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Planning your tasks each day is a vital part of successful business. If you are easily distracted, especially if your job involves spending a lot of time using the Internet, you will need to ensure you manage your time, tasks and distractions effectively.

Microsoft Small Business Center reminds owners of small and medium-sized businesses to take a holiday to recharge our batteries, but to be sure to plan for our absence in advance:

Wired's editor Chris Anderson seems to think the Web is dead (includes ripostes by John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly).

Others disagree (sort of).

Alan Patrick points out that this is simply how it has always been — we have always used the Internet without using the Web — think of email, VoIP (e.g. Skype), Internet-connected computer games etc. and the Internet existed long before the Web.

Inspired by design and usability guru Jakob Nielsen's insightful and relevant original post from 2005 about weblogs which is still very relevant today, CMSWire provide their top 3 usability tips for building better blogs, and maximizing engagement.

HTML5 defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the Web. In a recently published work the W3C details the differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5 and provides insight into the thinking behind the changes.