It seems someone is playing with the site. All the URLs of tag pages have been left with only //

http://wordpress.com/tags//

instead of  http://wordpress.com/tags/life/

Blogging Toolkit is a set of tools and and softwares that a blogger uses to manage, publicize, monetize and optimize his blog. A blogging toolkit is needed by a blogger for generating traffic, gaining popularity and running a full featured blog.

Nirmal has tagged me to reveal my blogging toolkit and here I shall write about my blogging kit.

1. Blogging Platform

Wordpress is my blogging platform. I shifted from blogger last August. Wordpress has been amazing in terms of flexibility it has offered. Blogger stands no where in front of wordpress when it comes to themes, plugins and RSS feeds. The coolest thing about wordpress is the RSS feed. You can create RSS feeds for any category or even search terms

The inevitable has happened. Dreams were shattered, hearts were broken and many were sent to deep chasm of depression after seeing India lose to minnows Bangladesh. All the hype around ‘Team India’ seems to have suffered a big blow. I wonder why they still show that Pepsi ad, where Indian team poses like the tigers, when they falling like nail pins. Bangladeshis would have had a heartily laugh seeing these tigers become asses in front of Bengal Tigers.

Wordpress these days seems to be updating its blogging software like I edit my articles! Every 7 day you have a new release. One of the most important features for me is

You can set any “page� to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system.

I am trying to use WP for a newspaper site and this type of content manager change is a gift. Other interesting features include

Links in your blogroll now support sub-categories and you can add categories on the fly.

I installed this wonderful addon which lets users listen to posts on this blog. Just click on the “listen to this article” at the top and you will be redirected to a window in which you can listen to the post in quicktime player. You can download quicktime here.

With few simple steps you can add this feature on your blog

1. Go to http://www.talkr.com/ and register. Input your site feed. This will generate the Talkr Feed URL. Something like http://www.talkr.com/app/cast_pods.app?feed_id=25409

2. Edit your blogger or wordpress template to include the code generated. It should be easy for blogger. For wordpress users they have to edit their ‘the_loop’ file. Paste the code generated