Meta Link Bait – This week’s Best 11 List of Lists

Online, people like lists — who knows, maybe people everywhere like lists, either making them or reading them.

Since the goal of writing online is, not surprisingly, to have people read you, the general wisdom is that posts composed of lists to get more readers.  Look at the top articles on aggregating sites like Digg and you’ll always find lists.

That being said, here are my favorite lists of this week.  This list is focused mostly how  to do things better online,  with a bonus two for fun thrown in.  They tend to be a bit inside baseball about creating websites with a sprinkling of Twitter and social media.

• 7 Screenshot Capturing Tools For Windows – Several different approaches for capturing screenshots in Windows.  Seven? Well, maybe not actually seven.
• 16 Windows Live Writer Plugins For Bloggers –  If you want to write blog entries on Windows and don’t want to use your blog’s backend — Microsoft’s free Windows Live Writer is your best best.  Here’s a list of plug-ins to give it even more power.
• 50 Sites That Will Help You To Become a Better Designer – Tutorials and resources to help you learn and improve your designs.
• 35 WordPress Theme Releases for April 2009 – WordPress the software for most blogs — 35 themes to make yours look different than the other 1 million sites.  Enquiring Mimes, as do all Bluefugue media sites, uses the Thesis theme.
• 25 Inspirational 3D Typography Designs – Want to try 3D Type in your projects?
• 5 Great Web Design Resources – More website help.
• 13 Twitter Tips and Tutorials for Beginners – How to start Twittering from the very cogent Blog and Twitter-meister Darren Rowse.
• The Best Niche Social Media News Sites Right Now – A good selection of specialized social media news sites.
• 16 Biggest Tech No-Nos – A little technical and online ettiquette

The last  two are from cracked.com a site that has made lists an art.  For your amusement.

• The 7 Most Horrifying Parasites on the Planet – The picture at the lead is from this list, it’s a parasite that eats a fish’s tongue and replaces the tongue with itself, rather a la Alien.
• When Lobster Was Spam- 5 Gourmet Foods That Used to be Cheap – Amongst others, how do polenta become fancy?

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