More about Google RSS Reader
Can you spot it? The Google Reader actually have a MP3-player built in. Great for checking out Podcasts! And its done in Flash, of course. :-)
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New online blog reader from Google
Google continues to crank out new services, and the last one to launch is Google reader I have been a happy user of Bloglines for a good while, and it was nice to discover that it was easy to export my Bloglines reading list to an OPML-file and import it into the Google Reader. Google has also made it easy both to import and export the reading list, so trying it out will be of no risk. Still not sure if I like Bloglines way of showing posts grouped by …
Advice to bloggers by Joi Ito
This is a guy I have great respect for. And his advice seems like good advice for new and old bloggers. Joi Ito’s Web: Blogging style […] You need help thinking – Focus on the parts that you can’t figure out. Ask people to help you think. […] I will be sure to remember his advice as I continue to blog.
Todays blog-to-visit: Snapshots
Snapshots is norwegian blogger Lene Solbakkens personal blog with lots of great pictures and travel stories. Lene is an old friend of mine, and recently she has become quite the photograper. She has been traveling all over Norway and taken lots of great pictures from places such as Troms
Todays blog-to-visit: Overshadowed
If you, like me, like good photography, then you shouldn’t overlook overshadowed Overshadowed is the photoblog of Keith Kin Yan. Many of his recent photo entries in his blog are photos shot with Hasselblad and Yashica medium format cameras. There are also pictures taken by his Nikon D2H digital camera. (OK, I officially have equipment envy). The pictures are both from New York City and Hong Kong and showcase some incredible skills on lighting and framework. Especially the medium format pictures are breathtaking. Well worth a look for anyone interested …
Daily Show on the power of Blogs
Funny story on The Daily Show about blogs and their power against the media.
Three years of blogging and not giving up
Today is the 3 year anniversary of my English blog. In three years I have been able to post 668 entries. Thats a little more than 1/2 an entry every day. In other words, all in all it hasn’t been the most active blog in the blogsphere. But it still has been able to function in many ways. Both as a voice in the Flash community while I was working in that field, as a voice for my own very strong opinions in politics as well as place for me …
The Register interviews a link spammer
If you own a blog, you have probably experienced it: Spammers who fill your comment sections with ads for Viagra, porn and gambling. Its the new nuisance of the web: Link spammers. The Register has gotten a hold of one of them, and bring us this informative interview: Interview with a link spammer So how and why do “link spammers” – as they generically call themselves – do it? Are they the same as the email spammers? What do they think of what they do, ethically? And what can stop …
RSS feeds and copyright
This dumb ass (also known as Martin Schwimmer of Trademark Blog, has a problem with Bloglines picking up his public RSS-feed and redistributing it. Because they might at some stage serve ads together with the content. For those of you unfamiliar with Bloglines; its an online feedreader that you can use to read most any feeds from any news source or blog on the net that has its own feed. Martin: I have the perfect solution: Stop publishing the feed. Its that simple. Crying about copyright problems when someone distributes …
Fighting comment spam
Jay Allen has written a very nice document on how to fight comment spam Jay Allen should know a thing or two about comment spam. Before joing Six Apart he wrote the now famous MT-Blacklist plugin for Movable Type. If you are one of many thats experiencing problems with comment spam, then there really are three things you should take care of to get rid of the problem: