Link: Top Best 50 Blogger & Wordpress Customizations Tips ( Hacks )

Emma Alvarez has written a post listing some hacks for your WordPress blog (and a few work on any platform) to help you customize any theme and make it yours. Some of the cool ones include links for:

• Adding a Favicon (you know those little images that show up next to the URL in your browser's address bar)
• Adding a Digg button to your posts
• Adding more page elements (widgets, sections and such)
• Adding category images
• Adding the ability to make posts sticky
• Customizing the WordPress login screen
• Redirecting a 404 to something worthwhile, you know, like content.
  

Just please for the sake of all that is good and wonderful in the world don't add background music to your website. I am trying to be all puppies and kittens here, but ack.

Link-o-the-day: 10 blogs every blogger should read

This is a great post that lists the cream of the crop blogs you should read as a blogger and if you haven't started with these, then you should. The links include Problogger, Shoemoney and more. This isn't a list of the jive talkers, these are folks making money blogging, writing great content, offering realistic tips, and sharing their successes and failures with the world.

• 10 blogs every blogger should read

BlogHer '08 In San Francisco

The BlogHer conferences site is live and full of information about upcoming conferences.

BlogHer Business ’08

April 3-4, 2008, New York, NY

BlogHer '08
July 18-20, 2008, San Francisco, CA

Reach Out Tour '08

October 2008

BlogHer's mission is to create opportunities for women who blog to pursue exposure, education, community and economic empowerment. BlogHer isn't just for women, men are welcome to attend, volunteer, and participate. BlogHer invite everyone to attend and even offer financial assistance in exchange for volunteering. The program called Blogherships, help make the conference available to everyone. Visit the BlogHer Blogerships post for more information or to volunteer.