We have been messing around with Pligg, a digg-like social CMS (content management system).
First we made wagthis.com hosted on Dreamhost but after running for a month the shared server seems to go down a lot.
Since then, we made a new one with better hardware on wagg.it.
(It took us like a month to register the domain name through a european registry but we were finally able to get it working…)

It’s a blog voting community where you can submit your blog posts and other bloggers can vote on posts. It’s still experimental at this point but check it out and if your blog post in on there, make sure to wagg it!

Check it out and leave your thought on how we can make it better.

You might have notice the Wagg It widget on our posts, you can get one too here:

(Help us promote our new blog voting community if you have a blog.)

Add Wagg It button to your blog

Social Bookmarking Plugin for Wordpress

Go Wagg somethin’

Wagg It is a user driven “social blog content” website. What the heck does that mean?
Well, every news on Wagg It is a blog post submitted by waggers (that would be you).
After you submit your content from a blog, other people read your stuff and wagg on it. (Like your dog waggs whenever he/she sees something new)
If your story gets enough waggs, it gets promoted to the front page for all other waggers to see. What can you do as a Wagger?
Every wagger can wagg(help promote) on stories and submit new stories from any blogs.(Think of it as Technorati except you can vote on it.)
Want to share a video or news story with a friend? Wagg it!

Is blogging a tax deductable home business? You betcha your mom’s house!

UPDATE: This is information for the U.S., other countries may have similar tax laws 

As we all know, tax returns are coming soon. I just bought this book on home business tax deduction that tells you that as long as you can prove that you are making some money and you are trying to, you can write off stuff for taxes! (Yes, screw the federal government just for these months!)

Well as you know, I did buy this new laptop which I use 95% solely for the purpose of blogging. If you have Google ads or any type of revenue you are generating with your blog, and you blog mostly out of your home, you can declare yourself as Home Business! Well, I am not a tax expert but you can also deduct part of your rent if you rent an apartment like us. For example, if you use your living room as office, (or where you blog) and your living room is 50% of your house or apartment, you can write off 50% of your rent money as tax deductible rental!

Yey, maybe blogging was worth it since we are really running low on funds from spending too much on making various different websites over the last 6 months.

[We are not responsible though if IRS comes after you...]

Check out these websites, some of have gone south but some are still hanging on there…

Yes, you can declare your blog as a home business! Write off all the munches you are eating while blogging, all the gas spent driving to other bloggers, and any money you spend on on blogging! (That does give bloggers more incentives to keep blogging around. )

Zedomax Websites:

Zedomax - Yey, this is our first blog and a website we can call a website

Da Bomb TV - This one we just made for fun to see how videos can affect people

SFBlogg - A localized blog for San Francisco and the Bay Area which we never have time to post anything so it’s in hibernation right now until we can quit our jobs… :p

Zikiwiki - An online technical documentation wiki, our first wiki using MediaWiki, which powers the Wikipedia.

WagThis! - A social bookmarking system that we made for fun after getting kicked off digg for hacking. You can wag this and wag that like a dog! Well the only problem with this one is that it’s running on a shared server and it’s just too slow but maybe we can do something with it in the future…after we quit our jobs…

HollywoodStars - (Adult ONLY) - Here’s a fun site that collects some celebrity news! (Don’t TELL anyone we made it! Shhh!)

Okay, so you got the idea, we are making some fun and bogus sites so check them out if you are bored and need some entertainment while doing your blog taxes! :0)

Here’s a cool video of a freaky overclocking chip cooler from CES.

Wow, this is one cool keyboard I wanna get.

Here’s a video from CES 2007 showing RSS Feeds coming to life from your computer screen to a physical LCD on your desktop. This shouldn’t be too hard to make but maybe making like a podcast device would be…

This would be great for making some custom images on your carpet!

Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode

Here’s a cool video of using lemons to power an LED! (which is about 1.8 to 3V!)

Now, how many Lemons do we need to power a 60 watt light bulb?

Yes, take a Nintendo Wii and put some creativity with some work to get a custom built wii laptop!

Here’s a cool gadget for those who own spas, it’s a color changing LED bulb that will replace
your exisiting spa light.
via wagthis