Alright this past week alot have been going on. I was very active on Balkhis as well as I was very active in the web community. I am putting my hands in just about everywhere. So what is going on in my life. Well this coming week is exam week, so I had to pre-plan all the posts for this week. Stressed out about that. I have also started updating my twitter more frequently, so if you are on twitter than check out my twitter profile. Hopefully by the end of April or early May, I will be starting another blog, so keep your eyes open for that.

I do have plans to launch a premium theme service soon, and possibly another free theme coming out in the near future. Alright so Balkhis users have you seen what has been going on Balkhis? No well here is a week in the review:

25 Sure-Fire Ways to Become a Better Designer

Effective Forum Posting Rules led me to 2739 visitors monthly from forums

Random Header Images for Your Blog

Top 15 Beautiful Free Fonts for Professional Designs

Good Read around the blogosphere

13 Twitter Tips and Tutorials for Beginners

30 Creative Illustrative Header Designs

40 Brilliant Gmail Hacks and Secrets

3 Factors to Consider when submitting to a directory

5 Reasons for Blog Success

How Gary Vaynerchuk built a multi-million dollar empire around a video blog

Well those are the reads above which I enjoyed this week. I will be working my ass off for the next month to make all projects possible and get you guys a new theme hopefully. I am not playing basketball for atleast like a month in a team because doctors said I have inflammation in my left foot which might become severe tendonitis if I don’t take care of it.

Well guys this week’s tip is Join Twitter if you haven’t and follow me.

I got this shirt a while ago but I got around to posting this today. Good people at Market Leverage sent me this cool shirt. We all know about their I’m Blogging This shirt that they gave out to a lot of bloggers at many conferences and their mails. John Chow even wore it at Izea Conference Last year.

Well they sent me another one which is branded with my site. It says Balkhis is Blogging This. Isn’t that so cool. I wore it today and will be wearing it all day. I think this is the coolest idea of branding that anyone could think of. They have their logo in the back and the front, but it have my site’s name. Why not. Thanks Market Leverage.

Another week coming to an end. This week I got banned from digg. Woo that was fun because I found out that they just ban about anyone who they really think. They confused me with someone else. Anyways, I have decided that I will give them a call. I got a number of the person incharge at digg from a source that shall not be identified. I will update you guys what happens when I talk to this person at digg. Aside from that the exciting thing that happened this week was that I upgraded to WP 2.7. If you want to know why I didn’t for so long you can read in this post. Tomorrow I will be posting about what changed my mind. Another exciting thing that happened this week was my revenue boosted. And I will also post about that tomorrow, so keep your eyes open.

13 Quick tips to Make Your Blog Stand out from the crowd

100 Beautiful Free Textures

Website Backgrounds: 70+ Impressive Trends

10 websites to help you master GIMP

I wrote a series post on Balkhis that you should read if you want to get backlinks from top bloggers.

How Not To Ask For Links To Your Blog

How To Ask For Links To Your Blog

Another Monday is here. Woot Woot. Glad to say that today Balkhis is 1 year old. Yeah no special party for that. I will do one though when it turns 5 year old. Anyways, Life is going good so far. I made a digg account, hit the FP the first day then ended up getting banned. Digg said that I obtained false diggs or some BS which was lame because I only had 47 friends and only 38 were mutual. So I couldn’t have obtained fake diggs. I didn’t submit my own article either, it was some other article from cnn.

Aside from that we are looking for sponsors for a Break Dancing event in Gainesville, that will be attracting over 5000+ audience. I know I am sponsoring it. Red Bull is sponsoring it. I have sent emails to few other companies and waiting to hear from them, but if you guys want your logo in a pamphlet that is being hand out all over University of Florida then contact me. Donations of a large amount also get to put their banner on the stage. We are looking for either cash prizes, or materials equivalent value that will interest Hip Hop Industry.

Pittsburgh Steelers won their 6th superbowl most ever by a single franchise. Amazing game.

I have been doing some reading lately.

Designs of 404 Error Pages

10 Seriously useful Photoshop Tutorials

Website and Social Media Metric that you should monitor

Why Blogging is an Undisputed Culture

Posts you should’ve read on Balkhis

Feedburner to Google – The earlier you move, the less you will lose

Case Study: Authority Status in Google Boost your Search Engine Ranking and Traffic

List of Wordpress Plugins being used on Balkhis

Ok another monday is here. This week is a tough one. I have some exams and a paper due. It just feels like I was done with the finals few weeks before and they are back again. This week not a lot is going on in my life, so I will just put some of the useful reads that I came around and found it interesting.

30 Useful Open Source Apps for Web Designers

22 Most Used Free Fonts used by Professional Designers – Balkhis logo font is there. Cicle, I think should rank really high because I use it a lot.

10 Ways to Increase your Twitter Followers – Don’t think this article is just another wannabe blogger trying to get some readers. This is from Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg who right now have 88,000 followers on twitter. Which is the second highest following after President Obama.

250,000 People Showed up at my blog – Darren Rowse got a big hit day, and see what he says about his experience.

Top 15 Countries with Internet Population – With Internet population passing one billion check out the top 15 countries and see where your audience relies.

That is all for this week. Have a nice week and keep a lookout for my latest post.