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I use Flock. One reason is that some plugins I would have to install are built in. Another is that Flock doesn’t use Live Bookmarks. The last time I checked, you couldn’t shut these off in Firefox. This post should show you how to make it run a bit faster.
So if you bookmark a site in Firefox and the site happens to have a feed, it’s coming along whether you like it or not. And Firefox will periodically update the feed at the expense of performance.
I meant to get this up for Christmas day, but then I just stayed off the computer and internet all together, which I think was a good choice.
Here is where 4% of our Christmas batteries went to. It was a toy we bought at the last minute and was a hit. And now, for the most part, he sings songs from the BackYardigans:
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A feed reader is supposed to speed things up. You don’t have to visit the blog to read what’s been published.
That’s how mine started and somehow I have managed to collect over 2000 feeds which I have categorized along the way:
“You can’t comment on that post. It’s two months old. It will look like spam.”
“Damn! A year old, can’t like that one. It is so last year.”
“Shoot! That software looks a lot better than the program I am currently using. Time to try it even though I have only used the other program for a week.”
Over the last weekend I downloaded some desktop meta-search software. I haven’t used software like this in a few years, ever since Google got a bit better at finding the sites I needed. What it does is grab the search results from multiple search engines at the same time and present them to you.
Your duties as a blogger may get confusing after a bit. Initially, you may have started with a simple plan of posting every day and leaving 10 comments on other blogs each day. My little trip into blogging started that easily.
Eventually you will run into a lot of things that may help your blog and you will try them out. I did that also. Wow, a little bit of extra work can go a long way.
I remember starting out with Twitter a few months ago. I had made fun of it up to that. Had no use for it. But then I read an interview of a blogger, can’t remember who know. And he said that joining Twitter was the best thing he ever did to promote his blog.
So I decided to give it a try. It took a while. The “What are you doing?” question is very deceptive. If all of your 140 character tweets answer this same question, you are missing out on some valuable uses: brain farts, things found online, blog post notices, pet peeves and the list goes on.
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