Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category


When You May Need Another Blog?

This may be one of the most personal posts I ever write on this site, but it is all from realizations I have had in the past month or so along with my current condition. I have not been blogging, commenting, or even reading as much as I used to. One reason is my current health has been a bit off, but another reason is that I realized what my original intent of NEWRU was.

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A Shout Out to Some Great Male Bloggers Out There!

I wrote a post awhile back entitled “A Shout Out To Some Great Female Bloggers, and at the end of that post I mentioned I was going to go through some great male bloggers that I read next.

Due to technology issues, I have not gotten on the ball with that so I would like to now.  I have been reading a few of these bloggers for quite some time and others are new friends with great blogs that I can’t help but mention.  So on with the great male bloggers I communicate with (when I can get online) and that I read.

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A Shout Out To Some Great Female Bloggers

I have not posted much and I realized that I have not mentioned some great female bloggers.  Over the past couple months I have met some great bloggers who write on a variety of topics.  I want to give a shout out to some of them for their great information and their comments.

Ileane from Basic Blog Tips has been very helpful to me.  If I have a question she is ready and willing to answer.  On her blog, she shares wonderful tips and I recommend that anyone who is blogging stop by and give her a big hello.

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Eight Ways to Find Ideas for Blog Posts

Since I could not find anything to write about today, I decided to write about where I usually look and what I usually do to find blog post ideas.  Many times I have something to write about but there are those days that creep up and I feel like I have gone brain dead.

Below is a list of things I do and places I look to find blog post ideas:

-         Keep a running list – I usually jot down blog post ideas when they come to me daily.  However, with my recent schedule I have not done that and of course with my great organization skills I can’t find the old list.

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RSS Scrapers – What To Do?

There has been some recent talk about people getting their content stolen by RSS Scrapers.  While I knew what RSS and an RSS scraper were I realized that many may not.  I also wondered is there a way to solve the problem of RSS scraping.

Let’s start with RSS which stands for Really Simple Syndication.  According to Wikipedia “an RSS feed is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.”  The purpose of an RSS feed is to allow readers to receive notices of changed content of a site.

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