Within the last couple of weeks, I have taken a new writing job over at The Hosting News.  This is a little ‘bit different beat that my usual posts I write because I am doing news coverage for them rather than opinion or tutorial based content. 

Check out a few of the posts I have written thus far, and let me know what you think:

• Terran Marketing Purchases WebSiteHosting.com
• The New Net Approaches – Introducing IPV6
• Egyptian Internet Access Restored
• Moving Forward After SourceForge Hack
• ISPs Face Possible Mandatory Data Retention Again

Also, go check out The Hosting News and look around a ‘bit.  The new guys behind the scenes have really done a lot to modernize the layout of the website and provide a lot of great content for people interested in learning more about web hosting and the industry around it.

As Mitchelaneous moves into it’s seventh year of bringing you the best of well, whatever I happen to be bringing you for the day, I want to spread the love around.  I’m looking to accept your articles, tips, resources and more to be published right here on Mitchelaneous.com. At the current date and time, you would be exposing your work to around 15,000 visitors a month and over 800 RSS subscribers.  What do you have to lose?

So what kind of content am I looking for?  Here are some basic ideas:

• Online Application Reviews or Tips
• Desktop Program Reviews or Tips
• Great Wallpaper
• Web Development Help or Tutorials (CSS, HTML, PHP,etc.)

That is just scratching the surface though.  If you have an excellent idea for a tutorial or series of articles you’d like to write, just let me know and I promise you we will find something that works.  I am looking for original work only right now, no reposting content from other websites and really I want to give a person out there a shot to get some attention that has not had it before. 

Each post will be followed up with a short bio and a link back to your own website, so hopefully I can help generate some traffic back to your website too.  If you are interested, please feel free to use the contact link above to reach me or drop me an email at mitch@mitchkeeler.com.

Looking for a way to embed articles or images into your own website layout?  Embed Anything is an interesting new service that delivers you the chance to embed both on the fly.  The idea here is simple, let your visitors embed your content – rather than just taking it.

Here are a few key reasons for giving Embed Anything a shot.

• Embedded content comes with a link back to build SEO and traffic
• Embedded content is invisible to search engines
• Ad space contained within each embed lets you monetize embedded content
• Reporting and control over which sites are embedding your content

So when somebody sees an image or an article on your website they would like to use, they will be offered the chance to embed it, rather than just copying it locally.  This gives them an easier way to grab your content and re-publish it.  It gives you the chance to gain a few more eyeballs with a link or two you might not have gotten without the service.

Overall I think it is a neat idea.

So if you want to offer a new way to share your content out there, I would say give Embed Anything a shot.  I am really interested to see some real world feedback on it, to see how useful this service and tool is in the long run.

A new online tool, JustPaste.it makes it easy to share text and graphics over the Web.  This service allows you to quickly paste text directly from your word processor of choice onto the online page.  You can then spruce up your documents with text formatting, colors and more.

By using “Upload images” module you can easily add new graphic to your notes. You can embed videos by using [video] marks, for example: [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOXvdfcct8g[/video].

There really isn’t much more to say – it is a simple tool that gets the job done. Two other features worth mentioning are:

• Easily Export to PDF
• Easily Import from MS Word

Also, each page can be assigned a custom name, such as justpaste.it/anything.

So if you are looking for a tool to help you quickly share your writings with others, JustPaste.it is the way to go.

Download Vol 6 Issue #3 of Ping! Zine (.pdf)

If you did not get the paperback copy of the magazine, you can also pick up the digital version from PingZine.com.  If you want to get the paperback version of the magazine for free, check out this special subscription offer from WebHostingShow.com.

In this issue I tackled moving from web host to web host.  What you need to do before, during and after the transition when changing web hosting companies.

+ Download the PDF Version of Ping! Zine Vol 6. Issue #2

This is a ‘bit of a good surprise (well it was for me at least). Just found out that the latest edition of Ping! Zine should be in your mail boxes soon and I’ll have two featured articles inside. Be sure to look out for The Web Hoster’s Tool Belt and Firefox for Webmasters while reading this month’s edition. If you don’t have a subscription, you can always pick up the free digital version over at pingzine.com.

Lockergnome’s Web Developers
20 Articles in a Month / 6,000 Words in a Month
I would estimate that I write around 300 words per article and I write five articles a week, so that ends up being around, well… a big number. Never realized I go on and on about Web development issues that much!

Lockergnome’s Windows Fanatics
8 Articles in a Month / 2,200 Words in a Month
Here I do 2 articles a week, with around 250 to 300 words per article. For argument’s sake, lets just call it 275. Loads of good freeware reviews there.

Mitchelaneous
20 Articles in a Month / 6,000 Words in a Month
On this fine Web site I do around 5 articles a week at around 300 words per article. Very similar with my numbers for Lockergnome’s Web Developers.

The Web Hosting Show
20 Articles in a Month / 7,000 Words in a Month
Sure, this is my podcast – but there are still a lot of show notes and posts to make. Here I would raise the average length per post to be around 350 per article with 5 posts per week for the hosting podcast.

Firefox Facts
20 Articles in a Month / 5,000 Words in a Month
This one might be a little lower than average since the posts are kind of simple and “quick tips”. At Firefox Facts I try to post 5 times a week and the word count comes in at around 250 per post.

Lunartics
4 Articles in a Month / 1,200 Words in a Month
This is the 1 place I write the least at. When doing my best, I try to have a least 1 post a week (even though I have missed the past 2 weeks because I have been so busy). That 1 post per week is around 300 words.

So what do the final numbers say about how much I go on and on about the topics I like to write about?

In 1 Month I Write 32,800 Words.
In 1 Month I Write 92 Articles or Posts.

In 1 Year I Write 393,600 Words.
In 1 Year I Write 1,104 Articles or Posts.

If the average number of words per page in a book is 250, and the average number of pages per book is 300 then the average book has 75,000 words. With that being said, I will write the equivalent of a little over 5 books (5.348 to be exact) in the span of 1 year. What is your digital footprint? How many books could you have written out of your blogging ways?

Marketing is one of the things Online that just fascinates me to no end. I love watching it. I love studying it. I love putting it to practice for myself when I can. The truth of the matter is though is that a lot of people out there are either scared of it or intimidated by it. There should be nothing to fear about marketing. It is just the practice of getting yourself out there to the public.

Since there has been a lot of marketing talk here lately, I figured I would chime in. So to help those out there that might fear the practice of marketing, or who might need marketing practice I figured I would put together a do it yourself guide.

+ Check Out the Rest of My Article at Lunartics!

1. “Simplicity is the New Spaghetti” for Both Google and You
Google co-founder Sergey Brin says that success will come from simplicity. Nicholas Carr calls simplicity the new spaghetti and tries to consolidate Google’s many, many products into 5 categories (web presence, web office, content sharing, ad platform and search platform) – because 5 is the magic number; Eric Schmidt says that’s as many as most people can remember.

2. Whois Search in Your Taskbar
Now it is not very often that I find a free download for the Web hosts and Web hosting clients to use out there. Sure you have your FTP clients and log analyzers, but I have something for you that is even better than that. How would you like to do simple and quick Whois searches from your taskbar? That is what Project Whois promises to deliver.

3. Introduction to SEO
For my first blog I would like to start with the basics of SEO. For anyone who knows little or nothing about SEO you might find this helpful and for those who do know about SEO, stay tuned as I will be giving more tips and tricks to help you dominate your industry.

Have any other web hosting posts that caught your eye but did not catch mine?