Who to be productive with blog

web worker daily

Web Worker Daily gives 10 ways be productive with your blog. Well there are two which I like more than others:

8. Force yourself to do research. A lot of time I will procrastinate on research for as long as possible. But when it comes time to write a blog post about something, I am forced to do that research so that I can write about it in the post. That’s good incentive, and you can accomplish a lot more research if you post every day or at least a few times a week on your blog.

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9. Become a life-long learner. Ever have something you want to learn about? Well, do a series of posts (or an entire blog) on that topic. Writing about it every day will force you to learn it well enough to explain — the best method of learning there is. In this way, you can teach yourself dozens of subjects about which you would otherwise be ignorant.

I try to follow by those suggestions when I post about something in my blogs. And it really help me find more information then I get from the original source.

Be part of Twitter Mosaics

Twitter Mosaik

Twitter is extremely interesting thing in the web world. It can be used both for fun and for serious tasks such home automation. Today I discovered another its application – mosaics. On Twitter Mosaic you may find cool stuff created from Twitter users icons. So, if you use Twitter you can add Twitter Mosaic as a friend and your icon will be presented on the future canvases 🙂

Track the web with Listio

Listio

If you’re web geek you might be interested to see all Web applications in one place. New web 2.0 project – Listio offers you that possibility. You can find application by category or rating, read info, vote and so on.

Listio might be interesting also for web application owners. There is a possibility to add your product into catalog and it will be definitely good promotion for your service. So, everybody should find Listio useful 🙂

[via Web Worker Daily]

Keep your notes online

Since we’re using Internet actively we try to move our stuff on-line. Here is a list of seven web-based applications to store notes on-line:

At the beginning I tried to use Google Notebook but I found it too complicated and uncomfortable for such simple task as storing notes. The second was Notefish. I still use it and don’t want to move somewhere else.

[via Web Worker Daily]

Check your popularity with popuri.us

pop

Here is a new, useful service – popuri.us. It gets information from several places – Alexa and Google; backlink numbers from the likes of Google, Live Search and Yahoo; bookmark numbers from del.icio.us; and subscriber numbers from Bloglines and displays it on one page. Sure this service is a good example of Web 2.0 technology. Have a look it and have fun 🙂

[via Lifehacker]

FJAX: Ajax with Flash

Ajax is a standart de-facto for Web 2.0 applications. Using Ajax technology it’s possible to create a flexible and handy web-based user interface. But the computer world is not at a standstill. The new web technology is coming: FJAX. FJAX is a Flash-based implementation of Ajax:

Fjax uses the Flash Player to load a 1 pixel by 1 pixel transparent SWF to simply get XML from the server. Once it has the XML, it parses it into HTML and then lets JavaScript know it’s ready. JavaScript then gets the HTML from Flash and DHTMLs it into the web page — it uses JavaScript to write (X)HTML/CSS onto the page.

I also started to use Ajax. I didn’t develop something serious yet. But that’s down the road 🙂

[via O’Reilly Radar]