interesting tumblr-blogs

blog directory

some inspirational designs, even if they look not very flexible to me

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Pingoat is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, thus increasing your blog's popularity.

Having direct advertisers is a very lucrative way of monetizing your blog. Ads are one of the few ways in which a blogger can capitalize on existing blog traffic without any additional work. First step for a blogger to attract sponsors to his blog is to create an online blog media kit.

a huge list of content resources for you to peruse and investigate for possible blog content.

List of 40 advises about blogging.

this two-minute noodle concept can be easily applied to any type of content as a marketing tool.

"the porous membrane: why corporate blogging works" is a simple but great explaination of why corporation should care about social media and how all this fancy stuff affects the corporate world

a list of issues most bloggers should be aware of anyway, but sometimes it helps remembering reading the worst mistakes.

All the top corporate blogs on one page

service that publish nearly everthing you mail them. Good idea for a fotoblog or something like this using a mobile device.

"Most bloggers love their RSS readers. Not only that, but they also love to gain new RSS readers. It is such a joy when you wake up one day and see that your Feedburner count jumped by 200 or 300, right?"

"Commenting on dofollow blogs can be a great way to gain traffic, and great backlinks. Here are a few ways to find such blogs." Very nice hint and list of tools.

my former blog is still reachable for archiving purpose.

Funny to see all these former versions of butterfly X starting in the year 2002 using the wayback machine

Wow! Finally, I replaced my webdesign blog with this lifestream.

A lifestream is an aggreagtion of feeds and stream, which means that you will find my messages I tweet to twitter also here, but also my del.icio.us bookmarks in between.

In my opinion, this is the next step, as blogging needs mostly to much time to prepare articles in detail and on a regular basis. Also most blog represent only a fragment of the interests and knowhow of a blogger and a lifestream offers a more complete image.

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