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As a blog owner one of your biggest assets is your readers – if you don’t have any readers there isn’t much point in blogging (unless you just got started). Having a lot of readers is great but what really adds life to a blog are comments – and you definitely want to encourage comments. So, just like I did last month I’m going to point you to a few interesting posts I found on the blogs of May’s top commentators:

ShanKri-la (aka K-IntheHouse) writes about Remember The Milk going offline using the new Google Gears tool. I remember checking out the to-do list service Remember The Milk some time ago but never really tried it (I usually use the Simpleology system to create “daily tasks” lists). But this sounds pretty cool – it’ll also be interesting to see how Google Gears will develop. It’s going to open up a lot of new possibilities.

Kassper posts about the launch of the AGLOCO viewbar. That’s good news – it looks like they delayed the launch quite a bit. Well, better to launch something that works rather than having to patch it constantly. I joined AGLOCO a few months back but didn’t promote it much. There is too much uncertainty around it for me to spend a lot of time on it. But it might work… Right now I can’t access their site to check my downline so I can’t give stats on that.

Jacob talks about how you should do more than you learn. That’s a great tip because that’s what I think a lot of people do – they buy eBook after eBook (or regular book, audio course or some other information package) thinking that this one will fix all their problems. I used to do this to some degree and I guess I still do a little – I sometimes get caught up in reading blog after blog because they’re all so good and educational. Looks like I have to be more strict and set aside specific periods where I’m going to only work on building my business – and also set aside time to reeducate myself. Because even though nothing happens if you don’t take action you have to be aware of the latest discoveries – especially when you have an online business where everything changes so fast. So, don’t be an information junkie – be an action junkie!

Ryan gives a great tip on how to increase your website performance if you’re running AuctionAds on your sites. I might need to try that one…

Natron provides some good tips on how to properly network. Creating the right kind of relationships is very important when building your business – you might just be one joint venture away from huge success.

Scot posted a couple of videos on public speaking. These are more like “how NOT to” videos – they are so embarrassing, but still funny :)

Techified checks out the new Nokia E65. My current cellphone is over 3 years old so it’s time to upgrade – I might consider the E65 because I want my new phone to be all tricked out :)

Gary talks about the importance of message-to-market match – or that’s what I think his point was ;)

Jeff thinks women are dangerous. Yes, definitely – if your focus isn’t at the right place bad things can happen ;)

Chee posts about trying to live without the major search engines for a day. I don’t think I could do it – I use Google all day, every day. It’s just become a part of my life – both personal and business.

Also, as a bonus, here is a post from a loyal reader, Emad. I kept seeing his image (the green lantern or something) on the MyBlogLog “Recent readers” widget in the sidebar — New feature in Google Images lets you get only results for faces. Interesting… I tested it a little and it seems to work. I wonder how Google does that – if they developed (or acquired) an algorithm that detects faces or if they’re having people go through the results and pick out faces? The algorithm is more likely…

If you’re interested in being included in the next “reader appreciation” post it’s pretty simple – just comment on my posts and/or join my MyBlogLog community.

Actually, right now you only need to place one comment to get into the top commentators list – hint, hint ;)

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