Do you want to get a synthétic view of the operation of your web site? Go check Is My Blog Working to know all about your blog.

Do you want your blog to become visible to press people in the mainstream press media? This used to be nearly impossible, but the Internet is bringing a solution. Not perfect, but BlogBurst offers exactly that: International exposure into the small but influential world of big media (both paper press and some big Internet web sites).

Your content has to be very powerful and mere exposure does not mean that you will be immediately considered as a worldwide expert on the issue you blog about, but it could be a sort of blog-japckpot.

To illustrate a web site, it is often useful to have access to a photo library. Most of the Internet-based photo stocks are fairly cheap, but you can do better with some totally free photo libraries.

• The Smithsonian Institution : large-size images, of mostly historical interest.
• George Eastman House Museum : black-and-white and very brightly colored picutres covering most of the XXth Century.
• The Library of Congress : First-class historical photos, including protraits of American Presidents and collections of very famous images – but size may be limited.
• The New York Public Library : Less striking than most of the others, but very deep list.
• NASA exposes huge stacks of space and sceicen photos.

Source: Photojojo.com, via YLovePhoto.com.

Who doesn’t want to use free images for her web site? Unfortunately, it’s far from easy. This is what is explained in “The Finer Points of Finding Free Images” (by James Dempsey).