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I tried to stop myself from writing this because I want this whole week to be about me, my retirement, and of course me. But I can’t help it. So let me tell you what happened.

Recently, I had the pleasure of talking to Mark on the phone - and since he is my marketing idol, I spent the whole call hoping I didn’t sound like a complete nut job…

Because that’s really too soon for new friends to know you’ve flown around the cuckoo’s nest one too many times, you know?

And he said something about this big huge secret project that he was doing.

Then I barely heard from him until today. I thought I said something stupid that I couldn’t remember, or he got word of my mental instability (haha). But no. It’s that HE is the one who is off his rocker. He wasn’t saying much because he was all about this project.

So what did he do that I’m shaking my head at?

Just gave away his book free. That’s all. Been on the best seller list a bunch of times - not just Amazon’s. I think it was his last book that was on the Wall Street Journal’s best seller list.

And I bet he can do it again in a heart beat, without breaking a sweat. But, instead? He just gave it away. Just like that.

Let me tell you something? When my book comes out — and it is coming soon — I’ll sign your copy. I’ll throw in free shipping. Because I do love you.

But there ain’t NO way you’re getting a free copy. So don’t ask me. You want a free book? Go talk to Mr. Joyner.

And you tell him I said….

Uh…

Okay don’t tell Mr. Joyner I said anything. Let’s just keep this between us for now. I’m reading the book now - the subtitle is “How Small Businesses Become Big Businesses - and Big Businesses Become Empires“.

And I’m telling you, you want to read it.

Right now.

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InspectorWidget (IW) adds a toolbar button and context menus for invoking the DOM Inspector (DOMi) for either chrome or content elements. Features include:

1. Clicking the toolbar button will enable the next mouse click on any chrome or content element to open a DOMi window with it positioned on the parent element in the respective DOM tree.

2. Context-clicking the toolbar button will present a menu of all open chrome windows and dialog panels. Selecting a menu will immediately bring the selected window/dialog to the front thus allowing easy and quick access to clicking the element of interest. EXCEPTION: IW (as are all toolbar buttons) is disabled when the Options dialog is open and it must be interrogated using the standard DOMi method.

3. Context-clicking the content area will present two options to allow inspection of a page and, if relevant, the inspection of an individual frame.

NOTE: The DOM Inspector extension must be installed for this extension to work.

Have a gidget, gadget, widget, wadget time.

MorganLighter

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If you’re like me and always use a single Firefox window, opening all new pages in tabs, you probably don’t care much about displaying the current tab’s page title in the window titlebar. Titlebar Tweaks enables you to customize your window titlebar to do the following:

- Display the browser name before the page title
- Display only the browser name or page title
- Replace the browser name in the titlebar with your own text

Here’s a bit of info from ’scrap104′ -

To make it work with Firefox 3, change the maxversion in the install.rdf in the xpi file to 3 instead of 2. or download here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2YAJFQKT On Firefox go to File > Open file > select the xpi file and you have Titlebar Tweaks installed.

Thanks, scrap104.

Get Titlebar Tweaks - it’s too cool.

MorganLighter

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Do you have Web Developer 1.1.6?

No?

It adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

Well you’ve got to have it soon.

How about right now?

You’re welcome.

MorganLighter

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So you’ve added your site to Yahoo Directory, maybe paid the fee for a fast response. But now you have a question about your listing. Think you have to wait to get an answer via email? Think again!

Now, before I tell you what cool thing the Yahoo Directory team is doing on Twitter to help you, please remember the following. I will highlight it for emphasis, as it comes directly from the person behind this Yahoo identity on Twitter:

the quickest, most effective way to get a site reviewed for listing in the Directory is here - https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/submit/intro/

Please don’t tweet them requests for inclusion. Because if I find out, I will personally shame you in public. And no, you won’t get a link out of it. Nothing but embarrassment and shame.

Okay, with that out of the way, follow Yahoo Directory on Twitter for updates, @ them for help. Oh, and if you don’t know how to use Twitter effectively, reply and I will make you guys a list of free resources for learning.

Who else have you encountered on Twitter doing awesome customer service?

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I’m looking at what feeds to keep or delete in Google Reader and I discovered something.

I can pretty much tell what a site is about if I look at it in list view, which just lists the headlines in a feed. That’s helping me categorize un-categorized feeds. Which blog I’m writing in determines what I’ll prioritize reading that day, so being able to tell at a glance what a blog’s “voice” or “message” is strikes me as important.

You know how I think — would my blog pass that test?

And sadly, (though not surprisingly, given that I’ve been quiet in anticipation of my “retirement” next month), even if I take out our special Friday editions, I can only give a qualified yes to answer that question.

IF the person subscribing already knows a bit about traffic, they can tell my posts are on that topic from the headlines. If not, you can’t really tell.

Granted, I like to get creative with my titles. But headlines are everything. Am I losing the core audience this site was built for by leaning too much towards witticisms?

Could you gain more visitors by tweaking your titles?

Try this exercise on your own site and tell me what you found out.

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