Well, if you are the king of the Internet, and have a market cap higher that the GNP of all the developed countries in the world plus Bill Gates and Warren Buffet (well- almost) you have, well, at least 45.

Official Google Blog: The wisdom of orkut

1. More Google Blogs
2. AdWords API Blog
3. Blogger Buzz
4. Blogs of Note
5. Dentro de AdSense
6. Dentro de AdWords
7. El Blog de Google México
8. Google AJAX Search API Blog
9. Google Analytics Blog
10. Google Checkout API Blog
11. Google Code – Featured Projects
12. Google Code – Updates
13. Google CPG
14. Google Librarian Central
15. Google Polska – oficjalny blog
16. Google Talkabout
17. Google Testing Blog
18. Google Web Toolkit Blog
19. Google Webmaster Central Blog
20. Google 黑板报 — Google 中国的博客网志
21. Google 한국 블로그
22. Il blog ufficiale di AdSense in Italiano
23. Inside AdSense
24. Inside AdSense – Das offizielle deutsche AdSense-Blog
25. Inside AdSense: Het Officiële Nederlandse Google AdSense Blog
26. Inside AdWords
27. Inside Google Book Search
28. Inside Google Desktop
29. O blog do Google Brasil
30. Official Google Base Blog
31. Official Google Blog
32. Official Google Checkout Blog
33. Official Google Data APIs Blog
34. Official Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog
35. Official Google Enterprise Blog
36. Official Google Italia Blog
37. Official Google Japan Blog
38. Official Google Mac Blog
39. Official Google Maps API Blog
40. Official Google Reader Blog
41. Official Google Research Blog
42. Official Google Video Blog
43. Por dentro do AdSense
44. Webmaster-Zentrale Blog
45. Официальный блог – Google Россия

Still not convinced blogs are great business tools? If I hear one more “I want a website- not a blog” from someone who can’t tell a browser from a broaster- it’s time to leave Dayton OH for somewhere where people want to learn how to win at business.

The word Blog needs to go away. It’s a very smart, backend for a sophisticated content management system that can get to the top of Google without having to pay for your position. Blogs can also allow anyone to manage content for a site.

If Google is doing it- why aren’t you? Take the Websitetology seminar and become a brilliant asset to your company.

A client asked what happened to the undo button in WordPress 2.1- I thought it disapeared with the autosave- but with a little help from Google- I found an “Easter egg” function in WordPress.

WordPress 2.1 – More Editor Options » Solo Technology
Recently upgraded to WordPress 2.1 and pondering the WYSIWYG editor? Did you know there are more options there than what you first see? Me neither! But, thanks to “codeispoetry” in this support thread, I do now.

Go from this:

Basic toolbars

to this:

Advanced toolbar

PC users just hit alt-shift-v (Firefox) or alt-v (IE) to toggle it. Mac users– use cntrl-v (Firefox)

(Not seeing either of those? Visit Users → Your Profile and make sure that “Use the visual editor when writing” is checked. Still having problems? Visit the WordPress support forums.)

Pasting from word processors just became a whole lot easier. Two of the new buttons are “Paste as Plain Text” and “Paste from Word.” Nice for those who use such things. I like the custom character thing too. Now I can easily add ∞ whenever I need it…

Lorelle has an amazing post about plugins for handling pictures, well worth the time to investigate. I’ve found that many themes don’t handle pictures well, and trying to attach a caption isn’t really something that a stock WordPress install can do. Until we have time to check out some plugins with WordPress 2.1, we’ll just send you to Lorelle’s page:

WordPress Plugins for Images, Photographs, and Graphics « Lorelle on WordPress
WordPress offers fairly simple image uploading and the automatic creation of thumbnails, but there are a lot more you can do with your images with WordPress Plugins.

There are a lot of WordPress Plugins to help you upload, sort, arrange, enhance, edit, frame, popup, popin, lightbox, photo album, work with online image storage support and services, and manage your images.

Unfortunately, not all media-based WordPress Plugins, no matter how impressive and fun, are well supported or well documented. Creating an image-oriented WordPress Plugin is challenge, hard work, and takes a lot of maintenance as technology changes and WordPress upgrades. Many create these for fun and then let them go. I’ve done my best to only highlight the WordPress Plugins which feature strong documentation, easy instructions, and show recent activity and support.

One thing I can’t stress enough- remember to give your pictures great alt tags (title and description). Google will give a properly labeled photo great page rank if you have the search term in the alt text. A post I did with a photo of the band Supernova ended up number 4 in google for a bit- this was when the TV show was on and millions were watching.

If you don’t understand what to put in alt text, here is my rule- what would describe the picture to a blind person? Write a good description for a blind person- and you’ve got Google’s attention.