This week, I was too busy with the day job to even download my email, let alone read the posts at Sphinn. So I ended up doing all of my reading on Saturday, which meant that it was easy to pick my favorite blog post of the week:
27 Secrets to Linking Like a Networking Master

Of all of the Web 2.0 sites I’ve come across, so far I like Stumbleupon the best.

Why? Because it gives me the best surfing.

At Stumbleupon, I can indicate my interests, click on a button and see a random site that has been given a thumbs-up by people with the same interest. It shows lots of great sites that I’d probably never come across in the search engines.

Yes, the third annual Thirty Day Challenge has started. This year, the challenge is to make $10. I don’t know that I’ll be able to fully keep up with the challenge, but I’ve decided to take on a small challenge of my own - I’m going to blog the thirty days.

1) I have (literally) several thousand recent unread emails.

2) There are dozens of enticing posts in several of my favorite forums still waiting to be read.

3) I want to finish reading all of my favorite blogs written by other people.

4) I’m too busy reading all of the ProBlogger Top 5 contest entries.

5) I don’t have time to think of anything to write about (let alone 5 things!).

The last few days, I’ve been playing with my latest software toy, Rapid Niche Websites. I’ve set up this blog with the standard RNW template.

Exploring all that Rapid Niche Websites can do to design a blog got me thinking about types of blogs, and the themes and plugins that go with them.