Twitter is a micro blogging service that allows you only 140 characters to express your inner most needs, your most astounding questions, your most intellectual answers and your most outrageous funniest jokes. With only 140 characters, there is not much room to explain much or to be long winded. You have to be crisp, sharp and to the point.

So when someone post 140 characters on Twitter that make you laugh, it's worth while to share with the rest of the community. Here is a list of really funny 140 characters. We can't really call them one liners can we?

Blogging, it's about writing. Blogging is the web 2.0 phenomenon that has taken over the internet. Every Tom, Dick and Jane is blogging now.  For a while I had thought that you needed to be an author or a journalist in order to be a blogger. I had thought that one needed some form of writing skills in order to blog. Because of this I never got into blogging. Why? Well simply because I have dyslexia.

Can a dyslexic blog? Will people read his blog? Will they mock and ridicule his mistakes? 

These and others were always questions that I was asking and was afraid of what the answer would be. So I never got involved. But like a catchy Flu virus that you cannot avoid, I caught the blog bug. Now here I am, a dyslexic blogging.

The ceremony of thanksgiving as we know it today is celebrated mostly by Americans on the fourth Thursday of November. Most people in South Africa and many other places around the globe do not celebrate this particular memorial. But that does not mean we do not have anything to be thankful for.

My question to you is, can you list what and who you are thankful for?

This is a guest post by Gordie Rogers.

If you have a blog with a readership, then you already have a built in support group.

Recently, I wrote two posts where I shared some personal struggles I was having in regard to my blogging and my weight gain. I was amazed at the support I got from my readers in the comments section encouraging me and giving me great advice as well as sharing some of their own similar struggles.

It’s amazing that if you open up on your blog, how many of your readers will also be willing to open up on your blog. That is what creating a caring blog community is about. By telling your readers your struggles and asking them for advice occasionally, you’re leveraging your readership in a positive way to be a support group.

The reason, I decided to write about this today is because I’ve just read a really powerful and personal post called I Don’t Want To Be The Alcoholic That I Am. Read it and the comments Karen’s readers left her below. It’s obvious she has a real caring community there. Don’t forget to come back to this blog though. :)

Admittedly, some types of blogs are more suited for opening up than others. If she wrote that kind of post on a blog specializing in SEO, then it may or not go down so well. However, no matter what kind of blog you have, you can still tell your readers about certain struggles you’re having in regard to your blog or niche.

However, if you don’t get any response, then I think there is some reason for concern that your readers don’t feel close enough to you. You may need to start building a closer relationship with them.

Some things you can do to build a closer relationship with your readers. Let them see your personality through your writing. Write how you’d speak. Tell some real life anecdotes that have happened to you. Have a picture or pictures of you on your blog. Give your readers an update of...

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Welcome to the November 16, 2009 edition of web developers.

General Case Ernsting presents MetaSpring Blog | Pre-Launch Website Checklist posted at MetaSpring Blog, saying, "There is a lot of stress and chaos that comes with launching a new website. In order to minimize the anxiety, we've put together this simple checklist to go through as you navigate your way towards launch. Getting your work up online should be a fun process and something to look forward to!"

Web 2.0 Jason Small presents Google Social Search posted at Social Media and The Big W, saying, "In the new blend of social media and search engines, Google now steps towards offering a Social Search feature now in an opt-in phase through "Google Experimentals.""

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of web developers using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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The X Factor is a British television singing competition, contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. The X Factor was devised as a replacement for the highly successful Pop Idol. The show has proved hugely popular with audiences, with the series 5 final attracting 14.5 million UK viewers. 

The X Factor is largely the baby and brainchild of Simon Cowell who wanted to launch a show that he owned the television rights to.

We are always looking for new and inventive ways to promote our blogs. Now the best ways to promote your blog is to actually convince others to do it for you. Word of mouth is still the number one and preferred way of marketing. First of all because it's genuine and carries a good recommendation, and secondly it's a whole lot cheaper than normal marketing channels.

While searching and surfing around the blogospere I came across a wonderful site called Blogengage.

Everybody can blog, but perhaps blogging is not for everyone. Is that true? I see so many new bloggers start with great expectations, but soon give up. Their blogs seem to die a horrible slow death after only having life for a few months.

When Young bloggers take on this new medium they are all filled with enthusiasm and passion, but soon that dwindles down to nothing. It seems that giving up is the easiest thing to do. Thousands of new blogs are started every month and thousands upon thousands are neglected and closed down each month.

Should you actually give up blogging. Well here are a few reasons for you to consider.

Just come from visiting family. It's a great time and every one has fun and shares a lot of memories and great stories. But then it turned into a who's better than who argument, and eventually ended in putting other family members down. Whether they deserved it or not was not the point, but it did leave a bitter taste in my mouth.

This got me thinking about bloggers. So many bloggers and readers end up downing someone else's character in either a blog post or blog comment. Which should and often does leave a bitter taste in my mouth.

Every blogger looks towards the A-list bloggers like Darren Rowse, Chris Brogan, Seth Godin, Guy Kawasaki and sees how much money they make as full time bloggers. A fair amount of funds seem to come in via different ad campaigns, affiliate marketing, onsite sales of things like ebooks, and various other onsite money making schemes. So the dillusion is, that to make money one needs to have as much ads on your site as possible.

But is this really true? Does having ads on your website actually b

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