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Reading time: < 1 minute there may be a bit of downtime in the feeds and you may have to resubscribe to the Feedburner accounts.  We are transferring services between accounts, and Feedburner warned us possible interuptions.  We will transfer the account on 6/26 so please be advised. Thanks brad convey_source = "English"; Read More →

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Don’t get stressed about not getting comments. Like many other bloggers I too was wondering if this was worth doing several times this week. I am putting money, time, and effort into maintain a blog that doesn’t get very many comments. I am sure some of you have felt that way too. Well I gave myself a year for each blog to start turning a profit and I am actually ahead for the gross on all four of them so I am not fretting. I still am left with the time and effort questions. There are plenty of other blogs out there talking about blogging, but frankly I might be the only one who dares to say “fuck” in their blog. I thought about changing that strategy and decided against it, because blogging is frustrating and sometimes saying “fuck” in a post takes some of that away, and frankly if you want to read “fuck” free posts there are other blogs out there who cater to every corner of politically correct behavior. convey_source = "English"; Read More →

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes I am surprised these days how many people still don’t know what an RSS/XML/Atom feed is. Almost every website be it a blog or anything else has some variation of that nice little orange symbol that looks like this: Okay now that you all know what those are, the question some of you still have is yeah, but what do they do. First lets explain RSS. In the guise of K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) RSS is Really Simple Syndication. As my MIL (mother in law- in case you are really knew to acronyms) would say RSS and Atom are the same meat, just different gravy. They are syndicated feeds of blog posts. XML is just the technology that both of those things are built on. So what is syndication? I knew you were going to ask that. Simply put, it is anything you subscribe to, just like television stations get reruns of shows or newspapers buy advice columns, but web syndication is free. You click on the link and add to any number of web...