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Don’t be a Jerk, Cite your sources

Approximately a year ago, I started to write about plagiarism and why it’s important to cite your sources. At the time I hadn’t read any scathing reports of people using content from others without the proper citation. The post languished in my draft folder, like so many others, until I caught a thread on Facebook. […]

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Blogging before anyone cared about privacy

Blogging before anyone cared about privacy

  People are surprised to hear I’ve had a blog for almost twenty years, long before joining Facebook in 2007. It was a small group of friends, who wanted to keep in touch, that prompted the blog to start. I’ve been online long enough that doing so was rather private. Few people had the technology,

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Daily Post: Commenting Tips & Tricks Course

Take the mystery out of commenting with a Daily Post Course Reading blog posts is a great way to discover and learn new things. Blogs can be entertaining, especially the comment section, which become lively at times. Many people read posts but are intimidated when sharing their thoughts. Your comment on a post is helpful;

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Easy Email Cleanup with Unroll.me

 Start the new year off right; cleanup your email Face it, you’ve needed an email cleanup and overhaul for too long. Your inbox is so cluttered with subscriptions and junk email that you’ve given up. It happens to almost all of us from time to time. I discovered unroll.me a few years ago, which has

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Vermont Banned from Amazon Associates Program

Amazon banned Vermonter’s from their Associates Program in response to Vermont’s online sales tax ruling potential; as reported by NPR. The article comments reveal that many people have lost revenue from this withdrawal, myself included. Reading further, you can see the thought process as people try to game the system; they can’t! I was shocked

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Adsense error 500 site update code Fix

Have you tried to save your updated configurations for Adsense, only to see Adsense error 500, changes not saved! “Sorry we were unable to save your configuration. The request to your server failed with error code 500.” According to Raining Forks (great blog name) fixing the error 500 is an easy as disabling Wordfence until

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Blogger derailed or “Where’s Waldo”

Blogger derailed or “Where’s Waldo”

Blogger derailed or “Where’s Waldo”   I feel at a loss right now, I’ve had so much time away from this blog without connection, it is like meeting up with an old friend and not knowing where to start when they ask, “How’s it going?” To make the whole process a wee bit easier for

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Intense Workouts in an Intense Schedule

Intense Workouts in an Intense Schedule Written by: Jesse Langley Most people long for the days of their body returning to the fitness level they had in high school and college. Mixing school, a lack of sleep and time with friends while eating out often and having a less than stellar diet didn’t seem to

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Make yourself known with Gravatar

Make yourself known with Gravatar

Personalize your comments with Gravatar You’ve been moving around the internet world reading and commenting on blogs. Over time you notice that when you comment a bizarre creature, called an Identicon, appears as an icon representing you, but others have a personalized image. What are those images and how can you get one for your

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Google Plus, the Latest Greatest Social Platform

Google Plus, the Latest Greatest Social Platform

I recently received my invite to Google Plus and I must say that I like what I see so far.  The Droid phone AP allows you to have text chats with one friend, select friends or your entire circle(s), you can video chat, determine what you want to share by groups. I certainly can see

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