PLNtools

=PLN Tools=


 * Free RSS Readers**
 * [|Bloglines]
 * [|Google Reader]
 * Free Blog Hosting**
 * Rather than reinventing the wheel, find those resources on my blogging wiki.
 * Free Microblog Hosting**
 * [|Plurk](Decent user base. Threaded conversations. "Karma" system prevents a lot of the "spammed" friend/follower requests.)
 *  [|Twitter] (Insanely large user base. Sometimes has "growing pains." Lots of "spam" accounts.")
 *  [|ShoutEM] (Create and customize your own Microblog service. Good for classes or other small communities.)
 * Miscellaneous Tools**
 * [|LoudTwitter] - Web service that takes your posts on Twitter and turns them into daily posts on your blog of choice.
 * [|Ping.fm] - Website that allows you to post to a variety of blogs and/or microblogs at the same time.
 * [|Technorati] - Search engine built specifically for blogs. Search for your own blog's address and you'll find blogs that link to yours. [|Google Alerts] is a similar service, but the results are not always the same.
 * [|TinyURL] - Web service that takes long web addresses and shortens them to make them easier to type, remember, or simply get around the 140 character limit on most microblogs.
 * [|Twitterfeed] - Web service that will take anything with an RSS feed and turn it into a posting on Twitter.