This edition is geared more toward rising stars in the blogging or Internet marketing world. Usually, I link to posts, but for this edition I’m going to link directly to their blogs because they all have great information.

IM With Joe
He says he’s a “normal Joe”, but there’s nothing normal about this guy and that’s okay by me! The videos he posts are original, informative and entertaining. He even has big name sponsors for his videos — you’ll see what I mean when you view a couple of them. So grab a “sammich” and get some Joe in your life!

Masonworld
Mark Mason is one of the most courteous, professional, and helpful bloggers you’ll meet (yes, I’m not the only one). He has a knack for reaching the geek in all of us. He’s one of my go-to guys for article marketing. In fact, you may recall he’s the creator of the successful Niche AdSense WordPress themes launched last month. He has regular Friday Freebies where he, you guessed it, gives something away to his subscribers that will help benefit them in some fashion in their online endeavors.

TheNetFool
Jim, TheNetfool, writes posts at the same rate as The BlogFather (a.k.a. Garry Conn). And he’s making a nice chunk of change online, too, what with the likes of using “get-paid-to” sites like SWATCash and various other means. He covers all sorts of topics that are sure to make a connection with you: how to start and promote a blog, tips on what your posts should include, how to video blog, what affiliate programs work, and more. Not bad for a guy who’s still in college. (Jim, where do you find the time to study, man?)

Internet Marketing with Josh Spaulding
If you’re interested in making money online, all the bloggers posted here are excellent resources to do that. But Josh, if I’m not mistaken, is the one who has been doing it the longest and doing it very well, I might add. He has been doing the very popular Coaching with Josh since earlier this year and continues to help so many people including myself. Where else can you get in touch with your own personal mentor for Internet and article marketing…that won’t break your bank account? He continues to be a huge influence on the way I do my newsletter.

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Little Nancy was in the garden filling in a hole when her neighbor peered over the fence. Interested in what the little girl was up to, he politely asked, “What are you up to there, Nancy?”

“My goldfish died,” replied Nancy tearfully, without looking up, “and I’ve just buried him.”

The neighbor was concerned, “That’s an awfully big hole for a goldfish, isn’t it?”

Nancy patted down the last heap of earth and then replied, “That’s because he’s inside your stupid cat.”

Source: Comedy Central

Do You Think Bloggers Are Journalists?

One thing I absolutely love about being a blogger is the autonomy. No word counts. No editorial mandate. No rules. However, as blogs continue to grow as a seriously influential medium, do bloggers need to hold themselves to a higher standard?

Awareness Test

Note from Mark: This is only a video clip, so no text to associate it here. But you’ll be amazed at what you see and what you don’t.

My Sony Vaio VGN-SZ430N Hard Drive Crashed and How I Fixed It

I use my laptop a lot. I work all day and then I go home and work (and play) some more on my laptop. Sometimes, I go to sleep and my laptop is still running processes (I like to play with theoretical statistics and number crunching). I bought this Sony Vaio last April when my seven year old Dell’s drive finally bit the dust for good and I decided it was time to get a new laptop - one that wasn’t slower than my Windows Mobile cell phone.

How To Find Blog Content When You’re Out Of Ideas

Is your brain an empty vessel? Have you got a blog post to write? It happens to all of us eventually. Sometimes the drought may last only a couple of hours; at others it may last for days or weeks. When you’ve written thousands of blog posts, one day you’re bound to think: what will I write today? Luckily there are ways that you can find ideas for content that will be useful to your readers, even if they’re not that creative.

Link Building Secrets Revealed by Top Linking Experts

What happens when you ask some of the world’s foremost link building experts to dish out one of their most guarded secrets to the world in a single collaborative effort? They respond!

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Seriously, what’s up with the cosmos lately? Easter’s right around the corner and I can see the 4th of July from here. Before we know it, it’ll be Christmas again.

I love the holidays, but can someone please tell me where I can find the dial to slow things down a bit?

So with Sunday being today (at least when I started to write this post), that means it’s another edition of link love I like to call my Drum Corps. And awaaay we go!

Painting with Light by LICHTFAKTOR

LICHTFAKTOR uses light to express their creativity. They produce light through various sources of photos and videos in nocturnal cities. [Really, this is pretty cool. It has some nice photos.]

Simple Guide to Styling Blockquotes Within Your Posts for Those with Limited Technical Skills

This is part six in a series of Styling Your Content.

Monty Python And The Holy Grail In Lego

As the title suggests, this Internet classic depicts the famous “Camelot” dance number from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), in Lego. It was originally produced as a special feature for the Monty Python and the Holy Grail DVD, and has found new life on the Internet, where it still rides high in film charts everywhere - even after many years online. Enjoy!

10 Most Useful Adobe AIR Applications

Adobe AIR is a technology invented by Adobe that allows developers to bring web applications to desktop. Previously, the applications which could only be used inside a browser are now capable of running directly through your desktop all thanks to Adobe AIR. This has created a new Web 2.0 wave where the desktop is now powered with web applications and widgets.

