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This is the thirty second edition of the Blog Carnival: Blogging.

• Woman Tribune presents Blogging Basics: Time isn’t Always Money posted at Woman Tribune.
• Wayne John presents Using Images For Your Social Links On Blogger Posts posted at Wayne John. saying, You’ve more than likely seen images used as well as text links for social bookmark links on many different blogs and web sites. Using images for your social links will add a little more flair to your Blogger posts. Not only that, using images will save a little more space than the textual name of each service will, in most cases using images will also be more pleasing to the eyes.
• Rich Bordner presents 32 Links to build your blogging knowledge « The Pugnacious Irishman posted at The Pugnacious Irishman. saying, In this post, I provide a number of useful links about blogging and using social media to build your blog. I also provide a bit of my own synthesis.
• Isaac Yassar presents Changing Blogger Tab Icon posted at Isaac Yassar .com. saying, That orange icon with white B inside it does not taste like you at all, want to change them?
• Locke Dauch presents Blog Basics for Beginners: How to Make Money Online With Blogs – Step 1 posted at Blog Basics for Beginners. saying, Any feedback about this article will be greatly appreciated!
• Brian Terry presents The Beginner’s Guide to Overnight Traffic | Big Marketing Secrets Blog posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog. saying, I’d like to welcome you to The Beginner’s Guide to Overnight Traffic™ where I’m going to teach you “Seven Steps to Getting Massive Traffic Using Google™ AdWords™”.
• Wayne John presents Make Blogging Easier with Windows Live Writer posted at Wayne John. saying, Tired of logging in to a web based interface to write a post or manage your existing posts? You can make your blogging experience easier by using Windows Live Writer. I highly recommend this tool to every blogger who uses a web-based interface to construct their post

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Blogynet is an easy Free Micro Blog utility with social features. Combined with a free online photo management space, micro-blogging is a great way to keep people up to date on what you are doing or just share Internet media and links. Blogynet is also a collection of journals or diaries, photos and videos. Designed for everyone, this site includes features that allow you to update friends and family on your adventure. The features of the site are:

• Blogs: Here you can check out the bloggers and their blogs.
• Videos: In this section you can add the videos from You tube, Vimeo, Google, Jumpcut, Veoh, Revver, MegaVideo, and Godtube.
• Albums: Here, you can create your own album or add comments to other users’ photos.
• Community: In this section you can add your friends.
• Blog directory: This is my favorite section. You can add your blogs over here.

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BlogLinker is a free tool to increase traffic to your blog by making use of automatic reciprocal linking: others linking to your blog if you link to theirs. Here is how it works:

1. Sign-up to blogLinker.
2. Once registered, fill in your profile in ‘EDIT YOUR PROFILE’ and then go to ‘GET CODE’. Add the special line of code to your webpage. Position as desired - you can embed the code in table cells, center-it etc.
3. Start adding websites to your list of links in ‘EDIT YOUR LINKS’. Paste in the full URL and click ‘Add to List’. If the site is already member of blogLinker, then its details will be listed. Select it by clicking ‘Use This’. Otherwise type in the site name and an optional description and click ‘Add to List’.
4. If the website you link to is also a member of blogLinker (and you clicked ‘Use This’ when adding them), then your website will automatically appear in their list of links, hence dramatically increasing the number of visitors to your site. You can hide sites from your list. The sites you hide will be made aware of this and vice versa.
5. List entries can be edited or deleted, again in ‘EDIT YOUR LIST’. If you use another site’s details (name/description) you cannot edit the entry, (as the name/description is maintained by the site owner); you can only delete it. If you delete a reciprocated link, the link to your site is deleted in return. In other words, you can’t add a bunch of links, delete them and still expect the linked-to sites to still link back to you. That wouldn’t be fair now, would it?.
6. Configure your list’s look if you want in ‘FORMAT YOUR LIST’. The results will appear on your webpage. Just click ‘Reload’/'Refresh’ to see the changes.
7. People can add their site to your list by clicking a link at the bottom of your list in your webpage. Of course the link will be reciprocated, further promoting your site.

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HelloTxt is a service that allows you to update your status various services, such as Facebook and Twitter, simultaneously and instantaneously. As you engage with more and more networks, it becomes difficult to maintain meaningful involvement with any of them. People need a way to communicate with all of their networks at once, and HelloTxt solves this problem. With HelloTxt you can post your status once and have it appear automatically on all of your networks, allowing you to keep all of your friends up to date with ease. It also lets you read your friends’ updates from main microblogging and social networks all at once. You can update your status on the website, or using email or even from your mobile phone. You can also embed photos and video right into your status updates. And of course your personal data is encrypted and highly protected at all times. To select the service just visit the Dashboard and add the services to which you want to send the message, add the login data and click “send”. Social Services Available with HelloTxt: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Pownce, Jaiku, blinko, Bebo, Linkedin, Hi5, Tumblr, Identica, Plurk, Yammer, Jisko, YouAre, Hictu, Gozub, BeeMood, Meemi, Fanfou, Feecle, Mexicodiario, Numpa, Frazr, Brightkite, Rejaw.

