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WordPress Theme Review – The best WordPress themes for SEO

Review site that looks at the search engine optimization factors of each WordPress theme and then gives a score; nice way to find a good theme that also will help get traffic.

Steampunk Remake: Dave Veloz’s Keyboard and Monitor

Totally freaking awesome. I don’t follow the steampunk movement much but even I can appreciate the creativity and attention to detail that went into this heavy mod.

Grip Your Readers With These 7 Knock-out Opening Sentences

Great advice about opening sentences. I should write a WordPress plugin to display the list next to my post compose box. 🙂

Profiles I’d like to see on oDesk – oDesk Insider

Specific examples of good (but missing) freelancer adverts. General application of these particular ideas could help a lot of freelancers.

WPDesigner » How to Use WordPress as a Membership Directory

This brief tutorial could come in handy… I’ve done something similar but didn’t document it, so this is a great reference should I need to do it again.

The Go-Giver | A Little Story About A Powerful Business Idea | By Bob Burg and John David Mann

This is a fantastic book landing page. I’m going to use some similar concepts for mine, so I want to make sure I keep this example handy.

WordPress › Sabre « WordPress Plugins

I have a client who’s battling spam registrations on their MU site. This plugin looks like just the ticket.

TubeMogul.com – Online Video Distribution and Analytics

I’ve been meaning to do more with video, and this multi-submit site makes it sound a lot easier to do the distribution part.

Overstream — Welcome

I’ve been hearing about this service to add close-captioning to videos for a while. I’d like to use it on some of my instructional videos.

Instantly Improve Your Writing – oDesk Insider

Three great tips for writers who use Microsoft Word–everything from find-and-replace to ease-of-reading stats.