new iLife products that while cool already filled in the gaps left over by Microsoft and Adobe well. We also got upgrades to .Mac, the coolest feature of “DotMac” seems to be the iPhoneish looking Gallery. DotMac customers also get a boost to 10 Gigs of storage. The storage jump in conjunction with the new Gallery may make the most news from the keynote though, that is of course if anyone still has a DotMac account.
We have held on to our DotMac account in the great hope that one day Apple would do something earth shattering with DotMac and we wanted to be first on the block to see it. Yep I guess that was it, Gallery. Don’t get us wrong Gallery looks good, but since we’ve been using Picasa and Google Photos we are only slighty wooed to try to reemerge back into the land of DotMac. You see with Google if you spend $100 you get over 26 Gig of file storage, not the measly 10 Gig. So Apple did not give us much but they didn’t forget to throw us a bone in the world of DotMac.
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