Archive for June, 2007

I found North x East today and love it. Their tagline says “Unmissable weekly articles for Bloggers” which seems pretty accurate. I am catching up with their archive, several of those articles will result in posts in my blog. Their About-page says:
NorthxEast is a blog about blogging. Written by two up and comers with contributions [...]

I found a very interesting and useful article titled Pulling Your Reader In over at North x East. The article cover subjects like:

Text legibility
Use Pullquotes
Use Images
Vary your text
Small columns of text

I fully agree on the importance of avoiding small text size, I find that annoying and often leave sites that are a strain on the [...]

I have today moved the blog from WordPress.com to A Small Orange. WordPress.com works great, the reason I moved to a host of my own is that I wanted more freedom when it comes to themes, plugins and widgets. The move comes with a price, cost for hosting and more work, but I think it [...]

OPEN Business Club AG (the company behind XING) acquires Neurona, the Spanish market leader for online business networking. Neurona has more than 830,000 membes and is the largest contact online business network in Spain and Latin America.
At the OpenBC blog it says Our dedication for the Spanish Market rises: Neurona joins XING.
Following our first acquisition [...]

According to openBLOG OPEN Business Club AG, the company behind XING, will co-operate with the US company Zoom Information Inc.
ZoomInfo is a business information search engine that indexes the Business Web to quickly find information about industries, companies and people. The partnership will provide XING’s 2 million-plus members with immediate access to profiles on nearly [...]

Jason Alba has an interesting post, Living Life 16 Minutes At A Time, where he describes how he managed more in less time since he for a while had to work in 16 minutes sessions.
I find this really interesting, it is sometimes far too easy to lose focus and do something else. With a limited [...]

We all sometimes feel that the different sectors in our life are out of balance. One way to take a snapshot of your situation is to use Sphere of Life. You do it online and get a graph that helps you see what, if anything, that needs to be changed. The graph can be printed [...]

Work only four hours a week with Tim Ferriss has a 50 minute interview with Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek. Tim has a blog connected to the book.
The interview is really interesting, there is a discussion about time management and things like how to handle email. It makes you think about your own [...]

Catching up with LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman is an interview with LinkedIn founder and angel investor Reid Hoffman. Mercury News venture capital reporter Connie Loizos talks with Reid about where he sees the social networking space headed, as well as his investment strategy these days.

Top 25 Blogs About Blogging is a new list that is based on Google’s Pagerank, Technorati Authority, Bloglines subscribers and the Alexa rank. Some of the blogs listed are among my own favourites and in my Blogroll, others are new to me and will be checked out.
The current list is:
#1 Problogger
#2 Copyblogger
#3 [...]