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From the page: "
This Week in the Yahoo! Directory
By Jerry Welch
Tue, August 12, 2008

Well, it's been almost two weeks since we updated you about life at Directory Central. I've become an active user of Twitter as a way to find folks who have Directory-related problems, and try to help them. One of my tweet conversations led to the creation of a PR Blog category. That same day the Yeti from The Mummy 3 made a brief visit to the office. I'm sure it was just coincidence.

It wasn't coincidence, however, that we beefed up our K2 category. After the tragic news, we jumped on it and added several sites run by climbers. Of course, nature never leaves us alone for long, because is was only a matter of days before we needed to create a category for Tropical Storm Edouard.

There was also the usual activity in TV, movies, and music. But what caught me by surprise in the world of pop culture was when one of our editors pulled out her furry feet and Hobbit ears and started adding sites like mad to the J.R.R. Tolkien area. We maintain the highest literary standards, you know.

One last item: a couple of our editors, Chris and Lydia, started SearchMonkeying around and put together a couple of fantastic presentations on how to create your own SearchMonkey application. Speaking of which, be sure to add the Directory app -- it puts a little Directory back into Search."

Basic SEO tips and tricks for multiple blog platforms. Clean site, easy to read, good info.

Can we have and Aaaaamen!

down and dirty, bitchy gossip blog.

"The Issue is a non-partisan blog newspaper that provides a window to an emerging world of diverse and informed opinions. We cull the blogosphere for its wise insights, probing analyses, and diverse perspectives, drawing together a borderless newspaper. By combining the democratization and diversity of new media with the format and editorial standards of traditional news, we hope to offer a hybrid news source that provides the best of both worlds."

Caveat Emptor

From the page: "WordPress is growing quickly - both as a hosted platform and also via standalone blog installations. The rapid growth and its open, flexible approach to blog design, means it may become a target for hackers who embed malicious code within themes they distribute.

One of the reasons for its success is the flexibility it offers for customization. WordPress is built around a central engine, written in PHP, called The Loop. Every time a blog is viewed, The Loop processes each part of the page �" a header, the body and posts, a sidebar, and a footer. Blog operators are free to change these elements: They can modify the stylesheets to change fonts and colors. They can change the PHP code to display things like author details, popular tags, and so on. And they can put in plug-ins to further extend the capabilities of their site."

I'm not sure I understand it, but it looks interesting.


From the page: "A new community for artists, thinkers, and doers �"- and a new Internet series from Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the creative minds behind �oeMy So-Called Life” and �oeBlood Diamond.”

Come in, check out the site, set-up a profile, and invite your friends to be a part of this new creative community. Part 1 and 2 of the first Episode are available now on The Show page."