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The new Dilbert.com offers the poupular comic via RSS Feeds.

A French court has punished web publishers because of snippets of text that appeared on their sites via an RSS reader. It is believed to be the first time that a website operator has been held responsible for content delivered by a third parties RSS feed.

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Follow the latest Marathon news with the Boston Marathon News Feed or the  Google Boston Marathon News Feed.The Boston Marathon is the worlds oldest annual marathon.

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If you are like me and have many different blogs, hosted on different services and platforms, it can be time-consuming to manage all the posting and editing that is needed for all of them on a daily basis.

Mozilla Firefox has recently come out with an add-on that offers a full-featured blog editor that allows you to add, edit or delete posts in your blogs without the tedious process of logging in to your admin panels on the multiple blog hosts.

You just install ScribeFire and when you would like to post to your blogs, click on the orange icon in your Firefox browser's bar. You can post to multiple blogs on WordPress, Drupal, Moveable Type, Textpattern, Blogger and more.  It even features the ability to access previous posts and edit, delete or select new catagories and tags.

As an added bonus, as you are browsing the internet, the page content can be added into the editor using drag and drop, controling all of your blogs with tabs.  The drawback is that they do put a "Powered by Scribefire" blurb at the end of your post, however, if you are picky as I am, just edit the fresh post and re-post... Ah-Ha! No ad blurb.

Let me know if you have tried this add-on and what your experience was with it, ok? My personal review is that it's very useful for most blogs, but on WordPress it occasionally messes with the formatting of the text, so you then end up having to re-post. But, it's only an occasional glitch and Scribefire is still fairly new so this is something that may not be an issue for long.

~Erika, Tech-Goddess

Author of Social Network Mash, and author on Theme Zoom's blog

Search Engine Land posted an interesting piece that analyzes who the various aggregators count RSS feed subscribers.

Bloglines will count anyone who is currently subscribed to your blog even if they have not viewed your blog feed ever as a subscriber.
Google will count anyone who is currently subscribed to your blog even if they have not viewed your blog feed ever as a subscriber.
Microsofts Live.com does not appear to share subscriber numbers.
Netvibes will count anyone who is currently subscribed to your blog even if they have not viewed your blog feed ever as a subscriber.
NewsGator will count anyone who is currently subscribed to your blog even if they have not viewed your blog feed ever as a subscriber.
Pageflakes will count anyone who is currently subscribed to your blog even if they have not viewed your blog feed ever as a subscriber.
Rojo will count anyone who is currently subscribed to your blog even if they have not viewed your blog feed ever as a subscriber.
Yahoo requires that the subscribed user has viewed (logs into My Yahoo or Yahoo Mail) your feed within 30 days to be counted as a subscriber.

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I have just found this new extension and decided to try it out. It works in Firefox to help suggest pictures to add to any blog post.

The service works only (best) for English language posts.

Supported platforms:

• Blogger
• TypePad
• Wordpress.com
• and your own hosted Wordpress

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