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On The Death Of Google Reader

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But is this just a sign of RSS feeds becoming a part of Internet Past? ” This is mainly because Twitter has become my RSS feed over the last couple of years. I think this could be the beginning of the end for the RSS feed. An RSS feed is really just another stop I have to make in my daily intake of information.

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Judging A Blog Post By Its Cover

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Because when you live in a world as fast-paced as ours, you just have a few seconds while your potential reader is skimming through her email, or RSS reader, or website, and decides whether or not to click through and read the fully story… or move on. They might be helpful to you as you continue on your path as a blogging Grasshopper.

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5 Ways To Spice Up Your WordPress Blog

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If you’re just getting started blogging (or maybe even if you’ve been doing it a while), here are some WordPress plugins I really really like. I really like its functionality, plus it’s a great way for folks to search on your blog as well as on the Interwebz without actually leaving your blog. LinkWithin.

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Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog

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Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog November 10th, 2010 Tweet Last week, Joe Hackman hosted Danny Brown , Gini Dietrich and me on his BlogTalkRadio show, aptly entitled PRapalooza. Blogging is a strange beast.

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12 Ways To Make Your WordPress Blog Cleaner And Cuter

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What this does is let you select a certain number of blogs from your blogroll, and only that number of blogs will be displayed. I love how, when you click on an image, it starts the slideshow right on your blog! Don’t forget I started out this post with my initial list of five ways for you to spice up your blogging.

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Customize Your Blog's Error Page in 5 Easy Steps

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A while back, I was looking at my Google Analytics for WUL and I noticed that my 404 page , i.e. the one you get when the server can’t find the page you’re looking for on a particular site, was the 4th most highly-trafficked page on my blog. And they wouldn’t bother to poke around on the blog to find it.

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

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Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial? A few weeks ago, they asked a question about paying for blog posts. In 2010, blogs and bloggers are truly influencers. Let me unpack this a bit.

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