http://huffingtonpost.com
Arianna Huffington (born Arianna Stassinopoulos, on July 15, 1950) is an author and nationally syndicated columnist in the United States. She is the founder of The Huffington Post, a online news and commentary website and aggregated blog.
http://gizmodo.com & http://www.engadget.com
Peter Rojas is the co-founder and CEO of RCRD LBL, an ad-supported free music site, as well as the founder of several popular technology blogs, including Engadget, Gizmodo, Joystiq, hackaday, Engadget Mobile, and Engadget HD.
http://techcrunch.com
J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Orange, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the maintainer of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in USA and elsewhere. Magazines such as Wired and Forbes have named Arrington one of the most powerful people on the internet.In 2008, he was selected by TIME Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.
http://www.boingboing.net
Mark Frauenfelder is a blogger, illustrator, and journalist. He is editor-in-chief of MAKE magazine and co-editor of the collaborative weblog Boing Boing.
http://arstechnica.com
Started in 1998 by Ken “Caesar” Fisher, Ars Technica is headquartered in Malden, Massachusetts. The site was independently owned until it was acquired by Condé Nast Publications in May 2008.
http://lifehacker.com
Gina Trapani is a tech writer and web developer based in San Diego, California by way of Brooklyn, New York. She is the lead editor of Lifehacker.com, a daily weblog on software and personal productivity.
http://dailykos.com
Markos Moulitsas Zúniga is founder and publisher of Daily Kos, the largest progressive community blog in the United States. Named “the single most successful entrepreneur of the progressive movement” by NY Times magazine writer and author Matt Bai, Moulitsas is also co-author of the critically acclaimed book Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics, a contributing columnist to Newsweek Magazine and (starting in January 2008) a weekly columnist at The Hill newspaper.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com
Smashing Magazine is maintained by:
- Vitaly Friedman,
the creator of Web Developer’s Handbook and the author of Praxisbuch Web 2.0.
- Sven Lennartz,
the owner and editor-in-chief of the german Dr. Web Magazine.
http://mashable.com
Working as a web technology consultant in mid 2005, Pete Cashmore founded Mashable from an unlikely location: a small town in the north of Scotland. Focusing on up-to-the-minute news on social networks and new websites, it rapidly grew to be one of the top 10 blogs in the world according to the blog ranking service Technorati.
http://www.readwriteweb.com
Richard MacManus is the Founder and Editor of ReadWriteWeb. He is from Wellington New Zealand.
And heres my personal favourite
www.dailyblogtips.com/
Daniel Scocco has lived and studied in several places around the world, including Italy, Chile and Brazil. After receiving a degree in International Economics and working for a year within a multinational company, he decided to quit and pursue entrepreneurial projects on the Internet.
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Sources: WIKIPEDIA, fickr, and their respective blogs
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Adding a subscribe by email form at the end of each post can boost your email subscription. This tutorial helps in adding a subscribe by email form at the end of every post. This tutorial aims at making a form similar to Daily Blog Tips. You need to have a FeedBurner account. I have already guest posted to about creating a “Related Post and Bookmark” on Madhur Kapoor’s Blog.
1. Login to wordpress dashboard and navigate to
Design > Theme Editor > single.php
2. Find “<?php the_content(’Read the rest of this entry »’); ?>” or somthing similar
3. Paste the following code after the above line for subscribe by email form
<form style=”border:1px solid #ccc;padding:3px;text-align:center;” action=”http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverify” method=”post” target=”popupwindow” onsubmit=”window.open(‘http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2389948‘, ‘popupwindow’, ‘scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520′);return true”><p>You can receive our articles for free on your email inbox, with more posts on linux, windows, software, internet, software, blogging, etc. Just enter your email below:</p><input type=”text” style=”width:180px” name=”email”/><input type=”hidden” value=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~e?ffid=2389948” name=”url”/><input type=”hidden” value=”yabBLOG” name=”title”/><input type=”hidden” name=”loc” value=”en_US”/><input type=”submit” value=”Subscribe” /></form>
4. Login to your FeedBurner and navigate to
Publicize > Email Subscriptions
5. Find you feedId and replace it with the above highlighted in red.
6. Replace with your message in green.
7. Replace your blog name with code in brown.
You are now done with a simple and clean subscribe by email form. If you like the post, please Stumble it!
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Earlier FaceBook, now its FriendFeed’s turn to get the new makeover. FriendFeed has started its Beta version at http://beta.friendfeed.com today.
New features include
- Improved posting interface
- Navigation sidebar on left
- Improved Rooms navigation
- Friend list easier to use
- Simpler and cleaner
Micro-blogging companies trying to get better of each other. Hope this interface lift helps FriendFeed. Here is a screenshot of the new interface.
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Feeds, images, reviews, e-mails, editing, re-editing, composing – all of them and a lots more are part of a bloggers daily routine. After a few months of blogging experience, here is a list of top 10 applications which I use to blog when on Ubuntu. I have excluded Firefox and its add ons from the list, because I will making another post for that.
