Over at Anywired Skellie writes about Using Del.icio.us as an Elite Search-engine. That is something I have never considered but will try.
The results represent some of the web’s most popular content on that topic, bookmarked by dozens, hundreds or thousands of del.icio.us users. The links are of a much higher quality and more relevant than those returned by a Google search. It also means that they resonated with a lot of people. Being crowd-tested, it’s more likely they’ll also resonate with you.
At Skelliwag Skellie writes about Cream of the Crop: Six Cutting-Edge, Minimalist Wordpress Themes.
If you’ve been thinking about a redesign for your Wordpress blog (or are open to the possibility in future), I’d recommend any of these themes. If you have some knowledge of code, I’ve suggested the customizations I would make to optimize each theme for usability and readability.
I got a Simplicity review by Skellie, worth reading to get an idea about possible changes for the better. Since that review I have switched theme but the basics of Skellie’s review are still valid.
DailyBlogTips has a post about Extending Your Reach from Blogger to Influencer: 12 Practical Tips. There are two other useful posts, 10 Things That Bloggers Tend to Forget, But Shouldn’t! and Backup Your Blog Regularly.
Chris Garret has collected 10 Completely Free Guides to Building a Better Blog.
Over at Anywired Skellie writes about What’s it Like to Run a Popular Blog?. It is an interesting view of what changes when a blog becomes popular.
One thing that strikes me as strange is how little talk there is about the ways in which running a well-established blog differs from running a blog in earlier stages of growth, both in terms of the things you find yourself doing and the demands on your time.
Learn how to Network with other Bloggers and grow your readership in this post at Problogger.
Over at North x East is a guest post by Jarkko Laine about Ten Practical Tips for Writing in English. This is a great post for those of us that do not have English as our mother tongue.
