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I noticed I had a few more Pownce invites to give out this morning, but I am starting to reach that point with my Pownce friends where I am not exactly sure who many of them are.
I mean, don’t get me wrong – I always like meeting new people and making new friends but for some folks on the list I think I’m just an easy number to gain so they can say, “Hey I have 854 friends!”.
I seriously think that Pownce needs a “Now, who were you again?” button.
I have been in the hosting industry for a number of years, and I’d like to think I know good when it comes up and bites me on the butt. When it comes to web hosting blogs, the landscape a few years ago was a lot different than it is today. Back then it was just a few others and myself – now it seems like everybody is coming to the dance.
Here are the best 28 web hosting blogs on the planet today. Which is your favorite?
Of course, that is a good thing. Speaking of good things – here are the best of the best as far as my favorite web hosting blogs go. Did yours get left off the list? Don’t whine. Don’t cry. Leave a comment and let me know so I can be sure to go pick up your RSS feed and subscribe.
It has been a while since a visual style for Windows XP has tickled my “I like to dress up Windows” fancy. The TangoXP visual style though is pretty simple, pretty slick and hey, yeah it is just pretty too.
Need help on using different visual styles on Windows XP?
Feeling like I should go touch up a few older projects of mine, HostingHoopla.com has gotten a major upgrade and refocusing. Hosting Hoopla is now the best “link blog” the web hosting industry has ever seen.
Has the hosting business seen any others? Shh.. don’t steal my thunder.
I’ll be putting up links there on a day to day basis, combing through the press releases and neat web development resources to find the best of the best for all of you. With each link I pass your way I’ll give you a quick description and let you sort of know my feelings about it. I guess you could say it is a kind of extension from the Web Hosting Show podcast. Just think of it like WebHostingShow.com but without all the text and podcasts getting in the way.
Of course you can subscribe via the RSS feed or even get daily e-mail updates. Don’t forget the mobile device friendly version of the Hosting Hoopla link list as well. Many ways to take in the hosting goodness.
Feel free to let me know what you like, what you don’t like, what you need and what you want. I am totally open to suggestions, just send them my way.
There has been a lot of talk about green web hosting lately. I am all for saving the planet as much as the next guy – but I don’t think the practices that are going on are actually doing much for the environment. Instead it is one big PR game being played with the public – and many are falling for it hook, line and sinker.
I covered this topic (as it relates to web hosting) and a few others this week on the podcast.
For most people, green hosting is that kind that has been sitting in the back of the refrigerator a little too long. Pretty soon though I have a feeling that either by hook or crook we will all be impacted by in in one way or another in the future. I’ll talk about it, tell you what it is and let you know what you can do to help.
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It seems like if you have enough money you can buy yourself out of your problem and then you don’t actually have to worry about changing your day to day business or day to day life. As I talked about on this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show – I think there’s something that smells funny about the whole green web hosting deal.
I made my battle with feed scrapers a few weeks back pretty widely known. It is a pain in the rear to deal with, and personally I feel sorry for anybody who has to deal with it on a day to day basis. Nobody likes having their content stolen and re-published elsewhere.
Since then I got a lot of good advice from a lot of people. The thing that seems to have worked the best was the RSS Signature plugin for WordPress.
Here is a little more about the plugin from the developer:
That’s a great question. Sig2feed’s primary goal is to provide a simple administration interface to allow the addition of a custom tagline, signature or © copyright message to the wordpress generated rss feeds. You can add any kind of message, tag, or even images — as long as it can be displayed in an RSS feed, it’s up to you. Cool huh?
After installing it on all my WordPress run web sites I have noticed the feed scraping has died down again to a minimum. When all is said and done, it just works. The plugin gives you an easy to understand options page where you can insert any copyright message of your choice – and then places it at the end of each of your RSS feed items.
If your looking for a suggestion to tame down the content stealing bandits – give the RSS Signature plugin for WordPress a shot.
If I ever lost my bookmarks I would be totally lost.
From projects to cool sites to those darn dancing badgers – I need my bookmarks to survive. With that in mind, I have been backing up my bookmarks early and often using these steps and I thought I would share them with you. When it is all said and done you too will be able to use del.icio.us to backup your bookmarks.
There are only two steps you have to take to backup your bookmarks from your browser to Del.icio.us:
Step One: Export from Browser – The first thing you need to do is export your bookmarks from your browser. I use Firefox, so we will stick with that for now. In the Firefox menu bar click on “Bookmarks” and then “Manage Bookmarks” to pull up your bookmark manager.
Once inside of there, go to “File” then “Export…” and save the “bookmarks.html” to your desktop.
Step Two: Upload to the Web – Login to the del.icio.us web site and then click on the “Settings” link at the top. Under the “Bookmarks” section click on the link for “import/upload”. The rest of the steps from here are easy to follow. Read the instructions and upload your “bookmark.html” file you backed up earlier.
As a tag, I usually use “bookmarkbackup” but you are free to use whatever you wish. Just make sure it is unique so you don’t get them mixed up with your other saved items if you use del.icio.us for multiple reasons.
There you have it. Now your bookmarks should be saved and you don’t need to worry – just in case the worst might happen to your browser, computer and/or house. Del.icio.us to the rescue again!
I can not say too much about the new hosting project I am working on.. but I can share this with you.
Any guesses? Oh yeah, its also bigger than a shoe box and smells nothing like pepto bismol. I gave away the answer to my Pownce friends, so “mums the word” if you know. 
It is amazing the things you find when you start re-organizing where everything is. I was going to move a few things out of my office space here and into the closet and I found a treasure of classic video game systems.
Once reason that I like Facebook over MySpace is that it makes it pretty easy for Facebook to just update itself. I don’t have to step in an actually post things of interest when it reads my RSS feed pretty easily.
To get this done all you need to do is login to Facebook and then find on the left sidebar your “Notes” application. Now you should see your friends’ notes and what they have posted or imported in. Next you’ll need to look for the “Import a Blog” link.
In good ol’ cooking show fashion I have an RSS feed all ready to plug in from our creating an ego feed with Yahoo! Pipes tutorial that has been pushed through FeedBurner. Now put your RSS feed address into the box marked “Web URL”. Click the check mark, hit the “Start Importing” button and you are ready to go.
Now all of your Facebook friends can keep up to date with you via your notes section. Need a friend? Feel free to add me!
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
