Useful Stuff About Traveling

For a few weeks that I’ve been seen those banners from Entrecard and although I entered in the front page several times, I never signed up, well until last week.

Last week I signed up and at first it looked a little confused but after reading the Entrecard guide page everything was clear.

After signing up with Entrecard you just have to look around at other bloggers cards, visit their site, drop your card and earn Entrecard Credits. You can then use the EC you earn to advertise on other bloggers sites. If they accept your card you will show on their Entrecard badger. Bloggers can accept or reject the advertise request.

Sounds confusing? What about having to have one account for each blog? That’s really tough, worse if you have many blogs. I have three so I must have three email addresses and three Entrecard accounts. The worse part: once dropping cards is a good thing, I never know which Entrecard I am dropping. I like to drop cards on my category, once I have three categories I have to pay attention to the Entrecard I am dropping.

The real good thing, I’m getting to know many good sites, some of them already added to my feed reader.

Clean up time over here and on my other blogs. A few months ago I wanted to change the templates so I downloaded a few, tried them and I finally made my choice. I ended up having several templates on my template directory as well as on my plugin directory. Some plugins were just for testing, to try if they were suitable for my blog and the ones not in use remained there deactivated.

All not in use templates are being deleted as well as the plugins I tested and I don’t intend to activate .

I recommend this to all bloggers, it can prevent some CPU over quota errors (I had this in the past) and it will make your database lighter.

So today instead of cleaning my house or doing a colon cleanser to clean my body, I’m cleaning my database directories.

These last few days, while catching up with my feed reader, I noticed that a large number of blogs have on the sidebar the “Donation Option”. I wonder, are bloggers getting donations from other bloggers? Do bloggers really make a donation for a coffee or a simple donation to another blogger? Is it just a “bait”? Does it work?

If you have a Donation button on your sidebar please let me know if you are getting donations and if blogger tell you why they are donating. For sure the donations won’t be enough for a business funding, but if they really help us to buy a cup of coffee, I’m in.

I’m still trying to figure out how to Twitter straight into Messenger. I found this interesting post through TwitterFeed where OwenC writes about a MSN Messenger Add-on called Twessenger that makes the connection between Twitter and MSN Messenger. I followed all the steps but it still isn’t working for me.

What is supposed to happen is, each time you write a Twitter our MSN Messenger will update our status with the Twitter Message. This will bring you more exposure once, those that don’t use Twitter or are not following you on Twitter, but are a contact in your MSN Messenger are able to see your Twitter updates. I guess I’m going to go through all the steps again and see if I can make it work. This is a good service!!

I like to use Twitter and sometimes I use almost as a IM. These last 12 days, has I was at home, I used it more often and I was able to notice some messages coming from Twitterfeed.

I check the Twitterfeed site and found out that I could set an account and have my feed checked and published on Twitter.

It works this way, we sign up for an account using a OpenID, we insert the feeds of our blogs and each time we publish a new post a new Twitter message is automatically published in Twitter. We can choose the way we want the message to show up: Some text and URL, only some text, a small post sentence and URL.

It’s interesting to see the posts being published in real time. Great way for our followers to check on our blog updates.