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Amazon.com de-ranks LGBT books, blames "glitch" Print E-mail
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Monday, 20 April 2009 09:53

 

Amazon.com de-ranks LGBT books, blames "glitch"

Online bookseller Amazon.com blamed technical problems after lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) themed works disappeared from searches on the site over the weekend. Several authors, however, are skeptical of Amazon's explanation, and outrage over the de-ranking of the works has led to outcry within the online community.

Early this afternoon, Amazon began re-ranking some of the affected works and, shortly thereafter, offered an explanation for the disappearance of the books, telling the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a company that prides itself on offering complete selection.

It has been misreported that the issue was limited to Gay & Lesbian themed titles – in fact, it impacted 57,310 books in a number of broad categories such as Health, Mind & Body, Reproductive & Sexual Medicine, and Erotica. This problem impacted books not just in the United States but globally. It affected not just sales rank but also had the effect of removing the books from Amazon's main product search.

Many books have now been fixed and we're in the process of fixing the remainder as quickly as possible, and we intend to implement new measures to make this kind of accident less likely to occur in the future.


 
Blogging Made Fun, Fast, and Easy with WordPress Print E-mail
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 02:27


There is absolutely no reason to deny the fact that blogging one of the most popular activities in India today. Just a decade ago, posting your diary online was considered insane, but now it is clearly becoming the craze among today’s overwhelming population of young urban professionals in India. They are among the most active netizens in India. Not only have people discovered blogging to be a fun way of releasing and expressing oneself to the world, many enterprising individuals have also found it a way to earn some extra income.

With such great offerings from a simple activity, there is no wonder how blogging is rapidly becoming widespread and popular medium in India. However, while some people find blabbing about their lives as easy as breathing, the greater majority still finds it quite difficult to create and maintain their blogs. Designing blogs can be a difficult endeavor, especially for the newbies. Luckily, blog making woes can easily be resolved through the help of WordPress.

What WordPress Is All About?

WordPress is basically a publishing program that is designed to enhance the jobs of bloggers. It speeds up the blog writing process by providing a wide array of tools that makes the creation of blogs easier than it usually is. WordPress is a very powerful platform for personal publishing. Not only does it make the process of blog designing easy, it also helps one make blog quite appealing and attractive.

WordPress is software and not a blog hosting service per se. Thus, WordPress can be used on practically any web hosting service, making it very flexible for its many users. Indeed, WordPress does have its own hosting service, which is WordPress.com, but many bloggers use the platform with other hosts because it is found to be very reliable, compliant to most existing standards, quick, light, and best of all free.

What Else Makes WordPress So Great and Different from other Blogging Platforms?

WordPress can be used practically anywhere, in terms of blog designing. It is designed to be locally installed in whatever location a user prefers, whether in one’s own server, or in a hosting account. This allows one to have complete control with one’s blog. This makes it quite different from services hosted by third parties. WordPress can even be installed in one’s desktop or even on a company Intranet. Thus, the benefit of blogging could be extended to many places.

WordPress also provides for an effective and reliable user management. This allows a blog owner to control the access levels of different users. A blog owner can control the ability of users to make changes in the blog. Users are also given the ability to define their profiles for them to post certain information they would want to post as users of a blog. This helps in establishing a good line of communication between blog owners and users.

WordPress is very much compliant to industry standards, particularly UTC (Universal Coordinated Time), which provides for optimal compatibility to and with other systems. The UTC compliance also allows accurate storage of time-related items for one’s database, making it quite easy to track when things are posted, or how long they have been posted, whatever the time zones involved are. This is necessary for synchronization among users in various locations worldwide.

WordPress is also very easy to install of upgrade. Its 5-minute installation is quite a famous manifestation of the software’s straightforwardness and user-friendliness. Upgrades are made regularly, and are just as easy, if not even easier, as the installation process.

What Makes WordPress a Useful Tool for Making Money Online while Working from Home?

The features of WordPress make it an indispensable tool for online moneymaking activities. When using a blog as a means of earning income, one needs a platform that makes designing and updating pages quick and easy. And this is exactly what WordPress does. The fast page creation it facilitates is very much needed in keeping those profitable pages easy to renew on a regular basis. WordPress’ compliance to universal standards also makes it easier for online entrepreneurs to reach all target markets, allowing for maximum profitability of the site. Since WordPress can be installed practically anywhere, there would be no location-related problems for the Internet marketing site.

There are several other useful features that WordPress can offer. Bloggers can surely benefit from this remarkable instrument for any purpose that they would need for their blogs whether it be for profit or just for plain online enjoyment. WordPress can truly make blogging fun, fast, and easy.


 
Blogging Tips: How to put an RSS Button on Your Blog Print E-mail
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Written by IndiaVoice   
Tuesday, 25 November 2008 06:04


Blogging Tips: How to put an RSS Button on Your Blog

A web log, or commonly known as blog in India as around the world, used to be just an online journal where most teenagers and voyeurs take note of their daily misfits and whatnots. Now, it has become one powerful marketing device that is taking online marketing to new levels. Thanks to its easy-to-use and update-able interface, it has become the favorite of many.

If you'd like to keep your blog a secret to the world as well as search engines, it's your call and adding an RSS feed button or link to it is not necessary at all. But, now now, if you are one of the many marketers who are dying to promote their blogs, then an RSS feed button will suit your blog very well.

By the way, what is an RSS, you might ask? RSS usually stands for REALLY SIMPLE SYNDICATION but it could also stand for "rich site summary" or just about any other thing that geeks can think of.

But the very essence of "RSS" is to provide busy readers a method to grab info from a blog or a website in an XML or Atom format. With RSS feeds, readers can passively know if a website or blog, whose feed they grabbed, has just been updated or not. When new info pops up from their RSS feed reader or aggregator, the application that aggregates and allows people to read the RSS feeds which convey the updated info from a blog or website, that signals that a blog has just been posted with fresh content. So that people can visit the site for more information about the published content or can just read the Feeds available through Aggregator.

How do you put an RSS button or just about any form of RSS feed that readers can capture just in case they want to read more from your blog without having to visit your blog any time they wish to? and there are lot of different methods to finish your task to put that button on.

Go pay a visit to RSS feed sites such as Feed Burner or Feed Blitz and see the instructions on how to get your blog's feed burned and presented in an easy to subscribe form available online for free to all internet community.

Usually, the steps include typing in your blog's URL at a certain feed burning box. Then, you will be prompted to choose what URL you would like to use when presenting your RSS feed to the world and Internet in general. After a few seconds, the Feed site that provided your blog with an RSS feed form will confirm that you can give out that chosen URL as your blog's RSS feed URL for free. These services are provided as free services to everyone on Internet.

To facilitate your blog's RSS feed presentation to readers, all you have to do is tweak your blog's template or theme and include the codes that the RSS feed site provided for your blog's RSS URL. FeedBurner has this orange chicklet form of feed link. Others have colored (usually orange) rectangular buttons with XML or RSS written on them for identification.


Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 November 2008 06:19
 
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