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A site to find or submit great gardening articles

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I just visited a website called Thoof for the first time. Thoof is a site that offers personalized news. By this I mean that it contains news articles, videos, websites and photographs from sources all over the world.

You can search through the site as a visitor for any topic that interests you, but once you become a registered member of the site Thoof keeps track of what you’ve been reading or searching for on the site and provides a personalized page for you that contains all of the stories that suit your personal taste.

I wanted to tell you about Thoof today because I used it to search for gardening articles and it returned three fantastic articles that I can use to get ideas for my own garden, or perhaps even write about in my own way on this site. Now I’m sure that the next time I log into Thoof it will show me any new gardening articles that have been added to the site since my last visit.

The article that I found most interesting was called “Beyond the Garden” and it discusses landscape architecture, particularly in the form of the green roof. This is something that has interested me for quite a while. I can’t create a green roof on my current home, but if I ever purchase a house where I might be able to do this you can bet I’ll be creating a green roof. Yet another area to garden in and it will help keep my home cool in the summer!

Since registered members of Thoof can actually submit articles either by filling out a short form on the site or by using a bookmarking tool in their browser I might submit my own gardening articles and those of any other gardening blogs that I find interesting and helpful.

In this way I can use Thoof to promote our gardening hobby and the authors who have written fantastic gardening related articles too. Would you be interested in doing something like that as well?

Of course you can go to the site and read any of the top stories or submit articles about pretty much any topic. Articles about Sicko – Michael Moores latest movie, seems to be the hottest topic on Thoof today. I just chose to focus on gardening because it can be hard to find excellent gardening articles – particularly on current news related sites.

Visit the site for yourself and see if you can find some articles of interest. Remember, you can always submit articles that you enjoy as well.






The Hoodia Weight Loss Blog

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I’m sure that you keep hearing about a weight loss product called hoodia. It’s advertised on TV, radio and more than likely in magazines and newspapers.

Hearing about it is one thing, but how much do you know about this natural weight loss product? Probably not that much.

If you are interested in losing weight and would like to learn more about using a natural weight loss product such as Hoodia click on the link above to visit the new weight loss blog.

This new blog discusses the side effects of Hoodia, shows before and after photos of those that have used Hoodia to lose weight, the history of Hoodia and information about the plant that it’s derived from and more.

I found the articles in the blog to be very informative. Check it out for yourself.

Get your Newgie News

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I’ve been using a new site to view news lately. You’re going to love the name – It’s called Newgie.com. I’ve been using the site to stay on top of the news that I’m interested in hearing about.

It’s very easy to register on the site and once you are a member (free) you can start selecting news categories that you want to see when you first visit your Newgie page. The site ranks stories based on the interest that other users have shown. Which means that when you log in you have the hottest stories of the day literally right before your very eyes.

Newgie is very easy to use. You can navigate in two major ways. You can go to your My Newgie page and if you’ve already set up your preferences all the stories from the topics and categories that you selected will be there for you to browse through. Otherwise, you can click on your My account page and set up your preferences there, see the stories that you’ve viewed most recently, and manage your categories, RSS feeds and communities.

It was easy to start selecting categories that I was interested in. You can do all of this from your account page. Just scroll down to the categories section on your account page, then click on “Manage my categories”, from there you can see which ones you’ve subscribed to already or add more categories. Once you’ve selected the types of categories that you like you can adjust the options for each one- such as how many articles it will show you, their rank, and whether it will show you the full article or just a summary to begin with.

You can pick articles that you’ve read and rate them – just hover over the title of the article and description pops up – when you see the pop up you can add the article to your favorites, rate it, recommend it for other Newgies, or discuss it.

Before trying out this news site I used to visit Yahoo News quite often. What is different about Newgie is that when you log on you see the most popular articles of the day in your categories, where as on Yahoo News you get a mix of everything and they’re not always the top stories that you are hoping to find. I think I might like Newgie better than the Yahoo News site.

Newgie also lets you submit your own RRS feed to the site. If it’s approved you can create a Newgie chicklet so that others can add your feed to their newgie account.

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