It is said that there are over 70,000,000 blogs in existence.

The Million Blog List is an experiment to see how long it will take to get 1,000,000 blogs to list themselves on their site. Will it work? Probably. The experiment is to see how long will it take. The Million Blog List project started April 10th, 2008.

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If nothing else, it’s an easy way to get one more link to your blog.

TysTips is blog #2076!

Popularity: 19% [?]

ScribeFire is a handy blog publishing too available for those of us who use Firefox for browsing. This Firefox Add-on supports the following blogging platforms:

• Wordpress
• Movable Type
• Drupal
• Textpattern
• Roller
• Meta Weblog API
• Blogger

For example, let’s say you want to write a post about Coffee chains and you have multiple tabs open (one for Starbucks, Tully’s, MoxieJava, and Seattle’s Best). With Scribefire you can switch between the tabs for each coffee company, copy text and images directly into the Scribefire editor, format, edit, and publish the post - all without ever logging into your blog.

To put it another way, if you’re an “alt-tabber” like I used to be, you probably open your blog in one Firefox window, and open the web pages you’re using for your topic research in other Firefox windows. That way you can quickly switch between the research pages you have open and the blog post you are writing using alt-tab. With Scribefire you don’t have to do that anymore.

You can setup Scribefire so it opens in a new window, new tab, or perhaps most useful - in a split screen mode with the editor located at the bottom of your browser window.

You can drag in photos, copy and paste text, and even insert Youtube video quickly and easily.

Another nice perk you’ll find with using Scribefire is the fact that you can use it to ping some or all of the following sites:

• Technorati
• Weblogs
• Blo.gs
• Blogrolling
• Icerocket

This ensures that each of these sites know right away that you’ve posted new content to your blog.

One final interesting feature of Scribefire is the “blog this page” option that allows you to highlight content, right click, and select “blog this page”. Doing so pasts the content directly into your Scribefire window where you can quickly tweek the content and post it. Pretty slick!

If you’re using Scribefire already, leave a comment about some of the features you find most useful. Since I’m a new user, I’m sure there are plenty of features that I’ve yet to discover.

Popularity: 22% [?]

I discovered this TechToo over at JoeTech and couldn’t resist posting and linking to it just for fun. Joe also pointed out that there is a Geeky Tattoo pool on Flickr!

If you have a geeky tattoo, post it to Joe’s site. I’m also going to start a TechToo post over at Snigit.com, a great photo sharing site. Check it out! You can post your Geeky tattoo’s at Snigit.com too, if you like. You don’t even have to sign up to do it!

Popularity: 29% [?]

E-mail spiders have become a full-blown epidemic (er… infestation?) on the web, crawling sites and collecting email addresses for evil spammers. Fortunately there are a number of ways you can protect yourself.

The number one thing you can do to prevent your address from being harvested is to not provide it to your visitors at all. Unfortunately, this isn’t practical for most people. Visitors generally feel a site is more reputable if contact information has been provided.

If you feel you must provide your email address to visitors, here are a few methods to secure your address, as well as a few methods to avoid.

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Popularity: 98% [?]

One of the most popular plugins out there for WordPress is the Popularity Contest Plugin by Alex King. This plugin ranks the popularity your posts by pageviews, trackbacks, comments, etc and displays a popularity value at the bottom of the post.

It also allows you to put a list of “Most Popular Posts” on your sidebar.

Unfortunately, WordPress 2.5.1 users get a fatal error when trying to activate the plugin. The good news is, it’s a fairly easy fix, especially if you were using the plugin in a previous version of WordPress. If you weren’t using the plugin before upgrading or installing WordPress 2.5.1, the fix is a bit more involved, but still doable. Please note, this fix isn’t my own. I learned about it here. I’ve rewritten the steps to hopefully provide a clear step-by-step account of the process (complete with screenshots for those of us who like pictures).

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Popularity: 100% [?]