Trumblog

These are my links for November 8, 2008 through November 9, 2008:

• Blogging Hits Mainstream, Integral to Media Ecosystem – Summary of Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report. Characteristics of Bloggers, Top Tools and Tactics, Topics for Bloggers, Blogging for Profit, Blogger Analytics
• Twitter Grader | Score Your Twitter Profile Power – Measures the power of a twitter profile and assigns a rank.
• Website Grader SEO Tool – Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.
• Compare Alexa, Compete, Google Trends, and Quantcast Traffic Graphs … – Attentionmeter gives you a quick snapshot comparing traffic on up to 5 websites you want using Alexa, Compete, and Quancast.
• People More Likely to Fib in Email, Study Finds – Professors at Rutgers, DePaul, and Lehigh universities conducted studies with 48 full-time MBA students. On email, 92 percent of students lied. In contrast, 64 percent of those that used pen and paper. Moreover, email communicators said they felt more justified in lying.

  "It’s not just that emailers were more deceptive," said Lehigh's Liuba Belkin, one of the authors of the report. "It’s that the magnitude by which they lied was significantly greater."

  A second study of 69 MBA students showed that if emailers are familiar with each other, they were less deceptive — but still likely to lie.

• Readability.info: Readability Scores, Grades, Sentences, Paragraphs … – Get analysis of the characteristics of your writing and ascertain a multitude of readability scores. Upload documents and urls.