I mentioned in an earlier post, that I had promised Pearl a guest post for her blog, Interesting Observations.

Well, I finally got my act together, sent the finished post to Pearl, and she posted it today, along with some kind words.

Please go over and read “Free RSS Icons - Help visitors become regular readers“.

I’ve mention Pearl and her blog from time to time, but if you haven’t visited, then your missing some really great posts, at least the ones before my post. I highly suggest making the time to check out Interesting Observations.

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Well, Art has been going a little crazy with his blog, but it looks like he’s finally done. While he was gone on vacation, his router at home decided it was going on vacation too. Which made all of his web sites inaccessible.

What’s worse is that the web sites didn’t know this, and they just thought no one was visiting. Their anxiety over this caused many long term effects. Don’t worry, Art arranged therapy for them, went out and put a new theme on them, and everyone is feeling much better now. I think the final product is very nice indeed.

Unfortunately, I don’t see my beloved tag cloud.

Speaking of tag clouds, I noticed it when first launched, but Phil placed the new  Amazon “Product Cloud” over on Tech Fires. Amazon introduced a number of new widgets recently, and the product cloud is one of them. Of course, you have to be an affiliate, Amazon uses the term associate, to use them.

If you are an affiliate, you should check them out though, some of them look pretty neat. I joined Amazon just so I could recommend books when I write about them, but these new widgets are so snazzy that I may just have to put one up.

Of course, adding widgets isn’t the only thing that Phil has been doing, Scott from My Thermos has joined him in writing his “Rapid Fire Reviews of Hot Technology. Between the two of them, they did 23 posts just in the past 5 weekdays. That’s pretty impressive, especially considering they both have their own blogs, and hold down day jobs.

Hooray! It looks like Pearl is back to her regular posting habits over at Interesting Observations. I didn’t realize it, but it was the Smiley faces anniversary Monday. At least the emoticon smiley face.

Personally, I have been pretty busy this week, so I haven’t had that much time to read my RSS feeds, and less time to leave comments. To make matters worse, Scott sent me an invite to Jango, which is pretty cool. He also sent me an invite to Rescue Time, which has been pretty stable. Once I have more time to play with them, I’ll write something up.

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John Chow talks about his biggest affiliate earners - Man, I sure would like to pull in $12K a month! You have to love the guy, his contests are basically “Google Bombs for Hire”, and they boost his pagerank, all while someone else is paying for the prize that is being given away. So he earns money, and Google juice at the same time. What a gig. You can see the total breakdown in his July 2007 Earnings Report.

Review of The “4 hour work week” - John Chow reviews the book. Pretty interesting.

Over at Daily Blog Tips, there Daniel posted an article about how he had some trouble fighting a Splog that was ripping off his content. I was kind of surprised when I read, right at the top of the post, that a WebMaster World study said that 77% of all blogger blogs were spam blogs. That isn’t even the worst ones, check out the other sites hosting mostly Splogs.

Over at Daily Blog tips they explain how to back up your WordPress Blog, and mention a plug-in if you don’t have phpmyadmin.

Finally, get more stats then you could ever want about your blog at iBlogStats. eMomsatHome mentioned it in a link love post. Thanks Wendy.

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I am leaving tomorrow for some well deserved vacation, so don’t expect any blog updates while I am away. If I can get Internet access, I may post something, but I doubt it.

Of course, I don’t want to leave you with nothing to read while I’m away. So, here is your reading assignment:

Art posted an interview with me about my decision to move to Port 16 (abandoning The Bit Bucket)

While you are over there, you should read some of his other posts, like how to hide the fact that you are reading Harry Potter, Run Windows Apps on Linux, or learn some new facts about German bathroom habits. Art also posts a lot about Portable Apps.

If you run out of things to read there at Incoherent Mumbling, here are some other blogs you can check out:

Ghosts in the Machine - Sharon has lots of good stuff here. Digital identity, privacy, net neutrality, and other topics.

Homespun Honolulu - You guessed it, a Hawaii blog. Even though I don’t live there any more, I still miss it sometimes.

Necessary Skills - Peter Haslam writes some really well thought out, deep posts here. Absolutely a blog worth reading.

Thought Sparks - Various topics, great posts.

When I return, there will be a quiz.

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