Amazing, fantastic, fun, exciting . . . news from Amazon:  Bloggers can now (once approved) sell a subscription to their blogs on the Amazon Kindle platform.

You can now publish your blog (or any RSS feed) for sale on the Amazon Kindle store and Amazon will share revenue with you for every Kindle user who subscribes to your feed. And no, you don’t get to price your blog at a thousand bucks a pop, but Amazon will pay you a fixed 30-percent share of whatever your revenue your blog generates.

Here’s How to Publish Your Blog on Kindle

Fill out this form, add the RSS feed of your blog and submit.

Add as many blogs or news feeds to your account as you want.

Once Amazon approves your blog, it will be available to Kindle users on the Amazon Store and also Amazon Associates.

What else do you need to do?

Take an 800x 600 screenshot image of your Blog home page and 430×50 banner or logo of your blog.

Masthead/Banner: The masthead/banner image size should not exceed 430×50 pixels and should be in the file format, GIF, JPEG, TIFF or BMP. The file size of the image should be under 1 MB.

Screenshot: This is the image Amazon.com customers will see while viewing your blog on Amazon.com site. You need to provide a screenshot with a minimum size 800×600 pixels with a GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP are accepted image formats. Also make sure that the file size of the image is under 1 MB.

Kindle Blogs are auto-delivered wirelessly to the Kindle and updated throughout the day. Unlike RSS readers which sometimes only displays headlines, your blog on Kindle displays full text content and most images.

Get out there and start blogging!

Derek Franklin’s software first came across my radar years ago with the release of Search Automator Pro. At the time, I was doing a lot of research – particularly for images – and Search Automator really sped up my online research time.

Yesterday, Derek released The Action Machine, a "get more done" timer that allows users to create specific tasks, set a time to accomplish them, and then be alerted when the time is up.  If you’re thinking "oh great, just another timer", hang on – cause Derek’s software goes above and beyond. (Price is $27) Here’s the deal:  I work on multiple projects throughout the day (like most of us).

For some of my projects, I need to keep close track of my hours because my clients have specified how many hours they want to allot for certain tasks. For other projects (like my own marketing or business development), I could spend hundreds of hours without accomplishing much because I bop from task to task. Unfortunately, I am not the world’s most organized person – I’m far better on the creative end of the process. That’s why I was so drawn to The Action Machine.

The Action Machine really forces me to 1) decide what tasks I need to accomplish today; 2) give them a finite beginning and end; and 3) do them! Today was the first day I put the software into use and I’ve already accomplished several tasks that have been hanging for a week or so. If you click on the screenshot to enlarge, you’ll see that not only did I get my laundry done ! – but also worked on client projects and this afternoon will start the timer on some of my own business projects.

You can use Derek’s default task list that includes items like "eat lunch", "read", "check e-mail", or "grocery shop"; or you can add your own items to the list, delete the default and create a new one, or use a combination of Derek’s list plus your added items. Watch the video to learn how to add occasional or one-time tasks to the timer without making them a part of the default list. Like Search Automator Pro, The Action Machine is a simple piece of software that allows users to complete complex tasks. Everything Derek creates is easy-to-use, highly functional, and priced so low that I’m not sure how he feeds the family! And, because I am an advocate of transparency in business, the link to The Action Machine is an affiliate one. And whether you purchase through that link or not, I hope you pop for the $27 bucks and use this piece of software to increase your productivity.