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If you have an occasional Microsoft Word document or RTF formatted document you want to convert to clean HTML–and I mean HTML that has no more than standard formatting applied such as bold and italics but no font or color declarations–and you have to get those documents on the internet, then it’s hard to find [...]

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Protect Your Blog (or anything else) With a Solid Password

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Over on my main blog I posted about my favorite method for posting to your blog — ScribeFire, a very handy Firefox extension. I also link to a piece for many other methods for posting to your blog.

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Twenty Usability Tips for Your Blog — Condensed from Dozens of Bloggers’ Experiences

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Dean Barnett quotes from the WSJ this remark about bloggers from Brian Williams, anchor of the “NBC Nightly News,”
“You’re going to be up against people who have an opinion, a modem, and a bathrobe. All of my life, developing credentials to cover my field of work, and now I’m up against a guy named Vinny [...]

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WordPress 2.1 offers “vsual” editor and “code” editor tabs when you’re writing posts if you have the “Use the visual editor when writing” option enabled in your personal profile. What you don’t see is a few advanced options under the visual editor tab that are only visible if you press a key combination.
In Firefox [...]

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Great news for those of us who often need to move a Microsoft Word document to the web and wish to retain much of the formatting–and great news for those who wish to move Word documents to a WordPress powered website.
blog.dot is a Word document template with an associated DLL for Windows that makes [...]

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WordPress.com opens up a new service - “VIP hosting“.

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I finally found a solution to getting Microsoft Word rich text into a WordPress post without losing all the text formating. Gets rid of Word’s web page ruining code and leaves the text formating like bold and italics in tact. Nice!
WordPress Plain Text Paste Plugin
source: The WordPress Podcast

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When Nike blogs what blogging platform do they choose? Nike has launched a brand new basketball blog powered by Wordpress of course. (from)

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…and for those of us who still need help–couple of good reads on blogging over at Newsome.Org
Five Steps to Good Blogging
The Real Reason Blogging is Hard

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10 Tips for Attracting More Comments at Performancing.com. And I’ve added this to my “lists of ten.”

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Since everybody seems to be blogging a list lately, what could be better than 10 lists of 10 ways to improve your blog? Probably no list at all–but here it is anyway.

Top 10 ideas for how to build a better blog
10 Killer Post Ideas
Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)
10 [...]

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Hemingway for Wordpress is a top notch theme by Kyle Neath that’s got a lot of promise. I’m very happy to see that Matt–as he commented here–has made it available to users of Wordpress.com. Looking forward to where this theme is headed.

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Steve Rubel lists Ten Blogging Hacks. Here’s the rundown…

Blog Alone or Together with Writely
Automatically Post Your Daily del.icio.us Links
Auto-Insert Technorati Tags Using ecto
Blog from Your Cell Phone
Get a Cool Icon for Your Blog
Tell the World Where They Can Find You
Meet Your Blog Neighbor
Make Money with Your Own Blog Schwag Store
Create a Blogroll in One Click
Give [...]

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Well–let’s see–who doesn’t? Paul Stamatiou has the rundown on things like using Technorati, Feedburner and other tools to boost your blog traffic. He also mentions the importance of a bearable site design and decent content. A good piece for beginning bloggers.

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Solution Watch gives a good review of Bubbleshare which looks promising as a means of easily sharing your photos without having to clear membership and setup hurdles. You can even quickly integrate a slide show right into a blog post.

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I think this applies to a broader audiance than just corporate bloggers.
The Secret Sauce for Any Corporate Blog

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Check out the myStatus plugin for WordPress. (from)
This plugin allows you to create a number of fields specifying your current status and easily insert them into your templates. It was inspired by Merlin Mann�s post about personal status pages.

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Just started using Chitika’s eMiniMalls on this site and found a WordPress plugin to insert the Chitika code right into a post. Slick.

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ProBlogger notes that Making Money From Blogging Takes Time. Here’s what you’ll need…

Quantity of content
Search Engine Optimization
Reputation
Network
Web Smarts

Good piece–go read the rest.

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Matt is Leaving CNET today. Could this be good news for WordPress and all of us who are WordPress junkies? I think so. Congrats to Matt.

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Flock–a very slick new browser based on Firefox is now freely available. It comes with built in blogging tools that make it a breeze to assemble posts and a bookmark manager that ties into del.icio.us and more. Go get your copy and take it for a test flight.

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Matt responds.
UPDATE: It’s been pointed out that Matt doesn’t drink coffee—I believe this is the last straw.

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I’m checking out Yahoo 360 thanks to the LaughingLizard at weblogtoolscollection.com. If you’d like an invite leave a comment.

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Here’s a helpful article for those considering whether or not they should blog on their church or small business website.

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I’ll probably stop pointing you to all these how-to-blog posts soon but bear with me for one more link: How to Write an Award-Winning Blog.
How about “Be innovative” - I think the big thing in 2005 will be podcasting - I’ve been considering it myself. Maybe I’ll “borrow” some inspiration from RevTim and do [...]

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Here’s and intersting and long piece about blogs at FORTUNE: Why There’s No Escaping the Blog
Via: Blogging Pro

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The new year is nearly here. You may be thinking of blogging this year. Or maybe you are trying to figure out what the big deal is with blogging. If you want to know more I’ve collected a few articles that may help you wrap your brain around blogging and get started in the new [...]

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Bob Parsons of GoDaddy.com is blogging. Too bad he’s not using WordPress.

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