Content creation tools

Automated daily del.icio.us postings

If you use del.icio.us as your social bookmarking tool, there is a relatively simple way to post a daily collection of new links to your blog. Here's an example.

• Here's how to do it for Wordpress users.
• Here's how to do it for Typepad users.
• Here's how to do it for Movable Type.
• Here's the settings to use for Blogger.

Easy mobile blog feeds

All you have to do is know your blog's URL for this one. (example)

• Go to http://www.ifeedyou.com/
• Paste your blog's URL into the textbox on the right hand side of the page
• On the resulting page, make note of the "keyword" given in the "ABOUT" box
• To access your mobile feed, the URL will be http://www.ifeedyou.com/{yourkeyword}

Multi-bookmark submission tools

• socializer http://ekstreme.com/socializer/ (front end)
• SocialSubmit (front)
• Onlywire -- lets you easily submit any of your posts to about 20 social bookmarking sites for easy "social promotion"

Comic life

• Comic life -- fun tool that can be used to add speech bubbles to images as well as compose comic strips from scratch. (example, example)
• Available for Mac OS X for $24.95 with a free 30-day trial
• Available for Windows in a beta version

Make fun stuff

• Lolcats -- make your own lolcats (what the heck is a lolcat?)
• Church sign generator (examples)
• Warning label generator
• De-motivational posters (examples)
• Totally cheesy and therefore cool plaque generators

Blog widgets

Super easy ways to add new features to your blog by tying in to social services you already use

• How to make a twitter badge
• myspace
• facebook
• flickr
• all consuming
• digg
• del.icio.us:
  • display your links on your site: http://del.icio.us/help/linkrolls
  • display your tags on your site: http://del.icio.us/help/tagrolls
  • add a network badge to your site: http://del.icio.us/help/networkbadges

Add a super-search widget

• Lijit is a tool that allows you to put a search widget on your blog that will search an aggregate of your created content from your blogs, Flickr, digg, del.icio.us, etc.
• It also gives you some nice result statistics about what your users are searching for.

Sources for republishable content

• everystockphoto
• Creative commons tabbed search tool
• Yahoo Creative Commons search
• Flickr Creatice Commons search
• Yotophoto
• Pdphoto
• Morguefile
• Opsound -- CC-licensed music for your podcasts