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My map blog is a travelers’ community where you can create mapblogs. If you are traveling the world or planning to do so, sign up with myMapBlog to let your family and friends know where you are. You will be able to update your own map Blog from every Internet cafe around the globe to show everyone how awesome your trip is. You can create a mapblog in 5 easy steps:

• Register: Registering is quick and easy.
• Choose a map: You can choose a map like a country map or a world map.
• Create a place: Then, create a place to begin with.
• Write a story: That’s your blog.
• Upload photos: Then, upload photos regarding the trip.

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If you want to publicize your blog by adding services which can send an email to the subscribers free of cost then here’s the list:

1. Feedburner: Feedburner has the option to send feed updates via email. In other words when you post a blog entry the subscribers will receive an email of the same. I personally use this for two of my blogs and I believe this is the best service available. To use this sign up for an account with Feedburner and burn your blog’s feed. Then, click on “Publicize” icon at the top and select “Email Subscriptions”. You can add a subscription link or a subscription form in your website.
2. Zookoda: Zookoda is a leading Blog Broadcasting Service provider. They provide you with the code for a Zookoda subscription form which you place on your blog. Your readers then subscribe by entering their email address. Zookoda stores these details and adds them to your mailing list. Within Zookoda you identify which feed you wish to broadcast, select a template, schedule a broadcast and track the results.
3. Feedblitz: FeedBlitz turns blogs and feeds (RSS and Atom) into emails to subscribers. FeedBlitz reads your blog’s RSS feed - a computer-readable form of your blog produced by all the blogging tools out there. It then figures out what’s new and sends the updates to subscribers by email. Feedblitz automatically handles subscription requests, unsubscription commands and bounced email.
4. Blog Alert: Blog Alert sends daily email notifications when there are new posts to your favorite blog or RSS feed. No account is required for this tool. You just have to enter your feed URL and get the code for email subscription form to place it in your blog.

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Tizmy is not just a blog or image hosting site but a place to build your biography, where friends and family can share special memories. Record information about your memories, relationships, friends, photographs, videos and medical history through an easy to use interface. Tizmy is a fun, social, interactive site - and it’s free. The features of the site are:

• Memories: Here you can record and share the memories of your life that are easily forgotten over time.
• Albums: Share your experiences and interests with your friends and family by creating albums of your favorite photos.
• Groups: In this section you can create a group or join an existing group.
• Mail: From here you can create and send messages.
• Family: You can add a family member who has registered to Tizmy and also you can add the one who hasn’t.
• Friends: Here, you can add your friends.

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Nucleus is a nice blogging platform which you can use to create your blogs. Features of Nucleus:

1. Core Features: Here are the various core features:
   • Maintenance of one or more weblogs/news-sites: With Nucleus, you can set up one or more weblogs. If you want to, you can even show the contents of multiple weblogs on the same page.
   • Multiple Authors: Each blog has its own team of authors. Some authors will only have posting rights, others will be allowed to change settings for the blog as well.
   • Categories: Within a weblog, you can set up one or more categories. Each item you add in your weblog will be put in one of these categories.
   • Built-in commenting system: Nucleus provides a built-in Commenting System, so there’s no need for external commentingtools.
   • A karma-voting system is also provided.
   • Fancy URLs: If your webserver supports it, Nucleus can provide URLs optimized for both readers and search engines, like:
     1. http://example.org/item/1234
     2. http://example.org/archives/1
     3. http://example.org/category/6/blogid/1
   • Runs on your own server: Since Nucleus runs on your own server, you’ll be in full control. Network outages of centralized weblog tools won’t prevent you from posting.
   • Drafts and Future Posts: In a hurry? Need some more thinking? Mark an item as draft and continue working on it later. Or would you like an item to only appear starting from a certain date? Mark it as a future item.
   • Fully Tweakable: The way your Nucleus site looks is fully tweakable through skins and templates, and multiple CSS files. Next to that, the language used by the Nucleus admin area can easily be changed through language-files.
   • Plugins: Additional features can be programmed in so called plugins (see Nucleus plugins API) and be installed on Nucleus. This allows you to have the features you want, without having the Nucleus core to become bloated. The Nucleus plugin interface offers plugin authors lots of flexibility. For examples of how plugins can extend Nucleus funtionality, see further down in this document.
   • Bookmarklet and right-click blogging: So, you’re visiting a site and want to write something about it on your weblog. No need to open the admin area, just open the bookmarklet or use the right-click context menu option and an add-item window will popup. Easy.
   • Archives and Search: Archives for your weblogs are automatically managed by Nucleus, and a search function is provided to look up old items.
   • Nucleus also features highlighting search terms, both in articles, and in comments.
   • RSS and Atom Syndication: Syndication feeds are provided (as skins). Nucleus provides RSS and Atom feeds. Extra feed types (your favorite RSS flavor) can be added easily.
   • XML-RPC interface: Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType APIs: Nucleus provides implementations of the Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType APIs. This means that Nucleus can be used with tools like w.Bloggar, Ecto, Zempt, etc.
   • File/Image Upload: Want to include an image in an item? Open the media popup, choose a file to upload and off you go! No need to open an FTP program and upload the file manually.
   • IP-banlist: Some nasty people screwing up your comments? Ban their IP address or IP range or nickname from further comments/votes.
   • Backup/Restore: With a simple click you can create a backup version of the database contents.
2. Plugins: Plugins can extend Nucleus to almost everything you desire. The reason why these features are not included in the Nucleus Core, is that we didn’t want it to become bloated. Some of you will like these features, others will like others. Nucleus provides a lightweight tool that can be used for different purposes, by simply plugging in the needed plugins.
   Some examples of plugin functionality are given below:
   • WYSIWYG item editing
   • Statistics (most viewed/most commented/…)
   • Comments/Item RSS feeds
   • Calendar
   • Chat (shoutbox)
   • CSS style switcher
   • “Email/Print this article”
   • Fulltext-search of local, related, articles
   • Fully integrated google.com search (using google API, SOAP) of related outside articles
   • Fully integrated amazon.com search
   • GZip your website, saving bandwidth
   • Run polls, even with multiple questions
   • Trackback
   • Weather forecast / current weather plugin for all major cities in the world
   • Who is online plugin (tracks members and visitors active within last 30 minutes)
   • Comment moderation
   • Comment preview
   • Reply notifications
   • Highlighting of search engine keywords

