February 2008
Create Your Own Cross-Platform Backup Server... →
Backing up your data on a regular basis is important, and turning a spare computer into a backup server is often the best way to make sure it gets done. But most methods require either a…
Success or Failure: The Choice is Yours →
Ben is recharging his batteries so this is a guest post from Bill over at The Blog Entrepreneur. If you like what you read here then you can find more on his blog.
You’ve heard of…
Review: Debt is Slavery →
Each Friday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book.
I’ve been anxious to read this book for a while, mostly because it’s been recommented to me by a lot of people that I trust….
How to Network at a Social Media Breakfast →
My Name Is Liz Strauss
In a few minutes, I’ll be leaving to attend Jeff Pulver’s Chicago Social Media Breakfast. If you haven’t heard, Jeff is going around the US meeting folks from the…
20 Money Hacks: Tips and Tricks to Improve Your... →
“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” - Woody Allen
We had the Parent Hacks earlier this week, and I was thinking it would be fun to do the same with finances — ways to…
The Bacon Cup →
After seeing the bacon mat, this idea was so obvious that I was surprised it didn’t come about sooner. Behold, the bacon cup!
Megan Reardon of Not Martha blog has the recipe: Link - via …
How to Explain RSS to Normal People - 2008 Edition →
As a geek who enjoys spending too much time on the internet, I like RSS almost as much as delicious toast. As a blogger, RSS is the shiznitz because it lets you consume a lot more…
Buy a Domain for Email or at Least a Gmail Account →
Several friends of mine recently left their job all at once (the company had a mass layoff). I checked in LinkedIN, and it looks like I’m now missing a way to directly contact at least 70 of…
What does it take to be your own boss? →
On May 20, I’ll be giving a presentation at the HOW Conference called, “What It Takes to Be Your Own Boss.” I’m in the process of developing the material and would love your input. Answer any…
Yahoo’s MyBlogLog Adds An Activity Stream Feature →
MyBlogLog, a blogger social network acquired by Yahoo about a year ago, launched v.2 of their service tonight, with a significant new feature. You can see the MyBlogLog widget in the…
Clean Up Your Narration: Four Tips For Fiction... →
Photo courtesy of suzerain
Editor’s note: This guest post is from FekketCantenel, dreaded she-raptor moderator from the Zen Habits forums.
I have yet to read an all-dialog novel. In…
Tips for Increasing Your Financial Literacy →
By Xin Lu
A recent CNN article titled “Americans are ‘financially illiterate’” reports that a survey found that a large proportion of Americans they tested do not seem to understand their…
The One True Cause of Rapidfire Growth →
Photo by millicent_bystander
Repeated and huge torrents of social media traffic over many months.
That’s it.
Think about the blogs you’ve observed grow from zero to many thousands of…
Have Blogs Killed Conventional Websites? →
This post looking at conventional websites vs blogs is by Suzanne Falter-Barns from Get Known Now.
Have Blogs Killed Conventional Websites?
It’s a question that’s been bugging me profoundly…
Reaching Out to Touch My Microblogs →
I rely on my microblog communities as my connection to the outside world while I work from home on my various Web projects and client projects. Twitter is my watercooler. Pownce is where my…
Nora Pouillon's Crab and Shiitake Cakes →
The Chef of the U.S.’s First Certified Organic Restaurant Shares A Recipe.
Introducing the Jeff Pulver Personal Social... →
Friends attending the breakfasts am I hosting around the world during 2008 are given a “Personal Social Networking Toolkit” when they arrive. This video provides insight to what exactly is a…
Kids Meals →
School Lunch Programs Try to Offer Healthier Fare.
Green Could Be "Biggest New Market In Recent... →
Report: Business Strategy Can Be Good for the Planet
Encyclopedia of Life Is Alive! First 30,000... →
The first 30,000 species have been added to an ambitious on-line catalog of the world’s diverse life forms, the Encyclopedia of Life.
