Custom Blog templates

There are hundreds of ads for custom blog templates on the web…here are a few I found:

http://madebymadeline.blogspot.com/2007/03/custom-design-portfolio.html
http://www.eightcrazydesign.com/

Blogs without topics are a waste of time….

Or so says Penelope Trunk. Read more here. She writes that you can write about any topic, but you have to link it to your focus.

Make it worth their time. What is the focus of my blog? How to write a better blog and use it as a marketing tool to showcase my skills to employers.

Blogs I like

Some of the blogs I check out on a regular basis are:

The Huffington Post

Political news and commentary. Check out this recent article on quitting your day job..

Metafilter

A community weblog on subjects that users thought interesting enough to share with the rest of the us. It's a diverse compendium of  useful and useless knowledge and is always entertaining.

UnderConsideration

Dedicated to the progress of the graphic design profession and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts.

Seth Godin’s Blog

Here is an excerpt from his 3000th post. “Of course, given the lack of ads here, traffic isn’t the goal, spreading ideas is. With that in mind, if you’d like to celebrate this milestone (there won’t be another like it for three years or so) please go ahead and start a blog. If you already have a blog, please go ahead and post something really interesting today.”

Amen to that.

Blogopolis

Finally figured out how to change the title of my blog from my user name to Blogopolis. The interface for WordPress is different than I am used to for Blogger.

My first post for WebMM 109

Here I am blogging.  I decided to try WordPress, because I have another blog on Blogger. It’s fun having a place to post what I’m learning about Social Media. I added a picture I took at the airport….