Written on May 25th, 2006 at 06:05 am by Darren Rowse

Feedburner Updates Free Stats Package

Blogging Tools and Services 6 comments

Feedburner has announced a couple of updates to what they are offering in their free stats package including ‘Live Hits’ (the ability to see the last 25 hits via your feed (how long the 25 hits were over and what agent they used to read your feed) and ‘Yesterdays News’ (the ability to track your […]

Written on May 25th, 2006 at 02:05 am by Darren Rowse

How to Recruit Bloggers

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 13 comments

Chris has written a really useful post at Performancing on Recruiting Blogging Partners to write on your blogs. His tips are well thought out and very practical from someone who has some experience. I particularly like this:

“I have found the best place to look for long-haul bloggers are blogs. People who have maintained a decent […]

Written on May 24th, 2006 at 11:05 pm by

Alternablog: Videocast

Blogging Tools and Services, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 5 comments

This post has been submitted by regular contributor - Aaron Brazell
The past few weeks, I’ve been running a mini-series about different kinds of blogging. The first entry in the series was about moblogging and the use of mobile technology to update and post to a blog. Last week, we talked about a topic […]

Written on May 24th, 2006 at 10:05 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense changes default Ads to Borderless Ads

Adsense 13 comments

AdSense have emailed publishers today telling them that they’ve changed their default ad design to be a borderless ones. Their email reads:

“We’re writing to let you know about a coming change to the appearance of your Google ads. Your ads currently display the default Google color palette, Seaside (formerly known as Mother Earth). In the […]

Written on May 24th, 2006 at 01:05 pm by Darren Rowse

Idol Blogger Crashes Server and Teaches us a Lesson about Hosting

Pro Blogging News 63 comments

I just came across a story that makes me quite angry but also has an important lesson in it for bloggers on shared servers. It concerns the story of idolbloglive.com - a blog about Amercian Idol.

As you’d expect with a blog on the topic of American Idol it’s a blog that has had a bit […]

Written on May 24th, 2006 at 01:05 pm by Darren Rowse

Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers - Reader Submissions - Part 1

Pro Blogging News 5 comments

Thanks to the many bloggers who have been responding to my group writing project on the topic of ‘habits of highly effective bloggers’.

I’ve created a central page for linking to all of the submissions from readers here and started the list off with the submissions below. It’s not too late to join in - I’d […]

Written on May 24th, 2006 at 12:05 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense tell Publishers about Video Ads

Adsense 5 comments

The official AdSense blog has just put up a post announcing the Introduction of video ads to publishers (they announced it to advertisers yesterday - why they don’t do simultaneous announcements I’m unsure).

They clarify a few points (most of which we’d guessed to be true):

“Video ads will compete in the same auction as text and […]

Written on May 24th, 2006 at 10:05 am by Darren Rowse

Cooking Up a Storm Over Blog Copyright

Pro Blogging News 16 comments

I’ve just stumbled across and interesting discussion on a cooking blog that seems to have overstepped the mark when it comes to using another cooking blog’s content.

Head over the Culinary Arts Simple Shepards Pie recipe and then to Simple Recipes Easy Shepherd’s Pie recipe.

The Culinary Arts version gives a credit link to the Simple […]

Written on May 24th, 2006 at 07:05 am by Darren Rowse

A Guide to writing good email…. and blog posts?

Writing Content 17 comments

There’s a nice post over at blue flavor on how to write good email - an author’s guide which as someone who gets a lot of email I wish everyone would read. It’s got some great common sense tips.

I wonder if there are a few good tips for bloggers writing blog posts buried away within […]