JotSpot Relaunches as Google Sites, Offers Similar... →
Google has unveiled the results of their purchase of JotSpot—the free collaboration tool you could once use to make wiki-like collaboration pages and organize your family—and while the…
Six Ways to Break Free of the “Purge and Splurge”... →
Just this morning, I was leafing through my favorite personal finance book of all, Your Money or Your Life, when I came across the idea of the “purge and splurge” cycle. From page 148,…
Can You Just Attract More Money? →
Everyone has asked this question at least once since the marketing megahit The Secret took the world by storm. People have been mired in analyzing their thoughts, forcing themselves to think…
Exploring Happiness →
I know, I know; I’m either stupid or brave to even think about tackling this topic. Alright, we’ll go with stupid.
Before I start today’s chat, let me say that I know there is no ‘answer’ or…
It IS a Great Time to be a Nerd (or a Geek) →
I just read Tom Evslin’s blog post: Great Time to be a Nerd and just smiled. Tom is right. It really IS a great time to be a Nerd or a Geek. (I have trouble explaining the difference.) In fact,…
Free Coffee: A Beta You Definitely Want To Be a... →
Like a lot of bloggers, we drink a ton of coffee at Mashable. An unhealthy amount perhaps. Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company knows this, and has created a brilliant (albeit probably financially…
When Services Fail: Relying Upon Web Email... →
How much do you rely upon services that are out of your control? If you’re like most web workers it’s probably quite a bit. We covered this topic in January, but the recent failures of Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft Live Hotmail have resurfaced the call to have backup solutions in place if your online email provider is unavailable for any reason.
For those of us who depend on web based mail such...
idea we’re psyched about: 52 nights unplugged →
Photo copyright Ariel Meadow Stallings.
Seattle author and self-confessed internet addict Ariel Meadow Stallings has come up with an idea so simple and yet so brilliant, she was featured on The Today Show just three weeks after posting about it on her blog. 52 Nights Unplugged is just like it sounds: “One night a week, I am going to completely unplug from anything with a screen,” Stallings...
Sims Online Becomes Free EA-Land, SL Rival →
Just spotted this announcement What is EA-Land? I would like to introduce you to EA-Land, a world that is free-to-play, and based on a re-engineered The Sims Online architecture. Yes, free. If y…
How to Make Your Video Posts More Accessible to an... →
This post on making your video posts accessible to the deaf community was written by Stephen Hopson from Adversity University.
According to Technorati’s report last year, the blogosphere continues to proliferate, doubling in size every six months. Technorati is now tracking over 70 million blogs. Over 120,000 of them are created every single day - that’s about 1.4 blogs per second. On top of...
A Gallery of Creative Bookshelf Designs →
Freshome blog has an excellent post about 30 of the most creative bookshelf designs. Some of them have been featured here on Neatorama, but there are many that I haven’t seen before: Link
Food Blog Search →
If you want to cook something new, you know someone out there has done it before. Food Blog Search is a specialized search engine for recipes posted on food blogs. When you’ve got hundreds of recipes for “curry chicken”, you’re bound to find one that fits the ingredients you have on hand. It’s also a way to explore new and different sites about food. And it’s not just recipes! I typed in “Leap...
Merlene is running up that hill... →
Merlene is dancing the Mummer's Dance. →
Freelancers Beware of Receiving Payments via... →
I’m a freelance web designer and I recently had an experience with a client using PayPal as a payment method which I think more freelancers need to be aware of.
Mistake #1: I didn’t research my client.
In February last year, a potential client emailed me and said he’d seen my site in a CSS design showcase and asked me to quote for a project he had. I spent a lot of time helping him through the...
Walk Your Talk… One Step at a Time →
Do you claim health is important to you–then skip the gym for 6 weeks? Do you believe being productive is important, but work only on the night before a deadline? Do you believe relationships are important, but let your social life stagnate? How do you close that gap between what you value and how you behave?
Blogging has helped me close that gap by forcing me to walk my talk. I’m far from...
Writing More Effective Email →
Communicating via email isn’t hard. Doing it well is what’s difficult. I receive between 200-400 emails a day, several of which require me to take some action. While there are plenty of posts out there on which software is the best, how to empty your inbox, and how not to check it at all, there probably needs to be a few more posts on how to WRITE better emails. In all cases, these apply to more...
