From Serious Eats Photo by Lani Bouwer Despite my love for Thanksgiving food stuffs, not everyone chooses to indulge in the succulent turkey, meaty gravy, or butter-filled mashed potatoes. They choose to go the vegan route. But just because the meal lacks meat or dairy products doesn't mean they can't celebrate with a delicious Thanksgiving feast. I asked Dreena Burton, blogger and author of Eat, Drink & Be Vegan, Vive le Vegan! and The Everyday Vegan, about what she will be serving during her meatless holiday. She recommended: Festive Chickpea Tart Roasted Sweet Potatoes Lemon Broiled Green Beans Traditional Cranberry...
The Shanghaiist reports: <<With political arrows still being shot back and forth between Beijing and Dharamsala [home of the exiled current Dalai Lama], China has been panning out its efforts to win the propaganda battle over Tibet (...) Lately we’ve been observing lots of Google ads pointing to the China Tibet Information Center appearing in places like Youtube ... and even our Google Reader. Given the massive reach of Google’s self-serve contextual ads, this means anytime you’re viewing something related to China or more specifically Tibet anywhere on the web, that ad may appear, pointing you to http://eng.tibet.cn/ where China’s...
Writing a novel is a much different beast than writing magazine articles or maintaining a blog. That’s why a new tool called FortyChapters makes a lot of sense. The site is essentially a web-based app for organizing your work, saving it so it can be accessed from anywhere, and providing some ideas and prompts for how to structure your novel. The key features of the app are being able to create characters, acts, and chapters. You can see all of these from one screen, which should help writers keep track of where they are in the book and the attributes...
This is one of a series of posts in which I will be highlighting each member of the Search Bloggers list, with commentary on one of their posts (new or old). Look for this series to continue once or twice a week for the next couple of months. Meet Jeffrey Smith, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post entitled, The Value of Aggregators, Syndication and Hub Pages. Sometimes SEOs and webmasters have to be reminded that leading people away from your site isn’t always a bad thing. But only a really good explanation as...
Of all the goodies that Google has rolled out over the few years, you could make a strong argument that GMail has done better and had more of an impact than anything else to come out of the Googleplex. After hitting the online e-mail scene at a time when Yahoo and Hotmail were well established, GMail has become one of the leading services, and led the way in pushing forward the envelope. Most notably was the decision right out of the gate to offer far more storage space than Yahoo or Hotmail. GMail rolled out piece of goodness today...
Andrew Warner is an Internet entrepreneur and the founder of Mixergy.com. Tim Ferriss’ relationships with bloggers helped him reach the New York Times bestseller list with his book, The Four Hour Work Week. I recently called Tim to ask him how to market to bloggers. Here’s what he taught me: Start before you need something “I reached out to certain bloggers as far as a year in advance of the book being published,” Tim told me. By building his connections ahead of time, he never had to start a relationship with a blogger by asking for a favor. Meet bloggers...
I was reading this story about President-Elect Obama. All of a sudden, this wave of guilt came over me. If a man running for President (soon to be so) can work out six days per week, what the hell is wrong with me? As if being a blogger is more work than being the commander-in-chief? Thanks for the inspiration, Obama. We’ll see if it’s short-lived....
