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In no particular order, what follows are 14 of the best Twitter tools and resources on the web!

Just Tweet It – service described as providing Twitter users the ability to “find other Twitter users like you!” Just Tweet It is a “Tweeter Directory” and allows you to add yourself to directories based upon interests that consist of groups of like-minded Twitter users.  In addition, you can list yourself into relevant directories so that people will be able to discover you!

Mr. Tweet – service described as “your personal networking assistant/agent [that] helps you expand your network easily.”  Mr. Tweet aims to provide this service in 3 ways: by getting you relevant followers, helping you discover great people relevant to your current needs, and improve your Twitter usage via useful statistics.  To start, you simply follow @MrTweet

Twitturly – service “for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter”.  Twitturly lists the top links as well as the active tweets that posted the link and is a good tool for discovering what is hot on Twitter.

Favrd – a service that displays the recent highly favorited Tweets.  It lists the tweet that has been favorited as well as a look into the Twitter users who chose to favorite the tweet.

Tweet Later – “productivity tools for busy Tweeple”, Tweet Later allows you to set up alerts and track keywords in the public Twitter stream, schedule tweets, send automatic thank you notes, manage multiple Twitter accounts and more.

TweetSum -  a tool aimed to help you investigate potential connections.  When somebody new follows you, you can use TweetSum’s tools help you decide whether this person is somebody you should follow back or not.

Twellow – “a service to help Twitter users find people to follow.  Twellow categorizes and organizes Twitter into hundreds of niches to make your searching easier.”  Twellow is a search engine for searching Twitter bios, names, and locations.

Twitterholic – a service that provides Top Twitter user rankings and stats.  More than anything, this service is amusing and provides you with interesting data.

TwitPic – a tool that “lets you share photos on Twitter”.  It is heavily used and many Twitter clients have built-in support for it already.

Twapps – “archiving the best Twitter apps”.  A useful service for those Twitter users looking for new and/or unique Twitter applications.

Twittown – an alternative to, and perhaps better than, Twapps.  Twittown is “The Apps and Widgets Community and Forums” and serves as a great resource for discovering new Twitter Apps and Widgets.

Less Friends – simply put, a tool that provides an answer to the question: “Do the people you follow on Twitter, follow you?”  This tool can be very useful for making sure you do not accumulate to many people on your Following list.  An alternative to less friends is FriendsOrFollow.com

Twemes – a service that is “particularly useful for keeping up on the real-time activities associated with a live event”.  Twemes follows tweets that have embedded tags that start with a hashtag (#).

Top Twitter Clients from TwitStat – Provides live data on the top Twitter clients being used to manage Twitter accounts.  Very useful tool for discovering powerful Twitter clients.

First of all, thanks to the 77,173 unique visitors who have come to Karma Rogue since I launched it October 15th. I made this blog to entertain people but have had little time to invest in promoting it or getting involved in the blogging communities. Luckily or deservingly, other people have spread the word for me and google has been fairly kind as well.

Since the beginning, I’ve taken pride in providing daily updates and keeping the site advertisement free. In order to keep the site advertisement free I have employed a very conservative layout that really keeps the server from working unnecessarily hard.  Daily updates, however, have been a bit more of a challenge lately. I’ve gone through some life changes that you can read and see a little about on my personal blog if you wish.

Anyways, things have calmed down as much as I am willing to let them which means that I will do my best to provide daily updates once more. Feel free to shoot an e-mail to karmarogue [at] gmail [dot] com if you have something you’d like to see posted here.

I vow to continue to provide random, entertaining content without dishing out advertisements and will do my very best to return to the daily updates format in the coming week.

In the first “Learning to Blog” post, I was really, really new to the blogosphere. I had little-to-no idea what I wanted with karmarogue.com. I had read several blogging-tips sites that said: “Above all else, your blog should have a focus.” Here I am, on day 50 of my blog’s lifespan, and I still have very little direction.

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I uncovered an older but yet still well written ‘guide to getting blog readers’. It starts off with a very appropriate quote by Dylan Hunt: “Every man is the hero of his own story.”

“How do you get people to read your blog? This guide will tell you how to gain readers, how, in effect, to be heard. It discusses how to approach blog content, design, launch, writing your blog, marketing and revisions.”

Read on for my dissection of this informative, albeit lengthy, article.

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Italian bloggers and web site designers are going to have to deal with new regulations. Ricardo Levi, the undersecretary to the President of the Council, has worked up a law to shut the Internet up. Approved on October 12 after unanimous agreement, the Levi-Prodi law requires that anyone with a blog or a website must register it with the ROC, pay a tax, and produce certificates even if they have no intention of making money. Sounds like some real bullshit as having the ability to quickly start blogging is an important reason blogging is so powerful.

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Are you a blogger interested in SEO? Then you can’t pass up the opportunity to watch this very nice video featuring Matt Cutts lecturing on whitehat SEO for bloggers.

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I’m new to the blogosphere. So new, in fact, that until yesterday I could have cared less about Technorati. I’ve decided to publish my learning process so that other people who are thinking about blogging for (high levels of) traffic can learn along with me.

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