[BLOGGERS] Matt Drudge: world’s most powerful journalist

An interesting look at the story behind the blogger, from where he started, to how the Drudge Report exploded on the scene not all that many years ago. “Pasty-faced recluse”, indeed. :)

(tags: bloggers blogging drudgereport mattdrudge telegraph)

[DESIGN] Blog Headers For Free Download

About one month ago, Smashing Magazine held a contest to create a gallery of blog header graphics, for free, and with no restrictions. Here are the 100 best, available in the source image format (.ai or .psd), in full size (800×200px). Awesome.

(tags: awesome gallery graphics free blogging headers design blog smashingmagazine)

[SOCIAL TOOLS] StumbleUpon Alerter

Get alerted when something you’ve “stumbled” upon gets reviewed or a thumbs up, keeping track of exactly who likes your stuff and who doesn’t (as well as keep track of what stuff you’re stumbling). This is freeware that you can download at light 2MB

(tags: utilities stumbleupon social freeware adamantsolutions)

[SEO NINJA] The most incredible SEO story I have ever read

Granted, I haven’t read a lot, but read on about how one SEO expert was tasked with getting links for a porn site — and its some pretty specific fetish-type porn — and succeeded in spades, getting links back from Bayer and Wikipedia (NSFW).

(tags: 301 awesome ninja polepositionmarketing hacks tricks seo)

[DESIGN] IE8 Not Standards Compliant? (It is!)

For those so technically inclined, IE8 (Internet Explorer 8) Beta 1 does pass the ACID2 test, a way of checking if a browser meets web standards, but some folks are finding it fails when they try it themselves. Answer? It must be the official ACID2 page.

(tags: standards design acidtest2 IE8)

[OFFTOPIC]: Oregon holds health insurance “lottery”

There’s a huge portion of people who cannot afford or who are un-insurable. This is totally off topic for this blog, but there’s something totally and abjectly wrong about this — that the only way these folks can get insured is by winning a lottery

(tags: oregon ap insurance health)