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10 Most Practical Blogs for Entrepreneurs - No philosophy, theory or personal rants/raves/ramblings here - just practical tips for business owners. Twenty Usability Tips for Your Blog - Tips for increasing the usability of your blog for your users which can lead to new and returning readers. Big list of blog search engines - a very detailed resource for blog search engines. Search Engine Submission Tips - an interesting list of techniques and strategies you can use to make your blog appear in relevant search results. How to Make Money From Your Website - a practical guide that explains the differences between the different advertising systems that you can use on your blog. 25 Tips To Optimize Your Blog For Readers & Search Engines - useful tips that help your blog stand out from the crowd. Research, Promote And Monetize Your Online Writing: A Blogger’s Guide To Twitter - a great guide by Michael Pick that shows you how to get the best out of Twitter. 25 Tips for Marketing Yo

PayPal - PayPal allows you to set up a donations system on your site. Your readers can click a button that will bring them to a page where they can send you some cash. Chitika - Contextual interactive CPC advertising. Requires more screen real estate than AdSense, but tends to have higher click-through rates and payout rates. LinkAdage - Text links and text advertisements to generate revenue from your website by way of bidding, brokering, and exchanging text advertisements. Txtswap - If you want to exchange text links to try and bring in more users, and in turn raise the potential to gain income, this is another service to try. Google AdSense - Almost certainly the largest single source of income to bloggers worldwide. Pay per click and per view. Yahoo Publisher network - pay per click ads, similar to Google AdSense. AdBrite - Get paid for text link advertisements on your blog. Text Link Ads - One of the leading suppliers of text link advertisements. BidVertiser - an advertisin

MyBlogLog - Possibly the coolest blog community building tool around. Doubles as a simple analytics tool. BlogRolling – Blogroll manager. PollDaddy - cool polls for your blog. BlogPolls - another provider of free polls for bloggers Favicon Maker – simple service that enables you to easily create a favicon from an image. Qumana - a desktop blog editor for Mac and Windows. Blogjet - another desktop blog client, works only on Windows. Blogarithm - enables you to track all your content at one place. GeoLoc - a widget that shows your visitors’ locations on a world map. JunkIWant - display your Amazon wishlist as a widget on your blog BlogSticker - create stickers for your blog. MyOpenId - enables you to identify yourself for various online service, using your blog address. BlogFlux tools - several cool tools for bloggers. ImageShack - free photo hosting service.

Omea - one of the most fully featured RSS readers out there; can get a little slow as its database grows; free in its basic version, also has a commercial, advanced version with more features Mozilla Thunderbird - Mozilla’s e-mail and RSS reader, supports skins and add-ons Awasu - RSS reader with a customizable user interface, the ability to synchronize with other readers, bookmarking and annotation, and republishing of your feeds GreatNews - integrates with Bloglines, and offers a very fast way to browse through your feeds RSS Bandit - RSS reader that offers organization of your feeds through folders, as well as synchronization across several installations IntraVNews - an RSS reader that integrates with Microsoft’s Outlook. SharpReader - requires .NET framework, lets you organize feeds into folders, integrates with Feedster, can display new items via system tray popups eCruiser - an RSS reader in Japanese Juice - a pretty basic RSS reader Opera - Opera web browser comes with

Newsfire - RSS reader for OS X NetNewsWire - Newsgator’s RSS reader for the Mac comes in two flavors: commercial and free PixelNews - a commercial Mac OS X RSS reader that comes with a huge database of feeds Shrook - a Mac RSS reader which also has a web based version; supports synchronization, instant notifications via Growl, real time search, smart grouping and more Vienna - a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader, with a built-in tabbed browser and the ability to customize feed display NewsLife - RSS reader for the Mac, pleasing to the eye, simple and easy to use Squeet - another Mac RSS reader, currently on hiatus

Reddit - Social content site with focus on fun stuff, politics, science; sometimes, anything goes. Witty descriptions are obligatory. ClipMarks - A service that allows you to save and share “clips” from web pages. Digg - Social content site that likes technology-related content; especially Google and Apple related. Promoting your own blog - especially too aggressively - on Digg is not a good idea. Blogmarks - another “clipping” service for saving and sharing links from the web. Newsvine - Social news site with plenty of options and features Netscape - Netscape’s social news portal, less oriented towards technology than both Digg and Reddit Del.icio.us - If you need to share bookmarks or you want people to tell you about websites, Del.icio.us will allow you to do that.

