With lots of things going around and people of wide variety of interests, it becomes too tough to blog at college. I live in a hostel with an erratic internet connection. It is like that due to numerous people leaching it at the same time. In such conditions Facebook is the only thing that opens with ease. Several other reasons like blocked ports make my life hell.

It took me 2 months to reach good highs among the blogs of the same niche. It was such a pain to watch my blog fall drastically from great hights on the indiblogger ratings and alexa ranks within 3 months of less activity. This great fall screams for a need to lift it up again. I’m determined to work hard and take my blog to a better high again.

Now I’m back to my home. With a free flow internet connection, I can stay informed about the happenings in the world by frequently visiting various websites and watching videos. This way I’ll be having good matter to post material on Mrpant.com.  I’m quite back to blogging and will try to continue when I go to hostel during the first week of July.

It Helps in building bonds with like minded people:

If you are a blogger and frequently comment on other blog posts, at some point in time the author will notice your interest in his/her blog. This helps you to build up your circle of like minded people (bloggers). You get a regular reader and also some good things to read regularly. Also helps to build up traffic in sufficient time. Shoutmeloud explains…

Constant bombarding of small comments never works. Commenting has a proper protocol, it must be something which adds to the content of the post. Or it can be a hearty acknowledgment. Criticisms are desirable if put forward in a polite manner.

It can get you a free ad slot:

AnimHut runs this great offer every month. End of every month the top commentator on the blog is awarded with a free adslot for the month. This month it is giving away two such adslots.

It helps to build backlinks:

Commenting makes an active link on the page you comment. This builds a backlink that is tracked by web crawlers if the link is dofollow type. Nowadays the search engines and ranking websites heavily depend on the backlinks to rate a website. It eventually helps to pump up your blog’s rank.

Microsoft Word 2007 lets you publish a new post on your blog directly from your desktop. The following tutorial shows you how to publish your wordpress post directly from Microsoft Word 2007.

1. To publish a blog post directly, Selct File>new in word, now select new blog post

2. Select register, now select your blog provider. In this case wordpress.

3. Now enter you domain name with /xmlpc.php, ID and password.

4. Do not worry about warnings. Click yes.

5. You’ll get a confirmation message. Now you can start typing your post’s title and matter in word and publish directly. Happy blogging!

Thoora is one of its kind service. It provides real time information on the reaction of social and traditional media on a particular story. It uses input like twitter, blogs and many other such services to cluster the information.

Thoora’s approach on displaying the most popular stories on the internet is based on what blog posts, comments, twitter updates and news articles have to say. It is an unbiased way of approach. Ranking of the stories is done according to the extent of reaction generated on a particular story. RSS feeds is the main source of the data Thoora uses to rank stories.

Also there is a search option. This helps you find anything you are searching for. Another use of  Thoora could be to derive ideas on topics to blog about.

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