google gmail priority inbox

If you are a serious blogger, chances are good that you get lots of email. If you have a day job and a blog, then you probably get such a morass of email – from other bloggers, from social media sites you belong to, Google Alerts, link alerts, clients, friends, family, AHHHH! – that it can be difficult to impossible to keep up.

I admit that at least once I week I feel myself drowning beneath the crashing waves of an inbox ocean that often requires an hour or so of dedicated time to get under control.

Frankly, that sucks. Because most of that time is just spent sifting through emails and organizing them. Actually responding is another story. And there will always be those one or two emails that needed a prompt response but that you missed.

But have no fear, Google is getting set to roll out a new GMail feature that could greatly improve email management for everyone.

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pete cashmore endorses new digg

Yesterday, Mashable founder Pete Cashmore wrote an article for CNN entitled “The new Digg: Don’t believe the snipe.” His primary point is that Digg should not pay attention to the multitudes of its users who are upset with the site’s changes.

The San Francisco, California-based startup might be on to a winner, except for a significant hurdle — a vocal segment of Digg’s users claim to hate the new site. Here’s why Digg had to do this:

Maybe what Cashmore should have said is, Here’s why I had to endorse this. He then could have displayed the screenshot below, taken this evening, which shows the Top News page, or what used to be known as the Digg Front Page.

The checkmarks are Mashable stories. Count ‘em up.

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What Should I Blog About?

August 19, 2010
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This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Fundamentals of Blogging

I think that the answer to the question of what to blog about lies in the answer to another question: what do you love? In my estimation, choosing what to blog about is as simple as identifying what you love to learn about and write about.

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Fundamentals of Blogging Series

August 13, 2010
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Fundamentals of Blogging

In this series on how to start a blog, we will walk you through the steps of blogging for the first time blogger.

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Introducing the How-to-Blog Webinar Series; Webinar #1 This Friday

August 11, 2010
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This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series How to Blog Webinar Series

As you know, our primary goal with How-to-Blog.TV is to teach you everything we know about blogging.
Personally, one of my frustrations with the site since we launched it is that I have not been able to participate as much as I would like to. The reason is that I spend so much of my day [...]

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How To Create Your Own URL Shortener

August 11, 2010
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URL shortening is a growing trend in online marketing.  Short URL’s are advantageous on many fronts.   First, URL shortening services usually provide some sort of analytic function such as click tracking.  Second, short URLs  use less characters which helps to optimize posts on micro blogging platforms like Twitter.  Unfortunately, when you use a public URL [...]

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Setting Up Your Blog: WordPress and Your Own Domain Name

August 6, 2010
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This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Fundamentals of Blogging

The idea behind the Fundamentals of Blogging Series is to help you set up a blog and get started blogging – from purchasing your domain name to publishing content on your site.
Today we are going to begin to discuss the first steps to starting your blog – setting it up.  This will be an overview [...]

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Using WP-SuperCache to Improve Performance

July 8, 2010
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This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series Plugin Review

We all love WordPress for its dynamic functionality and ease of use; however, anyone who has a high traffic blog understands that these luxuries comes at a performance price. The dynamic abilities of WordPress are provided by a combination of programming logic and data. Each time a visitor requests a page, the web server must [...]

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Shouldn’t My Hosting Be Able To Handle That?

July 7, 2010
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There is no doubt that traffic on your blog is exciting.  Whether it be your first visitor, your first visitor from a search engine, or your first trackback, it is a great experience.  With increased traffic and concurrent visitors, however, come hosting problems.  In this post I’m going to define levels of traffic, common problems [...]

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Why Is My WordPress Performance Tanking?

July 5, 2010
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If you haven’t experienced your WordPress blog’s performance tanking, you will at some point.  More frustrating than the actual  blog performance issues are all of the dead ends you will encounter when looking for a solution.  After months of having WordPress blogs crash during big traffic spikes, I finally rolled up my sleeves and came [...]

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