Tools

Don’t let the price of hosting hold you back.

One of the two bggest reasons fellow bloggers give for staying with services like blogger or WordPress.com is that the cost of web hosting is simply too high to justify the move to their own domain. I really hve to stress the point that the downside of having to pay as little as $2.49 a [...]

Microsoft’s bing. Finally giving Google a run for its money

In the battle of the search engines, Google has long held the top position. Most of the big G’s die hard followers claim it is the simplicity of the tool that keeps them using it.  Another smaller percentage will claim that they would rather eat week old gym socks than to have anything to do [...]

A first look at ScribeFire, blog updating made foxy.

A few weeks ago I wrote about ecto, a blog updating tool for Mac and Windows. At the time I was singing ecto’s praises and while I still enjoy using it, I may have just found a tool I can live without even less, ScribeFire.
ScribeFire is a Firefox extension that can update your blog from [...]

Writing a pitch that will get you noticed.

A pitch is a letter or email sent to an editor for approval of a concept. Think of it as a sales tool designed to excite the editor enough to want to read the article you’ve been wanting to write.
Just mentioning “the pitch” has been known to send writers into the fetal position. [...]