Recent NTugo Network Posts

The Safe-Keeper’s Secret by Sharon Shinn

Damiana is a safe-keeper. Villagers of Tambleham and outsiders come to her to share the burden of their secrets knowing she is bound to keep the secrets safe. While she is giving birth to her own child, the King’s Safe-Keeper delivers a secret to her doorstep- a child. The two children [...]

Tempus Fugit

Tempus Fugit, or “Time Flies” in Latin, is a very appropriate thing to say now. Lately, I’ve been busy. Since getting back from a bowling tournament out of town (don’t ask what my scores were…), I’ve been busier than ever. In addition to blogging every day, I’ve had a bit less time on the computer, [...]

JKR/WB vs. RDR: “Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law”

The Leaky Cauldron has posted a large summary of a document recently released on the Lexicon trial. Read it here. I find issue with both sides, and still think that there should be a settlement.

“Make Money Online”: Blogging Is All About The Content

There are countless “Make Money Online” blogs. Blogs attempting to make money by blogging, blogs trying to teach how to make money blogging, and blogs trying to make money online by teaching how to make money online. Many of the latter hadn’t made a cent off blogging before starting a blog on making money online. Enough [...]

BlogBuzz May 10, 2008

150+ RSS Resources - Traffick did well more than one-up me. Why You Must be the First, in Google’s Search Results at Least! - The clickthrough rate varies that much…just between the first two spots in he results? Scary. Skribit - Find Out What Your Readers Want You to Write About Sun Changes Its Mind, MySQL [...]

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott

I’ve been waiting to read this book since hearing about it. It didn’t quite live up to my expectations, but it has a sequel, so I’m hoping the story will improve now that much of the backstory is out of the way. Maybe there was too much anticipation, since I already [...]

The Secret to Getting Traffic: Link

Forget all about PageRank. Fill your posts with links to related posts, on your blog, and more importantly, on other blogs. Don’t hoard PageRank, and try to keep visitors on your site. Send them to other sites, and hope they come back. If you have a good blog, they will. A little counterintuitive, isn’t it? You [...]

The Open Share Icon Project

You’ve probably seen the “universal sharing” icon Alex King put together for Share This. Unfortunately, it’s now owned by the people behind ShareThis.com, and has some slightly annoying terms attached to its use. Alex King’s Share Icon is “now wholly owned and trademarked by ShareThis.com/Nextumi Inc.” That’s kind of against the overall idea, is it not? [...]

When Should You Add Ads?

Right from the start. If you have ads on your site from the beginning, your readers aren’t going to complain when you add them in. (Though my advice to the whiners would be to read the article in their RSS aggregator.) Unfortunately, when you’re starting out, there aren’t a lot of options for ads. You have the [...]

Percy Jackson & the Olympians

I’ve just finished the 3rd book of the series. It is an excellent series for the 4th-7th grades. Also for reluctant readers. It’s full of action and humor and is a fun twist on mythology. Also one to note especially for boys. REVIEW OF SERIES