Frost Bite: Relaxing Time Waster

Today’s designated time waster is a browser game called Frost Bite. The game’s retro feel makes it easy for anyone to start playing without having to look up the controls. You need to make your way to the top by using your grappling gun on ledges and monsters to pull yourself up.

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If you’re a member of Entrecard, then you might be as addicted to it as I am. It’s the new StumbleUpon for me. I enjoy collecting points and finding good spots to advertise MAMD. As you’ll find out below, thanks to Blogging Gal’s find, I’m now putting even more time into Entercard.

Become an Entrecard PowerDropper

If you’re an Entrecard addict, you can now feed your addiction by dropping 300 cards (the daily maximum) in only 20 minutes. PowerDropping.com contains a list of the 300 fastest loading sites that have their Entrecard widgets positioned above the fold. Load times for these sites currently range from .17 seconds to 1.57 seconds each.

7 Fast Photos

Some amazing photos taken at high speed giving you a peek at what happens when things are quicker than the eye can track.

Design Stuff

Hendra asked me in a tag about how to design a blog footer like mine, so I thought I should be sharing a little about my footer layout. Here’s the rough layout of my blog footer, with the names of the classes of the

tags.

Five Tips on How To Increase FeedBurner Subscribers

Here is a free style article that offers some pure insight and suggestion on how you can increase your FeedBurner RSS subscribers.

Mosquito Devices Told To Buzz Off

A while back I wrote about Mosquito ringtones that most adults can’t hear, that kids were using in schools to receive calls and SMSs because their teachers couldn’t hear it. If you’ve never heard a Mosquito ringtone then there are some samples later on.

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But first I want to give a “thank you” to Mike of ThingsByMike for making me a Blogging Mentor x 2. It’s nice to know I’m making a positive impact.

My Secret to dealing with large amounts of Important E-mail

The other night I was talking with some colleagues and they were complaining about having to deal with so much e-mail every day. I naively asked them how much e-mail they get in a day. I was surprised when the answers ranged for 10 to 50. I sometime wish I only got 50 relevant important e-mails a day.

Domain name search - How to find an available domain for your next website

I have had many emails from frustrated readers asking for ways to find available domain names for their new websites. They don’t have the time to look for or wait for domains to expire. They also don’t have the startup cash to fork out for a pricey domain. They just want a cool, fresh, new domain name to get their website going.

Playing with the mind’s perception

An optical illusion is always characterized by visually perceived images that, at least in common sense terms, are deceptive or misleading. Therefore, the information gathered by the eye is processed by the brain to give, on the face of it, a percept that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source.

Mime is not a Crime

Mr. RollerBlog suggested that I do a blog post on mimes today. He has a weird fascination with mimes. This may have something to do with the fact that his co-worker (hereafter known as “Mr. Mime”) was actually a mime back in the day. Or maybe Mr. RollerBlog is simply a closeted mime. Which, you know, is fine with me. Go for it honey - reach for the sky!

How To Take Niche Blogs To A New Level

I believe that there is a plateau. I believe that there is a barrier with how much a blog of my style can make. With my style of niche blogs I need traffic. The more traffic I get, the more money I make. Traditionally, the whole reason for formatting my niche blogs the way I did was to combat the issue of not having traffic. And guess what, this works! and works well. But, I am not going to get rich from this. Each of my niche blogs (minus a few popular ones) get around 100 visits per day and also make a few bucks per day.

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They both awarded me with some very nice and thoughtful awards recently. Marzie of Mariuca: Wishing On A Falling Star awarded me with…well, my choice of awards. Do I really have to choose? Is more than one all right? LOL

Then Tish over at The Kat House bestowed upon me the Blogging Mentor badge. Never been called that before, but I like it.

Now on to the link love!

Logistik Labs

7 Ways To Improve GoDaddy: With all this exposure and publicity, it’s easy to believe Go Daddy has figured everything out when it comes to dominating the domain registrar industry. While this may true in some aspects, there are a few things that noticeably need to be improved in order for Go Daddy to not only stay on top, but to evolve into the next generation of domain registrar.

Not In My Book

Iron Man Trailer: This one I’m really excited about. I’ve watched this at least once a week since it premiered. I love Iron Man and the casting of Robert Downey Jr. as the brilliant, alcoholic and questionable moral Tony Stark is inspired. It’s so perfect he’ll reprise the role in The Hulk a month later.

ShanKri-la

ShanKri-la Gets a Makeover: I have been working on this theme mod for a bit and it is almost a whole month late in making its way here. I meant to release it for the New Year’s day but my day job kept me busy to complete the stuff I wanted done. So, instead here it is for your eyes today. If you are reading this in a RSS reader, please click through to check out the design effort.

Justin Tadlock

Custom Fields For Feeds: WordPress Plugin: One of the things I wanted to accomplish in the custom fields tutorial series is adding the custom fields to the feed. So, if you’re reading this post through your feed reader, I hope there’s an image at the top of this post. If not, I suppose something went wrong. If you’re not reading this in a feed reader, then I suggest you subscribe to the feed now.

