Words From a Purple Mind

SubmitStartup is a directory listing Startup Blogs allowing webmasters to choose the best startup blogs to submit their startups. It provides useful information about startup blogs such as Page Rank, Alexa Rank, Estimated Visitors, etc. It also counts the number of unique visitors coming from blog posts about SubmitStartup.

This is a extension of the blog post “10+ Software Testing Blogs“. This blog post has 200+ software testing blogs and tweeters.

I also created the Twitter List “@jayphilips/software-testing” so you can follow all of the people listed on this post with one just click.

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Mashable’s 2009 Open Web Awards is still open for nominations. Nominations started on October 14, 2009 and last until November 15, 2009. Voting is from November 18th – December 13th, 2009. Winner Announcements will be on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009.

You can nominate people/companies for various different categories ranging from:

I have been in the software testing field for over 9 years. I have played various roles ranging anywhere from manual tester, performance tester, business analyst to web developer.

After much debate and running into too many limitations with the Ning platform I have decided to move my personal blogs to WordPress. The blogs I posted on the All Realms Ning platform are still available and each of the converted blogs do provide a link back to the original blog. I haven’t been able to pull the previous comments yet so let’s just say we’re starting fresh for now.

This is just my two cents so take it as you may.

Before you write a blog or post a comment do you step back and think who might see it?

The Become a Blogger team Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick have put together a wonderful report on the Roadmap to Become a Blogger.

If you are interested in blogging or just want to learn more about it I recommend taking the time to either read/listen to the report. The report is free and also has an audio file if you want to listen to it on your mp3 player.