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David Airey is a popular logo designer, and is even better known for his blogging at DavidAirey.com. He uses the blog as a platform to solicit potential clients, and has done so successfully enough to quite his day job and become a logo designer full time. He is also known for the active community of fellow bloggers/designers that frequent his site.

RSS feeds have to be one of the most popular ways of consuming a site’s content for the techies and geeks around. With more and more sites and blogs coming up everyday, and more being discovered by us everyday (thank you, StumbleUpon!), it is only sensible judgement that content should be pushed to the user from the site, rather than other way round (which is conventional).

RSS feeds have become quite popular among techies, as the easiest way to read content from sites. The old way of users checking sites have given way to the new way of ‘content-push’ from the site to the user. This means that reading content is easier than ever. With millions of sites and even more blogs, the number of RSS feeds on offer is staggering.

Google has been on a witch-hunt for paid links. They have already cracked the whip on TLA, and TLA responded meekly with the launch of ShoppingAds. Many popular sites, from mainstream media to blogs, have been penalized in terms of PR. Experts comprehend that the next step in penalty would be in terms of search results. Seeing the danger of being removed/punished in Google’s index, many blogs have removed ads.

Have you gaped in utter disbelief when the code you just posted on a blog (via post/comments) came back as some mumbo-jumbo, or even worse, broken that beautiful design? It happens all the time, thanks to the nature of HTML.

There may be HTML characters embedded in the code, which the browser renders, causing 101 million errors. It has happened to most bloggers, and there are many methods to stop it. You can open up a text editor, and find/replace all the characters that you want to fix. This may work with simple code which contains only a few angular brackets (eg: <).