The BookmarkMoney Blog

Jeffro2pt0’s post at WebLog Tools Collection tipped me off to Speckyboy’s list of Top 10 Security Plugins for WordPress. There’s a lot of good plugins listed, and I was happy to see WP-SpamFree made it on the list.

I’ve been using WP-SpamFree since about the second week of this blog, and it’s been amazing. I don’t know anyone blogs without it. I use quite a few security plugins myself, but I won’t say what, since that might decrease my security

From the same post, Jeffro2pt0 also points us to the WordPress Codex article on Hardening your WordPress.

In a separate post, at Weblog Tools Collection, Marc Ghosh linked to a post at Scripty Goddess entitled “Fun Tools That Will Eat Up the Spare Time You Don’t Have.” Her recommendations:

Stripe Generator, which is an AJAX background designer will give your website that oh-so-sexy Web 2.0 look. Looking at their blog, I came across a post announcing two companion generators - Reflection Maker, and Tab Generator. Three awesome tools to take some of the grunt work out of website design.

WordPress Theme Generator, which does exactly what it says, for those who are mystified by the intricacies of building WordPress Themes.

WordPress Pad has an article on turning your WordPress Install into a Directory with the WordPress Directory Plugin from Links Back.

Miscellaneous

I read an article on Live Science about why hot women marry ugly guys, and it’s not just about the money - which came as quite a shock to me.

For a laugh, read this comment on the story Why Linux Won’t Displace Windows. I can’t tell if it’s satire, or the guy is serious, but I laughed until I cried. It’s people like this that remind me why I got out of computer related customer service.

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Tags: Blogging, Plugins, Psychology, Themes, Tools, WordPress by Jotun
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Social Networking

Jesse Stay posted on Guy Kawasaki’s blog entitled 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Facebook. I was surprised to find out how much I didn’t know about one of the biggest social networking sites out there. I certainly made sure to import my RSS feed to my Facebook.com account. I don’t know that will make my headlines fall under duplicate content, but as far as I’m concerned you can never propagate your post titles too much.

WordPress Security

Thanks to a great tip entitled “Turn Off Directory Browsing to Protect Your Content” posted by Gobala Krishnan, my content is a little bit safer (not that anybody is interested in stealing it) today. I had always assumed that Directory Browsing was disabled by default, and found out how wrong I was today.

Black Hat

SEO Black Hat tipped me off to the article “Messing With Digg” from David Naylor. If you’re using the Digg angle in your marketing efforts, these tricks might come in handy.

Tags: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Networking by Jotun
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This is the year. The year that I do something!

This year I’m trying to improve on my weaknesses as a person. I’m determined to move ahead in life. I’m tired of slaving away in factories for chump change. The question has always been how?

I have good ideas. I have good insights. So what? Unless I act upon them, then they’re useless.

My problem is that I get easily paralyzed by indecision. There’s so many ways to do things that I’ll try to evaluate all options, mainly as a form of procrastination, until the urge to create has left me. Then I’m just filled with self-loathing until the next opportunity comes along, then the cycle starts again. Lather, rinse, repeat.

I spend a LOT of time researching ways, tools, systems for making money, and I have thousands of bookmarks spread across multiple computers - none of which fit in to the big social bookmarking sites. I can’t believe that I’m the only person that is in this position.

The article Ten Differences Between Wanna-Be’s And Entrepreneurs at 365 to Freedom really lit a fire under me, and helped me to squash my ego a bit at a time when a lot of little things began to coalesce at once.

BookmarkMoney.com is the end result of two or three ideas that I’ve had floating around for a while, coming together at once in a blinding flash of inspiration. The core of the site is going to be Digg style website powered by Pligg. As much as I enjoy the general social bookmarking sites, most of them are just catch-all’s, most of which don’t have any categories for certain types of bookmarks that I want to upload.

I plan on posting here when I see things that I think are new or notable. Site announcements will be made here too. There are some really big things in the pipeline right now, but since I’m only one guy, they may take a while, and I’m not going to drop any hints until I actually have something concrete to present to the internet.

Thanks Walt for the shove I needed. Best of luck.

Here’s looking forward to a bright year!

Tags: Psychology, Site News by Jotun
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