Now anyone can create their own WordPress Widgets! This really rocks. Use it to create your own custom wordpress widgets.

There are many WordPress plugins that should be converted into sidebar widgets, made compatible with the Automattic Widget Plugin, but, for whatever reason, have not yet been converted. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a generic way to call other plugins from within a sidebar widget? Now there is! Introducing…. Widgetize Anything!

Basically, it works just like the built-in text widgets, except that it allows you to put in PHP code into the body of the widget.

Originally posted on November 30, 2006 @ 5:37 pm

Thord’s New Publication BloggerTalks has a great interview with Mike Rundle up.

The interesting thing I noticed was the talk of the next 9rules entitled 9rules live. Mike opens up questioning over at the 9rules blog. Feel free to jump over there and over some helpful insights on how to build up the 9rules brand.

I’m excited to see how many sites 9rules brings into the fold and how it effect their growth. Following that evolving Blog Community is always fun. Even if I tend to get a bit snarky.

Keep up the good work Mike, and crew.

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Originally posted on November 19, 2006 @ 7:23 am

Recently, I was chastised by a few friends. Mostly because they don’t understand what I’ve been doing the last year. In their view I’m a scattered brained chump who jumps around a lot. And truthfully that’s the honest god awful truth.

I’ve travelled to 10 major cities, I’ve held down multiple occupations, and I’ve lived from luxury to poverty twice backwards sometimes fully sober, sometimes fully drunk.

The Year 2006 Was About Learning.

Perseverance is probably my biggest lesson. I work online for a living developing niche sites. I’ve sold a lot of “underperformers” that later went on to become big earners. One of my sites I’ve sold recently was resold for a higher value. Showing me again I’m on the right path. Another one of my sites makes upwards of 700 dollars a month after I sold it for around 700 dollars. So that new owner is banking 100% Profit off of their initial investment every single month.
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Originally posted on November 18, 2006 @ 4:09 am

Stumbled on a great blog today that really hits home some principles I hold dear to my heart whenever I start any blog post.

How To Use The Best Headlines Every Time

To break it down, your best headline will have these 3 features:

1. It will summarize your actual content; not what you wish you could say or hope you have said.
2. The summary will be accurate.
3. The summary will be concise.

Originally posted on November 29, 2006 @ 8:41 pm