Now that we have a snazzy new website design, we just had to make our blog look great too.
We took inspiration from newspaper design. We want you to feel as if you’re sitting down to read the paper on a Sunday morning. Hence the coffee cup and tabletop background.
Let us know what you think in the comments! And you can look forward to our first real post at the end of this week.
You can still be on the cutting edge of technology without breaking the bank. You just need to know where to go!
Here’s a list of 8 status-symbol electronic gadgets and their counterparts that turn as many heads, but cost a ton less.
I used to sit in the basement of the Union building at college writing on my eeePC, then I had to move because people asked me about it so much I didnt get any work done.
The eeePC can’t compete when it comes to storage, but that’s less and less important as companies like Dropboks and even Gmail give away gigabytes of storage for free.
Plus it costs $1400 less than a Macbook Air, and you won’t accidentally throw it out.
Instead of shelling out $400 for the device then another $10 or $15 per book, you can read all the books worth reading on your Ipod.
Project Gutenberg has thousands of the greatest works of literature all in digital form, and this site has a program that splits the text files into pages then shows you how to upload them to your iPod.
Manybooks.net has a huge library of works too.
Photo thanks to cw3283.
Great blogging is hard.
You have to be pretty knowledgeable about your topic, write really well, and make your blog posts look great too. On top of that, you’ve got to read, comment, and converse daily with your online peers to get into your niche.
Rough life right?
To give you some relief, here’s the stuff that’s made my blogging addiction a little more manageable. Enjoy!
Imagine if keeping up with interesting people was as simple as clicking “Subscribe”.
Guess what? It is.
FriendFeed, a service created by former Google employees, aims to take the web activity of your friends, colleagues and other favorite people and streamline it. Check out mine, for example:
If you were subscribed to me on FriendFeed, you would be able to see my new Twitter updates, blog posts I’ve written, what songs I’ve liked on Last.FM, what items I’ve shared in Google Reader, and much more. If you use a desktop client such as Twhirl, you receive updates almost immediately after the action takes place.
Not only that, but every item in FriendFeed can be commented on. Earlier today in my post about Microsoft and Yahoo/Facebook I linked to two discussions taking place on FriendFeed. The discussion took place independent of the blog post that actually inspired it all. For some, commenting this way is quickly becoming their preferred method - it’s much more like talking in real life than commenting on a blog. In real life, you can have a conversation about someone’s idea without that person standing right next to you, listening in. FriendFeed comments take a similar approach.
So how can FriendFeed help you? It saves time. No longer do you have to visit many services seperately to keep tabs on the people you find important - now you can just visit FriendFeed. If you’re involved professionally in a certain field or are just interested in it, follow some of the major players in that field on FriendFeed. Chances are, they’ll clue you in to the latest trends through their actions on the web.
Adding your own services to your FriendFeed can be beneficial, as well. Getting into FriendFeed now will undoubtedly earn you an “early adopter” title, and being one of the first in your niche can net you “trendsetter” status. In business, these can mean gaining a huge advantage over slower-moving competition.
If you’re at all interested in keeping track of the people and/or topics you care about more quickly and efficiently, or if you are looking to give yourself or your business a head start on competitors, I highly recommend signing up for a FriendFeed account. Some pretty smart people think that FriendFeed is a pretty big deal, and at this point, I’m not going to take my chances doubting them.
