Written on June 27th, 2006 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

A - Z of Professional Blogging Tools

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Following is my A to Z of Professional blogging including blogging tools, blogging platforms, blogging services and ways of making money from blogging (in fact whether you blog for money or not much of what follows should help you improve your blogging).
I hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your own tools and […]

Written on June 26th, 2006 at 03:06 pm by Darren Rowse

Blogger, Rafat Ali, Raises VC Dollars

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Yet another blogger, Rafat Ali from Paid Content, has raised Venture capital for his blogging business according to his announcement post today.

Rafat explains the investment saying that the investment comes from Alan Patricof and that the amount will not be disclosed.

What will Rafat do with the invested money?

“We’ll be hiring a journalist in NYC, starting […]

Written on June 26th, 2006 at 10:06 am by Darren Rowse

Blog Network Owner Shares ‘Mistakes I’ve Made’

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Mac Slocum at The Independent Publisher is reflecting upon the first year of development of his Fodder Network and has written a post on the five biggest mistakes that he’s made along the road so far.

Mistake No. 1: Underestimating the Time Commitment - I suspect this is something many bloggers with dreams of developing multiple […]

Written on June 26th, 2006 at 10:06 am by Darren Rowse

ecto for Windows 2.1 beta Released

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Ecto (the blog editor) has released ecto for Windows 2.1 beta. I’d be interested to hear what people think of this new Windows based version.
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Written on June 25th, 2006 at 06:06 pm by Darren Rowse

10 Things Every Reader Wants from a Writer

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Liz at Successful Blog has a good list of 10 Things Every Reader Wants from a Writer.
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Written on June 24th, 2006 at 05:06 pm by Darren Rowse

Thankful Blogging Catches On

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It looks like the idea of Giving Thanks for traffic is going a little viral - ok it’s not a full blown virus but it’s nice to see others doing it too. Thanks to Spinopsys, Trevor, Christian and the Retrospector for passing on the thanks.

Anyone else feeling thankful - share the love, post a list […]

Written on June 24th, 2006 at 11:06 am by Darren Rowse

MeCommerce - A Bookshop on your Blog’s Sidebar

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Good Storm is working on a service for bloggers called MeCommerce which effectively puts a little book, DVD and CD store right on your sidebar.

At a first look it doesn’t seem much different to running Amazon ads in your side bar until you click one of the products highlighted when the process of ordering the […]

Written on June 24th, 2006 at 08:06 am by Darren Rowse

Blogger Gets Yahoo Internship

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Congratulations to PaulStamatiou.com for landing a ‘Blogger Internship’ at Yahoo - another blogger finding indirect opportunities opening up as a result of their blogging activities. I’m predicting that the second half of 2006 that we’ll see a lot more of this type of thing.

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Written on June 24th, 2006 at 03:06 am by Darren Rowse

25 To Do Lists Services

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If you’re as disorganized as I can be at my worst you might find Solution Watch’s post titled 25 To Do Lists to Stay Productive a helpful one. Yes it’s a list of 25 ‘to do list’ services to help you get organized.

I’ve been meaning to find a good to do list for a while […]