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Top 25 blogs according to Times
The guys at Time.com said well, lets separate the nonsense blogs from those who make sense, so they searched the web and picked out 25 blogs “about something” from the millions of blogs “about nothing”, and asked its readers to vote their selection.
Well, the outcome… was rather predictable to a certain point; the “crazy” fans of Beppe Grillo pushed that blog to the first place; Frankly speaking, it’s got all to do with fanaticism. Three quarters of what Beppe Grillo writes is just bullshit.
Amongst the blogs I read daily, featured the highly productive Lifehacker; 4th place, Engagement; 7th place, and TechCrunch; 10th place.
Amongst the many “unclassified” blogs stand-out the many money making bla bla bla blogs like ShoeMoney by Jeremy Schoemaker, John Chow dot com by John Chow, or Problogger by Darren Rowse. It seems the guys at Time dot com don’t buy all those “pseudo money making blogs”
If I have the possibility to add a blog to that list, that blog would be Linux.com. I guess there are still very few Linux fans out there, that makes it difficult for Linux blogs stand-out.
I know why my blog doesn’t feature amongst the 25 blogs; its the 26th :-)
Which blog would you add or take off that list? Let us know in comments.
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Make client-side blogging easier with Thingamablog
Thingamablog is an open source cross-platform blogging application that helps you publish, update and maintain more than one blog at a time from the client side.
All you need to get started is, locally installed Java Runtime Environment, a Web Server, and the rpm package of Thingamablog for Linux (use alien to transform it into a .deb package in Ubuntu) – Also available are the Windows self-extracting installer, and source code.
You should be asking, what about Mysql and an Ftp client? These are not needed as Thingamablog as functions as a Ftp client when you update or publish; and being a client side blogging application is does not need Mysql.
The author of this page says the major drawback is that being a client side application, the files on the server side aren’t rewritable, so visitors can’t leave comments – a possible solution offered is using a free commenting service like HaloScan, or recoding it to permit commenting on the server side
But comments on the site say, the development team does not pays attention to bug reports, worst still the development process seems closed – strange enough for an open source project and on Linux, the wizards render it less practicable.
In other words Thingamblog has a potential and could become a good client side blogging application, but for now a lot still has to be done.
via [Linux.com]
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A comprehensive guide for Linux command-line users.
Unix ToolBox is a well made documentation of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks for those who do not fear the command-line and want to get some extra tips. Each task or command is followed by an explanation that makes it easy for comprehension, unlike many other documents of this type.
The document is divided into several categories to ease up research - the navigation sidebar makes it easy for you to pick-out exactly what you want.
It is an ad-free, practical guide for both experts and none. I find it very helpful, and hope it can be the same for you.
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Kabatology Features in top Websites
These are just two of the several posts featuring Kabatology, done on other top websites or weblogs. It has little to do with blog promotion, nothing to do with alter ago, but all to do with the authors aptitude for freelance-tech-writing and web programing/developing.
Both posts are done by Kabatology’s author Martin Kaba aka Kanute.
1) Design better Web pages with Firefox extensions - on Linux.com
2) Gmail Hack: Use Your Account Space Like Extended Drive - on The Thinking Blog
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Microsoft to acquire Yahoo
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer, Steve Ballmer writes a letter to Yahoo Inc, proposing to buy the Search Engine for about $44.6 billion. Microsoft tries to take advantage of the difficult period Yahoo is facing and intends to get deep down into online advertising and breakdown the Google dominance.
An extract of the letter says;
“While online advertising growth continues, there are significant benefits of scale in advertising platform economics, in capital costs for search index build-out, and in research and development, making this a time of industry consolidation and convergence. Today, the market is increasingly dominated by one player who is consolidating its dominance through acquisition. Together, Microsoft and Yahoo! can offer a credible alternative for consumers, advertisers, and publishers”.
via [DealBook-New York Times]
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Happy New Year 2008!
Happy New Year to all my Readers -this year has been very intensive, I’m happy for all I achieved through this blog, some readers became friends and I’m also very happy for that - I lost others by the way but I know it is still possible to get in touch. Keep in touch by registering to my Feeds or by downloading my Toolbar.
I’ll also like to thank some the blogs that inspired me this year like;
Linux.com ~ Linux
Lifehacker ~ Tips and Downloads for getting things done!
Linux Magazine ~ Linux Magazine Online
JohnChow dot Com ~ Excellent Blogging Tips
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