DoubleTwist: Put your things onto other things →
DVD Jon built a little web-based application that takes files from almost any device and puts them onto any other device or social network. It’s basically a big honking anti-DRM machine, allowing you to pop stuff out of iTunes and onto anything you’d like. It works by “playing” the music in the background and recording it as an MP3.
It seems to only work on AAC DRMed music right now but the...
Dumb Money: The Movie Theater →
This is a Guest Post from Kevin at No Debt Plan, a blog about living debt-free. This is part of Kevin’s Dumb Money series.
I was recently thinking about my first real job — doorman at the movie theater. Ah, the days of minimum wage. I thought movies were expensive back then, but nowadays they cost a fortune. Let’s look at some numbers.
Assume a family of four (two adults, two children) goes to...
Does Certification Have Value in a Web 2.0 World? →
I was just relearning how to work with Google AdWords and noticed that its tutorials include quiz questions. Why? Because you may want to test your knowledge along the way and eventually become a Google Advertising Professional.
To do so, you need to pass an exam, which allows you to use a “Qualified Google Advertising Professional Logo” — important, I suppose, if you’re in the search engine...
trash can turns into photography light tent →
tanya takes a wastepaper basket and turns it into a photography light tent, with good results too. “my hack is a fniss wastepaper basket camera mount for doing macro photography. i call it the ‘trashcanulator 2000’, with the ‘2000’ added simply to sound more pompous.” the camera is mounted on a l-shaped plywood frame for stability. look at a sample! see...
How Spam Conquered Hawaii, and How I Conquered... →
What do you see when you think of Hawaiian food? If you’re like me, you conjure up images of fresh fruits (bananas and pineapples being the most prolific in the image, but generally anything that will fit on top of the Tropicana girl’s head will do), seafood (Hawaii is, after all, in the middle of the Pacific ocean), and exotic luau dishes like steamed taro leaves and roast pig. In...
Vision Boards: Dream Big, Play with Pictures, and... →
By Nora Dunn
As referenced to in a few previous articles here and here, you have the ability to change your life in amazing ways by opening up your creative juices and dreaming on a grand scale.
A fun way to do this exercise (and something that the whole family can do) is to create a vision board. Here’s how:
Get a large piece of cardboard (the bigger the better, but try to make it...
20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in... →
“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” - Jean-Paul Sartre
I’m nearly 35 years old, and I’ve made my share of mistakes in my life. I’m not a big believer in regrets … and I have learned tremendously from every single mistake … and my life is pretty great.
However, there are a few things I wish I had known when I was graduating from high school and starting out as an adult in...
How to Perfectly Tie Any Kind of Tie [Etiquette] →
Dress for success with a perfectly tied necktie. The Kinowear blog teaches you how to tie any type of tie from the Windsor to the Four-in-Hand to the St. Andrew Knot, complete with video demonstrations and step-by-step photos. Further, learn which ties better complement the shape of your face. The article states:
If you have a strong, angular face you look better in striped ties. Dotted and...
15 things that irk the hell out of me →
Today is one of those days. Everything seems to be annoying to me today. Here’s a list of some things that annoy me. Maybe purging the list in the blog will let me attend the rest of the day in a better mood.
crumbs in the margarine
Twitter is acting up yet again today.
people who pronounce schedule SHED-ool rather than SKEJ-ool. Yes both are correct but the first one irks the hell out of...
15 things that irk the hell out of me →
Today is one of those days. Everything seems to be annoying to me today. Here’s a list of some things that annoy me. Maybe purging the list in the blog will let me attend the rest of the day in a better mood.
crumbs in the margarine
Twitter is acting up yet again today.
people who pronounce schedule SHED-ool rather than SKEJ-ool. Yes both are correct but the first one irks the hell out of...
Merlene is thinking things just keep going my way... →
Merlene do you ooVoo? →
Email and Romance - A Survey →
Love is not a usual topic on Marketing Pilgrim. The closest we might come is covering Problogger Darren’s Rowse love letter to AdSense. There’s a fine line between queasiness and sweetness. And it is that time of year.
No one can say Google is heartless (just look at their logo today), but I’d say their love takes a certain practical bent. When you’re curious about how love and technology mix,...