Web Worker Daily

How blogging helps businesses — Dave Taylor says, “If you are willing to share your experience, expertise and insight into your own industry, you will gain readers and fans, and they will spread the word. Then you’ll gain publicity through mainstream media and that visibility will clearly translate into increased sales.” [The Intuitive Life Business Blog]

Building your personal brand through your blog — Darren Rowse recommends that you work hard at building trust, using narrative, establishing expertise, and showing generosity, among other things. [ProBlogger]

Mousepad convergence — Sunday Electronics Technology offers a mousepad that includes a calculator, card reader, thermometer, and USB hub. That’s more than I want out of a mousepad. [Gadget Lab]

Finally! A Hello Kitty laptop! — Here I was thinking that screen size, battery life, and hardware specs were what mattered to female professionals. But this reporter says that the new pink crystal-encrusted laptop is NEC’s “latest effort to woo working women.” Sadly, it’s only available in Japan. [Examiner.com]

Who needs a laptop anyway? — If I can’t have a Hello Kitty laptop, maybe I’ll just forget the whole thing and start working out of cybercafes that rent out computers by the hour or day. I could use jooce for a private online desktop with public file sharing capabilities. [jooce]

New York Times double-click dictionary killer — Does the NY Times double-click dictionary make you insane? I never knew I randomly double-clicked on web pages until the NY Times implemented this incredibly annoying feature. Here’s a Greasemonkey script to eliminate it. [Userscripts.org]

MacGoogle Office — Om Malik is craving offline web apps from a certain two companies. [GigaOM]