For some strange reason I have landed on several emo blogs lately. I can’t figure out why. Emo blogs aren’t the best blogs to read if you easily get depressed. And gosh, these people really takes it to the extreme. I believe I was a bit emo in my young days as well but this is way worse.

For god’s sake, cheer up emo kids!

So today it’s Friday and it’s time to chill out a bit. I hope you have written your posts, stumbled and voted enough to let things go for the weekend. We need a life to blog about!

Have a great weekend bloggers!

Today Kevin Purdy at Lifehacker wrote a really nice post with 10 tools to get blogging done. There are some really great tools in that list that I never thought of before, like the Copy Link Text Firefox extension and the AutoCopy Firefox extension for example. Small extensions that can speed up the work. Sure it is only about a few seconds but if you are doing a lot of blogging it can be really useful.

I only use two tools for my blogging and that is Scribefire for Firefox and Photobucket. Scribefire helps me blogging on several different blogs from one window. I don’t have to log in to every one of them, which I found very annoying after a while. It’s also a big plus that I can search through Flickr images in it!
I’ve been testing Windows Live Writer as well but it didn’t work as the way I wanted it to, and I had several errors with it. But Scribefire really does the job, and I’m thankful for that!

Since Photobucket added their advanced image editor to their services I have used it to cut down and edit the images to my liking. No software needed which is nice. It goes fast to get it done. It’s only when I’m going to edit an image in a more advanced way that I use Photoshop.

What tools do you use when you get your blogging done?

Today Blogger announced a new feature to all their bloggers, it’s called schedules post publishing. Which means that you can write posts and schedule them in the feature, so you can leave for vacation and no one will notice! It’s also good if you are feeling extra creative one day, then you don’t have to publish them all at once.

A great future! Finally!

Today, May 1st, it’s the RSS Awareness Day. Nowadays there are so many awareness days that you can hardly remember them all, and it seems that anyone can create an awareness day if they can promote it the right way. Perhaps I should create the Dirty Panties Awarenes Day, I think they deserve a special day, or not.

On to the RSS. It’s actually scary that so many blog readers still don’t know what RSS is. And they are really missing something big. Those of you that are using an RSS reader can probably agree with me that they are a time saver. It’s like having tons of magazines landing on your doorstep every hour!
And not to forget many new bloggers doesn’t even know if they have RSS on their blogs or not.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format used to deliver information from websites and pages that get updated regularly. An RSS document (which is called feed) contains either a summary or the full content from a website.

The main benefit of RSS is that it enables people to stay connected with their favorite websites without having to visit them. Once you subscribe to a particular RSS feed, you will automatically receive updates from the website that publishes the feed, whenever they release new content. - From RSSDay

So the main thing to learn here is that you should make sure you have a site feed and that people can subscribe it easily. There is nothing worse than visiting a blog you like that doesn’t offer RSS feeds!

There seems to have been a slight (?) change of pageranks the last few days. For me it has been pretty decent I think. I won’t jump high since you never know with Google, they might change their minds again tomorrow.

We say that we don’t care about pagerank anymore, but still we get all crazy, scared, sweaty and wild every time something happens!

So, do you guys love Google again? Did you get what you wanted?