According to some old Bible verse, you reap what you sow. Alternatively, you can hop over your neighbour's fence and reap the crap out of their tasty, tasty harvest. They sow, you reap. Everybody wins!

Twitter is reportedly testing a feature on its Android app that would automatically reformat large blocks of text into long self-reply threads, or tweetstorms. This would ruin Twitter, which has already been ruined multiple times by new features.

Over the past two decades, the world wide web has massively changed the way we live, communicate and do business. The internet is responsible for trillions of dollars in direct and indirect revenue annually and its importance will only continue to grow. This infographic from Hosting Facts is a fascinating compendium of internet facts and statistics from across the globe; from the country with the highest internet penetration (Bermuda) to the number of active Facebook users in the world (lots).

Dear Lifehacker, I'm planning on starting a blog mainly to vent about issues surrounding the niche industry I work in. While I won't be doing anything illegal, it would certainly not go down well with my current employer and clients. Do you have any tips for remaining anonymous?

Dear Lifehacker, I'm trying to start my own blog but am finding it difficult to find images I can use. Any ideas? Thanks, Picture Imperfect

Finding the time to read everything you want to online is tough. Podcastomatic is a webapp that makes it a little easier by converting your favourite blogs into podcasts.

Other that placing ads with lots of pictures on websites, advertising a house for sale hasn't changed hugely in recent years. So we were intrigued when a friend of ours, Lloyd Borrett, has launched an all-out digital strategy for selling his home.

Do you have a blog? Do you want to be able to reach more people in a more advanced way but don't have the code writing ability to create your own Android app? No worries... Feed.nu does all the hard work for you.

If you're looking for a few good blogs to follow on a certain topic, Google's Blog Search might not, oddly, be the best place to look. Instead, use the drop-down, left-side box to single out blog homepages in search results.

Setting up your own blog is pretty easy, but assessing whether it's up-to-date and performs OK is another matters. Is My Blog Working? rates your site on a number of criteria, including whether your hosting and server software is up-to-date and how quickly pages and feeds load.

Chrome: You can use "Just Don't Look" as a strategy for avoiding less-than-helpful web comments, but your eyes will often defeat you. No Comments elegantly removes the comments section from many sites, but lets you turn the worthy comments back on.

Whether you're looking to share photos with family or trying to start your own online business, code-free web site builder Moonfruit aims to cover your needs.

Fancy adding a topic-specific headline feed to your blog or site? Google has just added the ability to generate an automatic Google News box (which it brands as a NewsShow), either covering broad topics or specific keywords. If you're programming-friendly, you can work directly with the News API, but most users will probably just settle for the wizard that automatically creates code to paste into your blog or site template. It'd be nice to see a wider range of formats, but it's still an easy way to put some topical links on your site. NewsShow Wizard

You don't want anyone in your online social network to think you're boring, but it's often hard to come up with updates that are punchy and amusing. Save yourself from being unfollowed on Twitter or abused by your Facebook pals with Plinky. Plinky asks questions (like "name three songs you would put on a road trip mix tape" or "Defend your vice") and then builds them into posts which anyone can view. You can set up Plinky to automatically feed updates to Facebook, Twitter and a bunch of blogging services, including WordPress, Blogger, TypePad and LiveJournal. New prompts get supplied each day (and you can suggest future prompts to the service). It's no substitute for real creativity, but we all know there are days when that is in short supply. Plinky is free, requires signup. Thanks Mark J!Plinky

US President Barack Obama's campaign embraced technology like none before, so it's no surprise that the new face of the White House on the web comes complete with a brand new White House blog. If you want to keep up with the latest from the Oval Office blog, just drop the WhiteHouse.gov blog feed into your newsreader.

Search site IceRocket gives near-real-time results from the web, blogs, Twitter, news sites, images, and videos (phew), but its Big Buzz feature conveniently mashes it all onto one page. For those "What's going on?" moments—such as when, say, a plane crashes into the Hudson River—it's a great spot to get a quick scan of what's going on, and what's being said, on one page. IceRocket's advanced preferences open up some results-cropping tools. For those looking for a serious bathing in information, you can also grab an RSS feed from your search results. IceRocket is free to use. IceRocket Big Buzz

Voting for the 2008 Weblog Awards closes soon, and our gadget-obsessed sibling title Gizmodo needs your support in the Best Australia or New Zealand blog category. So case your vote over at the the awards site, and give Nick and the team something to brighten their day. Remember, it's all about the geeks!

YackTrack is a comment tracking service. If you've ever wondered who is talking about a blog post or news article you can enter the URL and see who is talking about it and where. YackTrack currently tracks comments on Blogger/Blogspot, Digg, Disqus, FriendFeed, Google Blog Search, Google Reader, IntenseDebate, Mixx, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati, TypePad/MoveableType and WordPress blogs. Additionally there is a "Chatter" function that lets you search for key words instead of single URLs. On the time saving side of things it's possible to set up a bookmarklet to help you search YackTrack and you can turn a search term into an RSS feed to plug it into your favourite reader and stay abreast of new comments. YackTrack

Windows only: Windows Live Writer, Microsoft's multi-platform blogging tool, was one of many Live Essentials apps that recently received a few upgrades, and they're really helpful for anyone writing on the web. Most helpful in this release candidate, for anyone writing a blog on Live.com, Blogger, WordPress, MovableType, or any other supported platform, is the ability to search through local drafts and published posts for text in any post, letting you get at older posts for editing and unfinished ideas quickly. WordPress.com and self-installed WordPress users get the same kind of auto-completing tags as on their site editors, and new plug-ins for Writer have been released that let you upload and link pictures from Flickr, auto-tweet your posts on Twitter, and do more. New to Live Writer? Head over to blogger Jared Goralnick's tips and tweaks for Windows Live Writer. The release candidate of Windows Live Writer 2009 is a free download for Windows systems only.

Windows Live Writer 2009