Liferea – It is a news aggregator for GTK/Gnome. Even though it does not offer a lot of features, it is still a powerful, fast and clean RSS aggregator. It is also present in Ubuntu repository. Powerful, fast and clean are main reasons why I use Ubuntu in first place. And, I avoid KDE applications under Gnome, therefore Liferea is good choice to do all my feeding.
GNOME Do – Don’t Search, Do! It is not just a launcher. Send emails and IMs, play music, ssearch the web, and launch applications too. It is just a killer application in my opinion. I am so addicted to it that once, I pressed Win+Space to lower my air conditioner’s temperature.
Filezilla – FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface. If you have a self hosted blog, a FTP Client is a must. It can do all the work which is expected of a good FTP-Client. Filezilla is open-source and cross platform. I use it on windows too.
Virtual Box 2.0 – As I try a lot of various linux distributions, a very productive way of doing it is through virtualization. And for it, I consider Virtual Box, the best option. To run Virtual Box 2.0 on Ubuntu, here is the installation guide. I also use it virtualize Windows XP.
CheckGmail – I use my Gmail ID for for every purpose. Getting emails on desktop as they arrive is far more productive than checking Gmail account everyday. This make me instantly reply to comments which I get on my blog.
Gimp + Inkscape Combo – The combo is a blessing for open source community. I do all my image editing with the G+I combo. Earlier I was used to Photoshop but when I switched Ubuntu, Gimp and Inkscape were the ways to go. Till now ,there isn’t a thing which I could do on Photoshop and could not do it with Gimp.
KompoZer – Although, KompoZer is a complete Web Authoring System but I only use it for creating static content for my blog using its WYSIWYG web page editing capabilities.
Pidgin + Plugins – The list is almost uncomplete without Pidgin. Every body have buddies bloggers or non-bloggers, connect with your buddies via Pidgin. Here is list of must have plug-ins from lifehacker.
Twitux – Twitux is a lightweight client for the twitter messaging service, featuring timeline auto updating, a tray area icon and notification of new messages. Since, Adobe Air hasn’t released its final version for Linux, I would stay with Twitux for now.
Rythmbox – What a better way to keep you going than music? And for music on Ubuntu, I love Ubuntu’s own Rythmbox. Always on during my blogging sessions(and when I am not blogging too).
And the final addition to my list (10+1) would be pen and paper. I still use the traditional pen & paper to draft my posts.
Apart from the above list I wished I could use Adobe Air applications. Another, application that I am trying to find is for Screencasts. I have not mentioned any blog writing tools because I find it easier to post my blogs directly.
What applications do you use for blogging? Or suggest me better applications that I am already using.
Note : Apart from Virtual Box 2.0, all the other applications can be found in Ubuntu repository.
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It took me almost 2 days to put up yabBLOG and to make it functional. It was just like putting up Lego blocks. On September 31st i finally decided to open my personal blog yabBLOG. I would like to share my experience of the last two days from choosing the domain registrar till choosing and customizing the wordpress theme.
Domain registrar and Web host – My previous site GeekAdda was registered and hosted by hostican. Primarily because it was cheap and i had no idea about all this at that time. This time for domain registrar i picked godaddy. Although, i picked godaddy for web hosting too but only for 2 months, since i have heard not so good about godaddy’s webhosting. I will be moving to faster web host after that.
Backend – Although, i have been working with joomla(cms) for quite a some time now for my other site GeeKAdda, but i have never been familiar to wordpress. And for a kind of person i am, i could not keep myself from trying it.
WordPress – So, after i successfully installed wordpress, i logged into the dashboard of wordpress. And yes i should mention that it was quite simple and easy to work my way around. Even more easier if you familiar with codes.
With the help of my friend Madhur Kapoor who blogs at Whoismadhur, who gave me a list of valuable plugins he uses at it blog. I was able to create sitemaps, manage ads, etc without any hassle.
I also took a lot of inspiration from Keshav’s blog at Fabworker. All those who have visited his site might have noticed that we use same theme Arthemia theme by Michael Jubel. And since i wanted not look same as Fabworker, i started to play around a bit with the theme. You can see the results, yourself. I changed the Headline, Featured and Category pngs. I also played around with the font and default colors.
Another site worth mentioning is Daily Blogging Tips from where i got many useful tips for blogging.
I would be sharing more of my blogging experience with all of you, so keep visting yabBLOG.
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Hello world!
This is Kumar Saurav, a 23 old guy from india. I am computer engineer by profession. I will be blogging about technology at yabBLOG. Being computer engineer by profession i come across various interesting articles, how-tos, news, etc about technology. I promise all you readers that i will not post anything which i do not put test into.
yabBLOG is “yet another blogger’s blog” but you get only the best here.
By this “Hello world!” post i declare yabBLOG open.
Image Credit : ~IgorLaptev