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Where to watch and find breaking news online - For news junkies

December 18, 2008 by evl

I am a real news junkie. I dont know why but its like an addiction. I want to know things before the rest of the world knows them Also running a blog I can blog about things before others blog about it. Its just plain addictive. So here are a few places to get stuck on looking for breaking news. Some you know, some you might not. Some are obvious. Lets explore: Google News Google News is probably a crowd favorite and I can understand why. Instead of just showing one news source it shows the collective topic all the news sites are talking about. So instead of just finding one breaking news story, you'll find that breaking news story showing all the sites that write about it. One thing worth it is to customize your news on Google News. Personally I dont like sport so i removed it. screen-capture.png Newsvine Newsvine is like a news community where you can vote on news and share news. Its basically as I said a news community. This is worth checking out although if you are not living in the US you might not enjoy it that much since it mostly focussed on US stories. screen-capture-1.png Twitter Twitter can be a great source to find breaking news. Oddly most people that have breaking news usually use the words "breaking news" For instance doing a search on search.twitter.com and searching for "breaking news" will give you many results and mostly when bloggers and tweeters break the news, it's before the news channels and papers. screen-capture-2.png Addict-o-matic (addictomatic.com) This is a different type of way to find the news. This will not really show you all the breaking news from random topics but will enable you to find news about a specific topic. By choosing your sources and typing in your wanted word you want news for it enables you to find news or articles from various places. Although you can find breaking news here about a topic you might also find things that are a bit older. screen-capture-3.pngscreen-capture-4.png screen-capture-5.png screen-capture-6.png

Make Wordpress post faster

November 30, 2008 by evl

I've had some trouble recently with Wordpress. Every time i wanted to post something the page would just hang. I search all over the internet until eventually and ironically i got to wordpress.org and found the code.

The code to remove is this:

<?php

$metadata = has_meta($post->ID);

list_meta($metadata);

?>

from this file wp-admin\edit-form-advanced.php

But I want to go further with that, Removing that code is a great idea even if you are not experiencing problems because it does take longer than it would without that code. So if you want your post page to load faster just remove that code.

The only plugins that work with Wordpress 2.7 so farWond

November 21, 2008 by evl

Seems there are not that many plugins that support 2.7 yet. Upgrading might have to wait for more people than i expected. There are thousands of plugins people rely upon, including me, i also have some plugins i really like.So I really hope those will be compatible with Wordpress 2.7 A - D *

Role Models - Movie Trailer and Exclusive clip

November 15, 2008 by Daizy

This movie, Role Models, looks hilarious. It probably will have some sappy good feel parts in it but mostly it looks funny. Now I don't particularly like the type film with kids involved, there is just something annoying about watching kids on screen. But these two doesn't seem so annoying to watch. The movie is about these two sales reps, Danny and Wheeler, who mess up badly and they get two choices go to jail for 30days or community service. So they get sent to a organization that gets role models for children. The thing is these two Danny played by Paul Rudd, is an guy who just can't grow up. He gets placed with a sixteen year old boy named Augie, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who is a complete and utter geek. Wheeler played by Seann William Scott, is the last type of guy you would want as a role model for your kids gets placed with a foul mouthed little boy Ronnie played by Bobb'e J. Thompson. So the plot is pretty much obvious, wonder if I'll be surprised at the end. This movie is definitely just for laughs even though it has a good message attached, if you are in search of something that would make you think, this is not it.

Taking over a niche starts with the longtail

October 28, 2008 by evl

Niche blogging is not always easy especially if you have a lot of competition. But keeping a close eye over your search results, the results people find your site for is the first step in getting your blog into the short tail as they call it.

First when search engines scan your site and you start your blog out you will not rate for the wanted keywords and this is where most people starting using the meta tags and things like that. I dont have any meta tags on this site and the reason for that is simple, associating your site with keywords will result in your site being limited to those keywords and restrict growth.

I am sure by now you might think i am just writing a bunch of nonsense but I have have the facts to prove it. It really is that simple. So you might get one visitor right, but you have to watch and learn from how you got that one visitor and once you analyze your keyword the site was found for you can see where and how to go further.

I will blog about this topic a bit later. Please join the feed for updates.

Feedburner and the Search engine optimization

October 28, 2008 by evl

I have always used search engine optimization as means of getting traffic to a site but recently i found a interesting article that dealt with feedburner etc. So i head of to feedburner to check out if I have any subscribers and alas, less than 100 subscribers. So i thought for a site that gets more than 50k visitors a month I really need to up my rss subscribers, because if you have no subscribers you have not well... Subscribers.

