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The quickest and most efficient way to ditch most, if not all, of your plurk friends & fans is to…

*insert drumroll here*

*smack a cymbal here*

*stub your toe & poke your eye out here*

….

Use private plurks to tell us “good morning” or that your goldfish ‘fluffy’, may he rest in watery peace, has kicked the proverbial bucket and you *gasps* flushed him down the potty.

Unless it’s a secret or some juicy tidbit of breaking news that you only want your near and dear to read…

Don’t fucking spam my timeline with your bullshit non-private content filled, private plurks.

You’d think that this would be common sense but it’s a never-ending, new-age, plague that has us ‘normal’ plurkers ripping our hair out at the roots.. provided we have hair that is, I’m fully aware that bald plurkers exist, I shant exclude you.

Another quick way to lose your fans and friends on plurk.. or anywhere else for that matter, is to plurk, tweet, facebase, mybook, goggledegook the shortest, stupidest snippets you find around the web and expect us to give a damn.

We don’t care if you just ate a cracker. We don’t care if you have runny farts leaking out of your underpants to seep down to your ankles in a semi-opaque chocolaty smear. We don’t care that your spinach is green (no shit Sherlock!) and we do NOT care when, where or if you pluck out your nose hair.

Talking about eating a cracker is fine but you better put more than that. That godforsaken cracker better have teeth and bite back. If we’re lucky it’ll gnaw the tips of your fingers off so you can’t fucking type about it!

And for god’s sake, would you people realize that you don’t need to post a lolcat photo to us every 2.5 seconds?! They aren’t even that fucking funny! That goes for all images and videos. You think you’re sharing when in reality you’re just pissing the rest of us off because our fingers are getting too much of a workout muting your ass.

Mute, mute, mute. I am the mute-o-nator, hear me roar!… or at least read about it in this blog post.

Just in case you’re one of the superturds that pull these stunts, I’mma lay it out in a simple list for ya. Spell this shit out so maybe, just maybe you / they will take the hint and KNOCK IT OFF ALREADY!

Superturd Breakdown:

• Only use private plurks when a message needs to be private.
• Don’t post useless snippets. ‘I just ate a cracker’ should be: ‘i just ate a ___ blank ___ cracker, it was delicious, have ya’ll tried them?!’
• Don’t abuse the post button. Sharing is caring but it’s murder when you post photos & videos every 2.5 seconds.
• Quit spamming our timelines!

*snickers* evil lil bastids….

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I, like so many others, was vastly overjoyed when I saw a nice jump in my feedburner subscriber count.

Sadly, it appears that these new subscribers are really just people who’ve followed us on friendfeed.

While I don’t discredit their subscription on friendfeed (every person counts!) it really isn’t valid to place them into our feedburner count as these people didn’t click an RSS button on our site/s to sign on for our feeds.

Not to mention friendfeed is more of a social network than anything and most users return follow anyone who follows them… I know I’m guilty of doing that so have no doubts that others do as well.

Hopefully google fixes this issue soon because it really is an issue.

I want to know how many people sign up for my RSS feed; not how many people sign up for my RSS feed AND how many people follow me on friendfriend mashed into a group pile.

I like my statistics simple, please revert and give me my correct numbers again. *shakes fist*

If your host comes set up with a default favicon do yourself a favor and remove it from your files.

You might think it’s a nice gesture on the part of your host but it really isn’t.

The only time you should use a favicon for your website is when you have an icon that is unique to your site. Otherwise it just defeats the purpose of using it in the first place.

Bluehost is a prime example of a host that places a default favicon on new user accounts. The problem is that no matter how good your site is that icon will always be associated with bluehost and a lot of people remember sites solely by their icons, especially in the current days and craze of rss feeds.

Do you think rss is going to go anywhere? I don’t think so. Do you want your readers to remember who you are and keep reading you? Do you want to stand out of the crowd and say “here I am, read me!”? Then change your favicon or don’t use one at all.

No favicon is better than using a favicon tailored for another site.

I can’t tell you how many people leave default icons in place. I can tell you that those who do are generally lost in feed readers and are very easy to be removed from feed readers because a reader doesn’t recognize anything but that icon and *gasp* that icon doesn’t represent what they signed up to read.

But I use highly descriptive feed titles and each post has a superbly keyword rich title! – that won’t save you. That icon sitting beside your titles just makes your feed and posts look like pages or sections of the site the icon really belongs to.

In short, it can be damaging.

It might just be a tiny 16×16 pixel icon but it does more than you think it does. In a sense it’s a big part of your online identity and should be respected as such.

If you’re one of the people using one of these default icons go incinerate it a.s.a.p. or replace it with one that you’ve created to represent your site. If worse comes to worse and you find you can’t create one on your own you can always send a buck my way and let me create it for you.

Have an icon you want to use that isn’t in .ico format? There’s a ton of online generators that you can use at no cost to you, check out the fficial&client=firefox-a" title="Google search results for favicon generator”>google results here.

Need help installing your icon? That’s a simple and painless process, just follow the steps below:

• Upload your favicon.ico (make sure it’s 16×16 pixels!) to the root file of your site directory.
• Place < link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >(without the spaces) between the head tags in your page code.
• Save & refresh your site to view your icon.

KittyRulez.com is having a contest that boasts the following prizes (view photographs below for visual confirmation) which include a Hello Kitty shaped pochette, Hello Kitty shoe strings and a Hello Kitty drink mug as the grand prize followed by a Charmmy Kitty bento box and Hello Kitty bookmark as the second prize.

Oober cute to say the least and it’s easy as pie to participate. Simply write a blog post letting your readers know of the contest then head over to the KittyRulez contest page and leave a comment with your post url.

The only thing better than oober cute Hello Kitty gear is free Hello Kitty gear. I’ve got my fingers crossed that my number will bounce out of the hat but I wish the best of luck to all who join in.

Contest ends on April 2nd, 2009 so get your name in that hat before all the slots are filled up!