Copyblogger has an insightful post about the future of blogging. Twitter-style social networking is currently pulling some people away from some blogs. Stats are going down.
But in the end, it will be a good thing to separate blogging from Twittering. Because sometimes people want to know that the famous blogger just got her car back [...]

Copyblogger has an insightful post about the future of blogging. Twitter-style social networking is currently pulling some people away from some blogs. Stats are going down.

But in the end, it will be a good thing to separate blogging from Twittering. Because sometimes people want to know that the famous blogger just got her car back from the shop and isn’t happy with the repair work, and other times they want to know if she has a solution for digging their sites out of Google’s supplemental index. Twitter and blogging fulfill entirely different interests. In the end, they can’t actually steal each other’s traffic because if you want to get information, you’re not going to Twitter. You’re going to go blogreading.

Your options are expanding. You no longer have to have personality to be a successful blogger - you can just impart information. Or if you’re all personality, go sort out how you can make money by keeping an audience of Twitterers glued to their screens.

I’m still crazy about Zoho Notebook, which has a lot more features I like than Google docs. Once their email system is available, I intend to replace Gmail too, and have all my online organization stuff in one place. At that point, Feedburner will be the only inroad Google has to seeing what I’m up [...]

I’m still crazy about Zoho Notebook, which has a lot more features I like than Google docs. Once their email system is available, I intend to replace Gmail too, and have all my online organization stuff in one place. At that point, Feedburner will be the only inroad Google has to seeing what I’m up to and collating my stats to fuel their internet domination.

In the past, the one thing about Google Docs that beat Zoho was that you could work in your Google docs online or off and sync everything. Now Zoho has a plugin for Microsoft Office that does the same. So far, it works fast and without a hitch, even on a very old, sad computer that longs to be in computer heaven.

If you use Gimp, you know it’s awesome for free but it’s not really a Photoshop replacement. But you can make it look more like Photoshop with GimpShop. And hey, whoever said appearance wasn’t everything was probably invisible.
GimpShop consolidates all those crazy windows Gimp likes to generate - one for every toolbar, another [...]

If you use Gimp, you know it’s awesome for free but it’s not really a Photoshop replacement. But you can make it look more like Photoshop with GimpShop. And hey, whoever said appearance wasn’t everything was probably invisible.

GimpShop consolidates all those crazy windows Gimp likes to generate - one for every toolbar, another for each image - into one window with lots of little windows inside it - like Photoshop. If you’ve ever had Gimp stash, like, 10 windows down in your taskbar for you to hunt through until you find the one you were looking for - which might be under your Firefox, who the hell knows - you know why this makes Gimp a lot nicer to use.

No other major changes, but it’s worth a download.

I’ve been using Qumana as my desktop blogging app for a while. It’s not bad at all, but as time goes by, it started getting harder and harder to open. I’d launch it, and the launch screen would come up, but the program never really loaded. Plus, it does some things with bulleted lists that [...]

I’ve been using Qumana as my desktop blogging app for a while. It’s not bad at all, but as time goes by, it started getting harder and harder to open. I’d launch it, and the launch screen would come up, but the program never really loaded. Plus, it does some things with bulleted lists that reduce me to tears.

So I read some good things about Zoundry and decided to give it a shot. Here’s what I’ve found so far in no particular order.

• If you copy and paste, say, a blog entry title complete with link so you don’t have to waste your time linking to it manually, Zoundry kills the giant header font and pastes it in at the size font you’re using. Nice!
• When you’re highlighting words to link to or format, the highlight jumps more intuitively. I wasted a lot of time and wrist movement trying to keep Qumama from grabbing punctuation marks and other items near the stuff I meant to format.
• The timestamping feature is hidden when you first install it. Don’t be like me and waste 15 minutes hunting: click the blue arrow thingie near the top right corner (at the end of the Tag Words field) to expose the timestamp stuff.
• I rather liked Qumana’s blog manager: a separate window where you could quickly look at your recent posts on each blog. Since I like to post ahead, this helps me keep track of what day I’m up to. Zoundry puts this in a sidebar, and then you have to click the blog, and then you have to click the latest entry to see its stats (like when it posts) in the bottom window. It’s a bit more clicking, but I’ll live.
• It seems to work faster than Qumana and I’m not seeing bugs so far.
• I haven’t played with images, but this guy did and you can read what he said. It looks like it has a great interface for that.
• Keyboard shortcuts for all the things I do most often. Swwweeeet! And you know how you find them? Hover your mouse over the button for the function you want to use and it gives you the shortcut.
• Plenty of pinging options, and it’s easier to configure them than it was in Qumana (my word, that took some time!).
• Initial setup is also easy via our friend autodiscovery.
• When you hit “publish”, it pops up a window to confirm that the pinging services you want are selected (you can change it if not), that the date you’ve chosen is what you want (if you’re timestamping) and gives you an opportunity to post it as a draft, which is a nice option if you need it.

I’m liking it and I’m going to keep using it. I’ll definitely let you know if I run into anything bad, but for free, it’s pretty wonderful.

On my only multi-author blog, I just have an "Authors" page with a paragraph about everybody. But Developed Traffic has the way to create actual author pages and link to them from the sidebar. Very cool solution.

On my only multi-author blog, I just have an "Authors" page with a paragraph about everybody. But Developed Traffic has the way to create actual author pages and link to them from the sidebar. Very cool solution.

Kieron was kind enough not to link us to the new Rich Gurus sales page boasting magic techniques for earning instant piles of money online from some top, and intriguingly anonymous, gurus who know it all. Then Monty, one of the commenters, did us a big favor and linked us to the Onion’s version of [...]

Kieron was kind enough not to link us to the new Rich Gurus sales page boasting magic techniques for earning instant piles of money online from some top, and intriguingly anonymous, gurus who know it all. Then Monty, one of the commenters, did us a big favor and linked us to the Onion’s version of a get rich quick sales page:

I Lied About Making $80,000 Working From Home… And So Can You!

Title says it all, really. Oy.

Please bookmark the Onion page, if you think there could ever come a time when you’re tempted to buy something like the Rich Guru’s stuff. When the urge arises, just to read the Onion page and remind yourself it’ll go away like all the others.