The Article Writer

I stopped over at Laura Spencer’s WritingThoughts blog earlier today and discovered that Laura has started her WAHM week feature — a focus on Work At Home Mothers — and their personal experiences. In some ways I can relate as I am a WAHD (Dad) who juggles several business angles from the “comfort” of my home too. My wife and I have two kindergarten boys and getting work done when they are around can be especially challenging!

Laura shared on Monday her personal WAHM story and for the rest of the week she will be publishing interviews with other WAHMers, sharing work/family balancing tips, talk about setting up a freelancing business, and conclude her week with a discussion about some great WAHM resources and WAHM hazards for mothers to be aware of.

So, if you are work at home mother or a mother who really wants to quit her job to spend more time with the family, then make sure you follow Laura’s blog especially this week.

Wikipedia, the online editable source for all kinds of information, now has a new competitor. Citizendium has been launched as an alternative to Wikipedia with Larry Sanger, one of Wikipedia’s founders, at the helm of this particular venture.

As an online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been wildly successful with more than 1.7 million English articles in its database according to news stories. However, Wikipedia has been problematic from the start as it is subject to abuse due to its open edit design. In addition, Wikipedia’s volunteers do not have to identify who they are, casting some of its information in doubt. With Citizendium, which will also be nonprofit and ad free, volunteers will have to disclose who they are when making edits.

I don’t use Wikipedia as a source for citation, but I will consider Citizendium as long as its editorial integrity is upheld.

There are several tools available to webmasters to help them to accurately measure the performance of their sites. Over the past several months I have mentioned a few of them, but today I would like to draw your attention to a tool which I think is head and shoulders above them all.

Smart PageRank is new, a tool that does the work of several tools as one. You not only can double check your Google Page Rank (with scores pulled from 30 Google datacenters listed), but you’ll also learn:

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