Archive for: December, 2006
Written on December 21st, 2006 at 07:12 pm by Darren Rowse
Speedlinking - 21 December 2006
Blogger Beta came out of beta a couple of days back. So I’d be interested in hearing Blogger user’s reviews. Do tell!
WSJ has published an opinion piece on bloggers and how we’re a mob. The irony is that bloggers everywhere are joining together to storm the paper’s website like an angry…. mob.
Eric has released a […]
Written on December 21st, 2006 at 11:12 am by Darren Rowse
ecto for Windows 2.2 released
Blog desktop editor ecto for Windows 2.2 has been released. New features include:
Added Flickr Search support for image upload.
Added more robust data saving to guard against OS crashing.
Added support for CSS style/class for image upload.
Added support for generic tag format (e.g. Ultimate Tag Warrior)
Added GoDaddy.com’s Quick Blog to the preset list of blog type in […]
Written on December 21st, 2006 at 06:12 am by Darren Rowse
Google Gives Clarification on Duplicate Content
If you’ve ever wondered what Google does and doesn’t clasify as ‘duplicate content’ then you might find this explanation of it on their official Webmaster blog.
A few snippets:
“What is duplicate content?
Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar. Most of […]
Written on December 21st, 2006 at 02:12 am by Darren Rowse
Blogging Wills - What happens to your Blogs When You Die?
Eric Giguere asks an interesting question over at his blog - Do you have an “AdSense Will”?
It is actually a question V (my wife) and I have talked about and made plans for over the past year or so.
It became more serious for us to talk about when we realized that our family’s main […]
Written on December 20th, 2006 at 09:12 pm by Darren Rowse
More Reviews and Predictions - Group Writing Project Day 2
It’s day 2 of the ‘Reviews and Predictions‘ group writing project and I really enjoyed reading this next batch of entries. In fact I spent way to much time reading blogs today and not enough time posting! It just amazes me every day what a massive variety of blog topics are out there.
My pick of […]
Written on December 20th, 2006 at 11:12 am by Darren Rowse
Speedlinking - 20 December 2006
Lifehacker: the book has now started shipping through Amazon. I’ve ordered mine. Another example of leveraging a blog to make money.
Aviva Directory has a list of 99 tips to do branding on the cheap. It’s written for Web Startups but a lot of it could apply to bloggers.
Are any ProBlogger readers coming to the Underground […]
Written on December 20th, 2006 at 08:12 am by Darren Rowse
Google Release 2006 Zeitgeist Report
Two weeks ago it was Yahoo sharing the most searched for terms in it’s engine - today Google shares theirs with their annual Zeitgeist Report.
Google’s top searches for the year:
1. bebo
2. myspace
3. world cup
4. metacafe
5. radioblog
6. wikipedia
7. video
8. rebelde
9. mininova
10. wiki
The top searches on Google News:
1. paris hilton
2. orlando bloom
3. cancer
4. podcasting
5. hurricane katrina
6. […]
Written on December 20th, 2006 at 01:12 am by Darren Rowse
Online Etiquette and the Culture of a Blog
Michael Moncur has written a thoughtful post asking Whatever happened to online etiquette? which bounces off (and largely rejects) the NYT piece by David Pogue of the same name.
I think Michael makes some worthwhile points - particularly in his third point about Anonymity and fifth point about content inspiring community.
Anonymity - while some do like […]
Written on December 19th, 2006 at 08:12 pm by Darren Rowse
Group Writing Project - Day 1
Day 1 of the Reviews and Predictions Group Writing Project is over and 55 submissions have arrived in my inbox from readers who are competing for the $2500 in prizes.
This round includes a few posts from our sponsors themselves (they’re not in the running for prizes but wanted to participate in the fun too). Alongside […]
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