Liferea - RSS reader for Gnome users Akregator - RSS reader for KDE Straw - RSS reader for Gnome, supports RSS and ATOM, as well as exporting/importing OPML feeds Snownews - text based RSS reader for all you 1337 people AgileRSS - desktop aggregator that is able to display any RSS, ATOM, and XML news feed; also offers an RSS news ticker

Sage - RSS reader for Firefox, has a decent amount of options, allows CSS customization Wizz - a very advanced RSS reader for Firefox with a huge set of options RSS Ticker - an RSS ticker for Firefox with a large number of options Beatnik - simple RSS reader for Firefox BlogRovr - a Firefox plugin that brings you related news based on your feed choices and the website you’re currently visiting NewsFox - fully featured RSS reader for Firefox, with three panes; similar to Thunderbird InfoRSS - another RSS ticker for Firefox with a very comprehensive set of options Feedbar - Feedbar displays new live bookmarks items directly in your Firefox sidebar

Miscellaneous Topical Blog Search Engines : Edu RSS (educational only) Educational Feeds Feeds.com.br (Brasil only) Finance Investing Feeds Realty Feeds Medical Feeds Science Port Sports Feeds Political Feeds Government Feeds RSS Verzeichnis

Style Library -If you are looking for a way to make your Movable Type blog look fresh, then look no further. The Style Contest - A collection of Movable Type Styles created from contests to create the best styles. Only the best is here. Style Generator - Use this if you wish to take things in to your own hands and create your own Styles for use with Movable Type.

Feedlist - a wordpress plugin that displays linked lists imported from an RSS or ATOM feed Feedsmith - redirects all RSS feeds on a Wordpress blog to the Feedburner feed. Fedafi RSS plugin - a plugin for Wordpress that creates a full text valid RSS 2.0 feed from your Wordpress blog and adds a style sheet, tracks subscribers and clicks on articles. BDP RSS aggregator - converts RSS feeds to Wordpress blog entries. Handy for creating an automatic blog. Sig2Feed - Wordpress plugin that lets you add a signature to your RSS feeds

Feed Validator – By entering your feed URL at Feed Validator, the service will literally translate your RSS to code and identify any potential problems. It works with versions of RSS up to 2.0. RSS 1.0 Validator – This validator for RSS 1.0 generates an HTML page identifying any errors. Redland RSS 1.0 Validator & Viewer – This validator offers a variety of display options for checking your feeds.

Your next laptop could have a continuous power battery that lasts for 30 years without a single recharge thanks to work being funded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. The breakthrough betavoltaic power cells are constructed from semiconductors and use radioisotopes as the energy source. As the radioactive material decays it emits beta particles that transform into electric power capable of fueling an electrical device like a laptop for years. Although betavoltaic batteries sound Nuclear they’re not, they neither use fission/fusion or chemical processes to produce energy and so (do not produce any radioactive or hazardous waste). Betavoltaics generate power when an electron strikes a particular interface between two layers of material. The Process uses beta electron emissions that occur when a neutron decays into a proton which causes a forward bias in the semiconductor. This makes the betavoltaic cell a forward bias diode of sorts, similar in some respects to a photovoltaic (s

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Search Engine Strategies Perhaps the most important and inexpensive strategy is to rank high for your preferred words on the main search engines in "organic" or "natural" searches (as opposed to paid ads). Search engines send robot "spiders" to index the content on your webpage, so let's begin with steps to prepare your web pages for optimal indexing. The idea here is not to trick the search engines, but to leave them abundant clues as to what your webpage is about. 1. Write a Page Title. Write a descriptive title for each page of 5 to 8 words. Remove as many "filler" words from the title, such as "the," "and," etc. This page title will appear hyperlinked on the search engines when your page is found. Plan to use some descriptive keywords along with your business name on your home page. 2. Write a Description and Keyword META Tag. The description should be a sentence or two describing the content of the webpage, using the