Here comes the hammer

Congrats to Blogger user F-train for winning the World Poker Blogger Tour 2006 Summer Tournament this past weekend in Vegas. I've been digging on poker blog scene for a while now and was stoked to see the number of folks rocking it on Blog*Spot.

Some recommendations include:

• Poker Wannabe
• Tao of Poker
• Party Poker Blog
• Sound of a Suckout
• Mean Gene

Nice to see folks getting together IRL to play some cards.

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New Blogger Book

We recently heard from the folks at Mann Publishing that their new Blogger book has been released! Here's what it covers:

"With this book, you will learn how to use Blogger’s Post Editor and Dashboard to create sophisticated postings that include images and hyperlinks, and how to change the look and feel of your blog using templates. Other topics include making money using Google’s AdSense and Amazon.com’s Associates program, using photo blogging services, adding a site counter so that you can track your readership, using Blogger Mobile for mobile blogging, and how to archive your blog. For those of you who have your own Web hosting, you will learn how to publish your blog to your own server."

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bluepulse Blogger widget

We just heard from the Ozzie developers at bluepulse that they've whipped up a Blogger widget for their mobile phone platform; here are a few details from their post about it:

• Supports HTML, so you can link to a site, another post, or another blog from your post
• Supports multiple Blogger blogs.
  
• Create a new post, or edit an existing post from the widget and republish it
• Save a post as a draft and then edit and publish it from the widget or your desktop later

Check it out!

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Do you know how crazy that sounds?

Chelsea Peretti is funny lady who likes pictures of cheese (judging by her blog, anyway). I also recommend her latest video, Roadtrip.

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Joga Bonito

Did you see the Netherlands/Portugal game on Sunday? Wow, not exactly Joga Bonito with a record number of cards given out in a World Cup game. If you missed it, don't worry, the blogosphere has lit up with World Cup fever. Traditional media moguls like the BBC Sport and The New York Times have their reporters commenting in blog form, not to mention the flood of colorful photo collages like World Cup Blog. What will happen to these blogs when the tournament is over? I guess we'll see.

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Homeless

Great article in Wired News about how homeless folks can use blogging to reach out and express themselves online. I never thought about how important it would be to get homeless people email access, but it makes obvious sense when you realize that they have no fixed address.

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Stuff to Think About

Check out this post by CJ, who's already integrated Google's AJAX Search API into his Blogger blog:

"A little HTML, a little CSS, and a little Javascript should do the trick. In my HTML, I used two divs, and a link to clear the results. One div is the search control div, and the other is a wrapper for the search control div. I put it near the bottom of my html files so it appears on top of the content on each page. Here's how it looks:"

    <div id="searchControlWrapper">
 <a href="#" id="clearLink"
    onclick="searchControlClear();">Clear</a>
 <div id="searchControl"/>
</div>

You can play with it by searching for keywords like java and ajax in the searchbox in his blog's upper-right corner.

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