System requirements: You’ll need the following:

1. A server running PHP 4.0.6 or higher (4.2+ is recommended)
2. Access to a MySQL database (MySQL 3.23.x or above)

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Microsoft recently released its alpha version of open source, standards compliant, and extensible content management system, Oxite that can run anything from blogs to big web sites. Currently, its not in a stable version and it is just for testing purposes. Oxite is targeted at developers who want to learn ASP.NET MVC. Oxite provides you with a strong foundation you can build upon - pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting (with optional moderation), gravatar support, RSS feeds at any page level, support for MetaWebLog API (think Windows Live Writer integration made easy), web admin panel, support for Open Search format allowing users to search your site using their browser’s search box, and more - so, you can spend time on designing a great experience. Oxite includes the ability to create and edit an arbitrary set of pages on your site. The web-based editing and creation interface lets you put whatever HTML you want onto your pages, and the built-in authentication system means that only you will be able to edit them. Oxite shows that you can build a standards compliant website, starting with design and markup and realizing that vision into a web application using ASP.NET MVC. As far as the features goes it looks like a solid blogging system. But, only time can tell whether it will be a hit like Wordpress or not?

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This is the thirty first edition of the Blog Carnival: Blogging.

• FFB presents Free From Broke Guide To Twitter posted at Free From Broke. saying, A great guide for why you should use Twitter and some tips too!
• Lindsay B. presents Problogger Book by Darren Rowse & Chris Garret–for Experienced Bloggers or Not? posted at Writing for Your Wealth. saying, A comprehensive review of Darren Rowse’s Problogger book.
• Joe Manausa presents What Is A RSS Subscription | Tallahassee Real Estate Blog posted at Tallahassee Real Estate Blog. saying, Have you ever noticed that anytime you read a blog, there is a Subscription Button that encourages you to subscribe to it? Well, I have been questioned about this often enough to recognize that most readers do not understand how RSS works and why bloggers should continue to explain it in order to expand their subscribers list.
• DB presents Do You Understand the Ranking Power of Home Page Links? posted at DB’s Internet Marketing Made Simple. saying, Learn how you can supercharge your search engine rankings with some adjustments to your site’s home page.
• Marcus Hochstadt presents Using A CMS For A Content-Rich Website posted at Internet Business Guide. saying, Marcus describes how he migrated one of his static HTML sites into a Content Management System. Which platform did he choose and why?
• Satheesh presents How To Set up SMS Blogging Using Yaab And Vakow In India posted at [ Psypo - The Human Mind Version 2 ].
• Jeff McCall presents How To Get Your Blog Posts Indexed In Google In Under 2 Hours posted at Jeff’s Blog.
• Brian Terry presents How To Profit Online Without Selling Or Referring? posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog. saying, A big question about internet marketing is ”how can one make a significant amount of money without buying or selling or doing anything concerning referrals, etc”
• srini saripalli presents Information Marketing is all about lifestyle posted at Information Marketing, Info Marketing, Blog Marketing, Internet Marketing.

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