68 Twitter tools to satisfy your twitter addiction

October 26, 2008 by evl

I like twitter. So, i decided to do a post about twitter. Here it is :) Twitter tools for Firefox Twitterfox - Twitter app for firefox, sits in the bottom. Twittermore - Firefox extension that lets you post longer than 140 characters Twitterbar - Post directly to twitter from your address bar Twitbin - Twitter communication from firefox. Twitkit - A entire sidebar dedicated to Twitter. (has other features as well) Dashblog - Collect media and post it to twitter / blog TwittyTunes - Post your currently playing songs to twitter with one click Tinyurl Creator - Shrink urls quickly for twitter BlogRovr - Twit about the site you are on Feedly - Rss reader integrated with twitter as well Yoono - socialize your Firefox includes twitter tools PingFire - post to ping.fm (thereby updating twitter) Twitter tools for Mac Twitterrific -
Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or "tweets" to the Twitter community website. The application's user interface is clean, concise and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac's desktop.

Another reason to keep your data off the cloud and get your own hosting Aol to nuke content

October 22, 2008 by evl

theodp writes "Blaming an unquantified decline in usage, AOL has notified users it's decided the best thing to do is delete all of their blogs and files on October 31st. Want to save that precious blog of yours? AOL not-so-helpfully suggests: 'The quickest and easiest way to do this is by copying and pasting your content into a word processing document such as Microsoft Word, Notepad or even into an email and mailing it back to yourself. If you have any images we suggest you save them separately by right clicking on the image, choosing "Save Picture As" and allocate the drive on your PC where you would like to save them to.' Gee, thanks. And don't get too smug, Google users - the search giant has put its users on notice that Google Page Creator will be a thing of the past by year-end, although details of the transition have yet to be provided."

See how you should not put your stuff on free places and rather spend that R80 or $10 and getting your own domain? Depending on the cloud for a blog or rather anything is just not that bright.

Via

Keep on blogging, if you dont have a blog start one. Ever read this before? Well here are 10 reasons you need to get blogging.

September 30, 2008 by evl

Have you ever read someone saying start a blog but dont quite get it? I used to read people saying all the time " start a blog " but I did not understand why. Well here is a few (10) reasons why to start blogging that I have learned since I have started blogging

 

1. Blogging can give you better writing skills Since I have been blogging my grammar and spelling has improved greatly. Also with the help of Firefox and its spell check. When I do make a mistake I see it and next time I know how to spell the word. By the way, my first language is not english.

 

2. Blogging can teach you people skills Blogging can teach you how to handle certain situations. When conflicts arise you can learn in blogging how to handle it. And when you leave your computer you have those skills.

 

3 Blogging can teach you how to socialize While it might be a bit different than normal socializing, blogging can teach you how to socialize. Blogging is not just people blogging about random crap but it involves skill and one must be able to socialize in order to have a successful blog.

 

4. Blogging can teach you how to do Marketing To have a successful blog you need to learn how to market your blog. You need to learn how to advertise your blog for as cheap as possible and get ways to get more traffic to your blog. Blogging can teach you a great deal of marketing.

 

5. Blogging can be a business for products Instead of listing products on a normal site, why not blog about them. The more you blog about them the more you stand the chance of being found on search engines for that specific product. While this is not that easy with things like computers its way easy if you have a small product you are trying to sell that is not as famous as computers. Just think about it. What would get more traffic? 100 products listed on a site or 1000 blog posts, 10 posts about each product linking to each other? Obviously the blog would get more visitors.

 

6. Blogging can help your typing skills This is if you can type already. Blogging can increase your typing skills. This will greatly help you if you want a job as a secretary or such.

 

7. Blogging can give you self confidence Blogging can give you great self confidence and make you feel better about yourself. To afraid to take chances and speak to people? Well as my blog grew I started to speak to people more. Now I have confidence to speak to anyone.

 

8. Blogging can get you a job. Being a authoritative blogger in your are of expertise can get you a job in that area or niche. If your design blog rates higher than for instance a design company you might get a job.

 

9. Blogging can make you some spare cash or you can make a lot of money from blogging. Blogging for money is easy but it takes a lot of work. Quiting your job is possible though. Blogging for a few months can make you some spare cash if you know how to work those ads. Try google adsense. You can make a few bucks a day with that. The point is blogging can make you money.

 

10. Blogging is fun If you enjoy doing puzzles and thinking. You will enjoy blogging. Blog like you are playing a game and think of new topics every day. It will keep you young no matter how old you are. Blogging is fun and if your are not blogging you are missing out. Thank you for reading please bookmark this on all those nice places that brings more people that would enjoy this article. Remember to keep on blogging!