Freelance Writing
Attention Political Writers:
The 2012 US Budget Appendix is available for free pdf download at the White House site (mercifully, divided by Agency): http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Appendix. You can also get the GoogleBooks version for $9.99 by clicking here.
Geek out!
Here’s an indispensable link for bloggers: Google’s Webmaster Central Blog.
This handy tool will keep you in the loop regarding Google’s spiders and their policies about site indexing for Google searches.
Help make the internet a better place by cleaning out any comment spam or other nuisances that might be costing your blog precious site ranking. Remember, “you can’t do what you don’t know”–educate yourself!
Scientists at the University of Leeds say that humans flock like sheep and birds, subconsciously following a minority of individuals.
“Results from a study at the University of Leeds show that it takes a minority of just five per cent to influence a crowd’s direction – and that the other 95 per cent follow without realising it.”
I see that phenomenon at my local Walmart all the time….
Here’s a favorite site I’ve been using for years for printing free calendars (hearkens back to the early days of the internet–lots of geeky, free things). Why buy a calendar when you’ve got printfree.com?
Click Here, newbie.
Yeah, so you think you know the difference between an ETF and a Mutual Fund? Me either. So I Googled it and got this answer from The God Box.
Web site backups may be boring, but they’re essential to good web hygiene. Here’s the official WordPress guide to backing up your blog (and yes, you MUST back up both the site and its associated database).
Another great service from Google: here are a couple of methods for finding incoming links to your site.