Archive for April, 2007

I am interested in intersections where knowledge areas overlap and create new possibilities. JibberJobber is an interesting mix of career tool, contact manager and a help in job seeking. Networking is great, a network is something one shall build and maintain before it gets urgent to need one. The advantage with a contact manager like [...]

The JibberJobber blog stands on its own, it is useful and interesting even if you do not use the services from JibberJobber. Topics covered are often within my area of interests and I like Jason’s style in writing.

My concept is to cover “Nuts and bolts as well as bits and pieces”. Nuts and bolts, like blogging and personal growth, have their own categories while bits and pieces are lumped together under a few wider categories.
WordPress.com has released Clouds and Drop Downs which makes things easier. I have added the tag cloud in [...]

WordPress.com uses categories as tags plus uses the tags to show other blogs within WordPress.com that uses the same ones. I would like to separate categories and tags, having about a dozen categories but being more genrous with tags. And I would like my tags to be local, to work within my own blog.
Lorelle on [...]

You sit there and just can not get started, nothing pops up that feels worth writing about…. then remember you are not alone. Wikipedia defines it like this:
Writer’s block is a phenomenon involving temporary loss of ability to continue writing, usually due to lack of inspiration or creativity.
Calvin Innes has a cartoon that shows [...]

WordPress.com has launched a Contact Form. Now people can send you an email without you ever publicly displaying your email address. And as a bonus, the contact email is passing through Akismet which should reduce the number of spam emails.
This contact form is a nice feature, people can email you but your email address is [...]

I have added the functionality to subscribe to my blog using email. My provider is FeedBlitz, a service I have tested on other blogs. All you need to do to get my new posts in your mail is to click the FeedBlitz-button in the side menu or click on this link.
Another option for subscriptions by [...]

Lorelle on WordPress is an excellent blog about WordPress. Her posts are often very useful and the blog is a great source of information. Since I am researching in order to decide where to blog in the future I have used some of her posts as springboards. There are lots of links and useful comments.
By [...]

Tony Karrer has a post about Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups where he writes about he interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. Tony asks three questions:

How do you use LinkedIn?
How do you use Discussion Groups?
What’s the interaction between them?

I use LinkedIn as a networking [...]

StumbleUpon is an interesting site where you can recommend websites, webpages, blogs, blogposts, videos etc. You can also stumble upon what other has recommended and join groups of people with similar interests. Stumbling, using their toolbar, means StumbleUpon shows you pages other people have reviewed.
Rumor has it that eBay has acquired StumbleUpon. Read more about [...]

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