Link Love and Eye Candy

My friend and genius designer Natalie Jost has a new site called TwitterPatterns, which has lots of free backgrounds for your Twitter page (check mine out). There are even some great “pink for October” patterns! She is also selling some beautiful brushes...

Free Twitter Graphics

Want to encourage people to follow you on Twitter? Here are some free graphics to put on your site for that purpose- just place the image on your site and link to your Twitter profile. On the left are PNG files on white background, and on the right are transparent...

Review of the top 4 mini-blogging options

I’ve got a new post up over at Wisdump about the top 4 mini-blogging options that are available, including a comparison chart to get a quick idea of what’s available. There are zillions more of course, allowing you to share your current mood and what you...

Too much information?

I’ve recently begun to see the Twitter widget in the sidebar of blogs here and there, and like this post at Lifehack.org, I have wondered why.  Why do I need to know that people are doing right now?   Why do I need to know that KCtheStickle is watching QVC right...

Best social bookmarking plugin

Sociable 2.0 has just been released.  I’ve tried other social bookmarking plugins, but I think this one is the best.  It’s easy to install and has a good interface.  For some reason it didn’t work automatically in my posts, and I had to put the line...