Now you can use WordPress on your Blackberry Phone. You can view this short video but don’t stop there keep going and then download the application to your phone. Oh, and if you need help you can always post a question in the Blackberry Forum. Have Fun!

Are you still doing your blogging exercises? Well here are four (4) search engines I challenge you to add to your blogging bold workout. In addition, you can submit your own blog to some of them.

Blogdigger
Blogdigger is a search engine for RSS and blogs. Blogdigger uses state of the art syndication technologies, such as RSS and Atom, to index blog content and make it available for search. Blogdigger searches thousands of RSS and Atom feeds, and is built-in to many popular News Aggregators, such as FeedDemon and NetNewsWire.

Blogpulse
BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs.
Icerocket
IceRocket is an Internet search engine which specializes in real-time search. Based in Dallas, Texas, it launched in 2004 hoping to market itself solely through word of mouth.

Technorati
Technorati Has a Directory of the top 100 as ranked by Technorati Authority.
The Top 100 is updated once per day.

One of my good friends Heidi Caswell has an awesome blog called WordPress 101 for Baby Boomers. Now, I am not going tie up your time talking about it. I want you to visit and soak up some of these powerful video tutorials.

My eye is on the tutorial on What to do if Your Site gets hacked. Why? Because I have had a few sites hacked and you feel so violated. Uggh.

So, trot on over and learn, learn, learn.

Of course, I plan to post more from this site that is so good it should be illegal. Ha

When is the membership site coming Heidi?

What do baby boomer bloggers blog about? This is not a trick question. After reading many baby boomer bloggers I have concluded that they blog about most of the things everyone blogs about. They blog about:

• Entertainment
• Politics
• Health
• Conspiracy theories
• Food
• Sex
• Relationships
• Children
• Grandchildren
• Caregiving
• Finances
• Pensions
• Technology
• Social media

Ok, perhaps many of those below the age of 50 are not blogging about pensions and their care giving may be with children and not parents. Yet, the general topic areas are the same. What makes the difference, in my opinion, is the expertise and experience that baby boomers bring to the table.

What do you think?

Yes, you can get great blogging ideas by setting up a Google Alert. If you Google-Google Alerts you will find an easy way to specify a topic you want to get notifications about in your email. For example, if you love pet rocks then every time pet rocks are mentioned online you will get an alert. Now those alerts can be “as it happens”, daily, weekly or monthly.

If you find a blog post you like you can post it on your site or refer to it. You can make your own comments and if you use their permalink a trackback will be sent to them. So now you have created a blog post.

Try it. If you want me to post a video or tutorial let me know.

You are probably wondering, “What are boomer thoughts? Well, for me it is all that happens in the life of a baby boomer. Those are the things that many of us blog about.

One of the great things about blogging is that it provides a voice for many of us who sometimes feel that no one is listening in our immediate circles. Some of the thoughts include:

• Caregiving
• Pension
• Retirement options
• Retirement issues
• Purpose driven work
• Work to add to retirement
• Grand children and related joys and issues
• Children and related joys and issues
• Grief from loved ones missing in our lives
• Mates
• Making money online and offline
• Health, health, health
• Collections
• Music
• Art
• Hobbies
• Dating
• Life after Divorce
• Oh, did I already say caregiving?

Now I did not include everything. You can add more. But are you blogging about any of these things? Please share what is on your mind that you are blogging about.  I know it is one of the reasons some of you have more than one blog.

I am preparing for a blog class and saw this video on Youtube. I think it is pretty good so I thought it would be a nice post. It is very basic but a good refresher. Yes, I know I could have done it myself but this is pretty good. Hope you enjoy it.

Here is another great baby boomer blog carnival. There are lot’s of blogging ideas plus an opportunity to leave comments. Let other baby boomer blogger know what you think about their blogging. After all, we boomers must stay together and support each other. Click on this recent blog carnival here.

The blog, Baby Boomer Entrepreneur, has a blog carnival you  don’t want to miss. Sometimes it helps to not only connect with other baby boomer bloggers but to know what is going on in the baby boomer blogging world. Take a few minutes to read the current blog carnival. Enjoy!

I’m back to blogging. Yes, caretaker duties have slowed me down. Plus, I am doing Ebay and Etsy to increase my retirement fund. But blogging just should not be stopped. Don’t you agree?

I am convinced that we baby boomers should keep a pad and pencil, Ipod or IPad around to jot down blogging post ideas. When we do get our hot hands on a computer keyboard we should try to create a post from some of our ideas. But, that all sounds good when your eyes and body are not tired.

Tonight I decided to upgrade my version of WordPress and some of the plug-ins. Time to get back to blogging. I will not give up! I am a baby boomer and we know about resilience.

Yet, we all need encouragement from each other. So, if you noticed that I have not blogged in a few nano months please encourage me. I will also try to encourage you.

Have a great weekend.