Digest for April 2007

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April started off with a bang with WordPress.com using my April Fool’s idea :) My own attempt to head in a different direction with my April Fool’s LOLcats went well, with a surprising 6000-some hits. I am seriously wondering if my April Fool’s intersection between lolcats and wordpress indirectly led to ICANHASCHEESEBURGER being hosted on WordPress.com VIP? I get a warm fuzzy seeing them as the Top Blog every day.

Guest Bloggers

During April I featured a whole bunch of guest bloggers. I liked the experience, and would love to do it again. It made me realize that instead of trying to crank out 5 posts a week + 1 linkblog, I should focus on 2-3 quality posts and not worry if a day goes by without a blog post. Apparently the Internet still goes on even if you aren’t there. Who knew?

• How I Learned to Shoot the Engineers and Ship the Product
  
  • (by guest blogger Andy Lawrence)
• Are you making the most out of Google Search?
  • (by guest blogger Ashish Mohta)
• Lions, Tigers and Managers Oh My – The IT Animal Kingdom
  • (by guest blogger logtar)
• An Introduction to Reputation Management
  • (by guest blogger Tim Nash)
• How to design a variable sidebar WordPress theme with widgets
  • (by guest blogger Daria Black)
• For Those Who Are New to the WordPress.com Support Forums
  • (by guest blogger Sulz)

Working in Tech

• How to find out if you are passionate about your career or if you are just wilfing
  • There’s some good discussion in the comments on this post.
• 14 Tips to Get More Done in Less Time
  • Part of the Ultimate Guide to Productivity group writing project.

Memes / Group Writing Projects

• What’s Your Web 2.0? (meme/survey)
  • Inspired by an older post, I want to do an informal survey of what “social” Internet sites people make use of.
• Want to win some free t-shirts? Group Writing Project #3 — Theme = T-shirts or Movies
  • More free stuff for my readers who want to join me in some group writing.
• Joost Invite Giveaway to RSS Subscribers
  • I’m trying to give incentives to my RSS subscribers as a way of saying thanks for validating my ego :)

Aggregated Links

• Best of Feeds – 20 links – code, digg, programming, web2.0, software, google
• Best of Feeds – 36 links – humor, programming, code, tips, gmail, seo
• Best of Feeds – 15 links – google, lifehacker, twitter, usability, design, greasemonkey
• Best of Feeds – 17 links – blogging, blogs, code, blog, google, search

Technorati

• Technorati Favoritism – Trading Favours
  • I’ve ignored the Technorati Favorites feature for a long time, so I figured I’d try to give it a go with the incentive that I’ll favorite back anyone who favorites me.
• Technorati Program – Automatically Favorite Anyone Who Favorites You
  • It looks like there’s around 400 other bloggers who are reciprocally favoriting back the people who favorite their blogs, I wrote a small program to reduce the time sink people were spending on this activity so they can get back to blogging.
• Are Bloggers Being Gamed? – Fixing the Technorati Favorites Feature
  • As it stands there isn’t a good reason to use the favorites feature other than trying to get on a top 100 list that has no legitimacy, I offer some suggestions on how to make it a better feature.

Most Popular Posts for the month of April 2007

• How to Create LOLCats
• 14 Tips to Get More Done in Less Time
• How I Learned to Shoot the Engineers and Ship the Product
• Windows XP Logon Screen with No User Accounts
• An Introduction to Reputation Management
• Why You Should Own Your Domain Name

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