I’ve been notified by a couple of people that a Google PR update is happening/has happened - and this time I’m in the good 
A few updates ago my website PhotoshopStar went down from 5 to 4 and stayed like that, but now it’s back up to 5! Must be those few naughty links I removed *cough*
My personal blog is also up to a PR4. Everyone will tell you that pagerank isn’t important in the least unless you’re selling links, which it isn’t really, but it’s still nice to know we’re being treated alright (when our PR goes up, anyway).
ProBlogger has reminded us that we need to forget about PR and continue building better blogs 
Which is true of course. It’s still nice to see that green bar in the middle there.
Some new Dark Knight posters were just released. I find it via /Film, who found it via Omelete.
I love quite a few of the new Dark Knight posters, I can’t wait ’til I can get them on eBay!
OK, so my pal’s website (WebAppers) has recently lost 2000 RSS readers, so he was a little concerned about that, while I’ve experienced a similar loss of readers - 200 out of 1300, if it weren’t a glitch with FeedBurner I would feel pretty bad about this 
It seems to be a problem with picking up the Netvibes subscribers, as Ray and I have both found out (a few days ago I had 80 subscribers with Netvibes).
I certainly don’t have it so bad though, still having 1100 subscribers on PhotoshopStar.
I’ve also broken a record here, I have an average of 15 subscribers on this here little blog Keep it comin’.
OK, so some smart people have gotten together and come up with something called RSS awareness day. On May 1st we’re (bloggers) all meant to talk about RSS and the uses for it, how it makes our online lives much easier!
If you don’t know what RSS is, you should definitely check out the website, it explains RSS very simply and effectively.
Tell someone about RSS on May 1st.
My friend has recently released a new, premium WordPress theme that you buy under a license-based system. My first impressions are that this theme is really beautiful, especially the logo (which is an image, by the way).
From a wannabe-designer’s point-of-view, the colors are awesome and so is the background pattern, I think it all flows together very well.
The single license will set you back $49, which means you’ll only be able to use it on one domain; and the developer license will cost you $99, although you’ll be able to use the theme on unlimited domains/blogs. No license allows you to re-sell or redistribute the theme though.
Definitely worth a look if you’re in the market for a new, elegant WordPress theme.
On another note …
I’m also looking into getting a new WordPress theme, so far I’m interested in designing my own then distributing it for free. Very dark themes (like the one I’m currently using) are known to get very little pageviews per visit, and that seems to be true so far, so I’m looking into developing a simplistic, light theme.
‘Ooh-vuh’ Boll has just challenged Michael Bay to a ‘Death Match’ as they put it over at /Film, which is the film blog I read most frequently. I’ve sort of been following the recent Uwe Boll news, such as when he said if a petition received 1,000,000 signatures asking him to quit film-making he would quit, then a petition was started and got 200,000 signatures in a matter of a month or so. He then insulted Michael Bay and Eli Roth, to which they responded.
Now … he’s challenged Michael Bay to a boxing match, and Uwe apparently already has some experience/skill under his belt, so it probably won’t really be a fair fight unless Bay trains like Rocko did for Rocky Balboa
OK, this video is beautiful! Love every word that comes out of this guys mouth, he just keeps making a fool of himself!
OK, so if Michael Bay dignifies this with a response saying he won’t fight, people will probably think he did the right thing, but he will look like a pansy. But if he accepts the challenge he’ll be called an idiot for going so far.
I personally would love to see something like this happen, but I don’t think Michael Bay will accept (and I think that’s the way it should be!)
So Uwe Boll’s upcoming film Postal will probably make quite a bang at the box office pretty much because of how much attention & exposure he’s been getting over the last few months. I won’t be seeing it at least.
Search /Film for ‘Uwe Boll’ and you’ll find anything else that I missed out
Just my thoughts and opinions here (I’ve experienced the StumbleUpon effect a few times).
The only way StumbleUpon traffic could be useful is if you got tens of thousands of visits from it, and you’re using a CPM ad network that pays you for the impressions, because:
- SU visitors only view one page per visit
- SU visitors do not click on AdSense (do not I say)
- SU can send so much traffic in so little time it will crash your host (put CPM ads all over!?)
I myself am also a Stumbler (sometimes) and when I stumble, I normally only view one page then close it, unless it’s a really interesting site/blog then I go and sign up/subscribe.
I get about 1.3 pageviews per visit from SU visitors, and they look at the page for 30 seconds on average, not very impressive in my opinion. If I get a large burst of traffic from SU my average pageviews per visit for the entire site drops quite dramatically, which I really hate seeing
Free traffic is free traffic! I’ve found that traffic from delicious isn’t much better either.
I’d like to take a moment to thank Mr. Cow for plugging my design services over at his blog. So far it’s brought me a few new clients which is great!
That’s all the juice I’ve got, sorry 
(I’ve got a bit of a cold)
When people go to the trouble of putting in a lot of work to make something really cool (for us to use for free) we gotta try to give ‘em some link love! Right? Well, anyway, G56ogle. Wicked eh? I know for a fact that Google has a heap of domains like Gooooogle with extra o’s in them, but I guess they missed this one.
The design they’ve got going on is very bright, colorful and creative, so it’s a nice change from the boring old plain-white Google homepage. I’ve bookmarked it for possible future use
Looks like Alexa has recently made some changes to the way they rank websites, or, at least they’re now using more sources other than their trusty ole toolbar.
There’s plenty of good reading material on the subject, of which you can find a few of my favorites here: ProBlogger, TechCrunch, Mashable.
Wellsir .. PhotoshopStar went from 45k to a cool 36k overnight, that is nice, but I’m not gonna be jumping up and down over this, because I’ve seen some other (unjustified, as far as I can see) changes to other websites’ ranks as well.
Looking forward to seeing how this goes (hopefully my rank doesn’t go down to 100k now!)