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For those of you who are new to my blog, this is my series when I throw the spotlight on blogs that have caught my interest over the past week. They can be funny, thoughtful, inspiring, useful…or any combination of the above.

So without further delay, here we go!

SpicyTasty

SpicyTasty is our humble attempt at finding and sharing some of our favourite delightful recipes from India and around the world. Here you will find a variety of Indian recipes and some international recipes. Our eclectic recipes are learned from our family & friends.

17th Preparation and Checklist When Changing Wordpress Theme

I just change my theme early this month. Thus I discovered that there are things that we need to backup or take note before changing theme. Things that we edit through CSS editor might not be there once we switch to other theme.

Laughing Ducks

Kiss me (you’ll just have to see this).

Glowing Pigs pass on Gene to Piglets

Scientist from a Chinese university have said 2 out of 11 piglets born from genetically altered cloned pigs have inherited the genes that make them glow fluorescent green under ultraviolet light.

It is More Fun to Turn it Around

So I’m sitting there with my family and just like clockwork when the clock chimed 8 o’clock, the phone rang. You probably get these calls too. They begin something like this: “Mr. White. I have an exciting offer to tell you about…” And they usually end quick enough like this: >click<. Do you just hang up on them too? I always have. Until tonight.

I’d also like to thank Tish for awarding me with the You Cheer Me Up Award. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Have a great week everybody!

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Here are the latest additions to my Drum Corps, my regular post of interesting blogs on the Net. And awaaay we go!

Dosh Dosh: If you’re looking to break new ground with your blog this year, you should read 16 Effective Strategies to Expand Your Blog’s Reach in 2008. It suggests some ideas you may not have heard of or thought about like cloning your blog.

ShanKri-la: Nice write-up on a cool tool used to watermark your images: Watermark Your Images Online - PicMarkr. It makes it easier to ensure credit stays with your photos should someone choose to use them on their blog.

TechTreak: Here’s something that takes minimal space on your blog while informing your readers of tips you want to share. TechTreak Random Top Ads Plugin v2.0 for Wordpress shows you how you can add a single line of text at the very top of your blog. Maybe it’s a text ad you want to display, a tip, or a brief message. Readers can then click through to the next message. Just click on the link and take a look at the top of the page and you’ll see what I mean.

Blogging Gal: Things are movin’ and shakin’ over at Tish’s new blog (complete with new theme). 10 Tips for Writing an Outstanding Blog Review is a good checklist for when you want to write a review.

Swollen Pickles: I surf the Entrecard wave regularly. It’s a great way to discover new and interesting blogs. (reminder: you can advertise on MeAndMyDrum for 47 credits!). It’s also an interesting way to find how people advertise their blogs using the widget. What’s wrong with this ad? shows just what I mean.

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Kyle’s Cove: Find Relevant Keywords With The Keyword Suggestion Tool is a great post leading you to a great tool to find keywords. Knowing what people are searching on (or aren’t) can help you determine how to write your posts and steer your blog in the direction of where you readers are.

BlogSire: This is a blog I’ve just recently been introduced to from my friend Christine. I had a hard laugh when I read Aussie Blokes View Of A Woman. Let it be known that I in no way advocate the philosophy behind the words you’ll read on this one, but I do so enjoy a good laugh.

Everybody Loves Coupons: Okay, so Christmas is over, but there are still savings to be had with other online purchases for any time of the year. I’m not going to highlight a particular post on this blog because you’ll pretty much find savings in each of them. So go check out this one and bookmark it for the next time you buy something online.

Blog Munch: Just how much sleep do you need? Personally, I never get as much as I know I should, but I’ll be working on that in 2008. Some interesting thoughts posted in this article.

Work N Play: For some people, with the new year comes new goals. And that comes from doing an evaluation of what you’re doing today. Perhaps a review of how someone writes an article can help you improve your way of writing. How To Write An Effective Post - A Simple Guide might provide you with a new perspective.

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(The Customer Is) Not Always Right: So true. This blog is full of stories that I’m sure we all can relate to in one way or another. I particularly like Mission: Impossible and On The Futility Of Signs, Part 2.

Simple PC Talk: This is a place that offers step-by-step instructions to help beginner to intermediate users to learn how to do things on their computer. Having strong misgivings over the likes of MySpace.com, I found one article that caught my eye is How to Prevent Your Kids from Going to myspace.com. There’s plenty more where that came from.

zenhabits: At some point in our lives we lack self-confidence. At times, it can be debilitating. 25 Killer Actions to Boost Your Self-Confidence. How do we overcome that? Read this great post to find out.

Online Room: I had no idea a banana can be so multi-talented. You can read Unusual and interesting facts about a banana to find out just how talented.

Blogging Gal: My friend, Tish, has a new blog and it’s off to a good start. She’s publishing some really nice posts, but that’s no surprise given her talent. The one about Internet Addiction: When Use Becomes Abuse is quite possibly something we can relate to.

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