- Common Craft shares some of the behind the scenes story of how they make their great videos – they’ve been producing some great work lately and it’s great to see how they’re doing it.
- Dean starts a series today on Buzz and Viral Marketing.
- Read Write Web has been hot lately with some great posts – including Blog Platforms Head to Head: Six Apart and Automattic Compared.
- Self Made Minds shares how they increased the CTR on their most profitable AdSense ad unit.
- London Times Online has an article today – Blogging for Dosh – I even got a quote or two in!
- Some scary statistics about comment spam – and people wonder why I get worked up about the topic! By the way – sometime in the next 24 hours Akismet will stop the 1.5 millionth spam comment on this blog!
- b5media launched it’d new Music Channel this week – with 21 music focused blogs on everything from Crooners, to Australian Music (yay!) to Jazz and Punk. Disclaimer – I’m a director, employee and shareholder of b5media.
Written on 7/12/2007 at 12:27 pm by
Speedlinking – 12 July 2007
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Thanks for the links, Darren. Always love finding the blogs you read so I can get more feed subscriptions and stay in the know.
~Jason
Cool… I when people tell me about websites they read.
Cool… I love when people tell me about websites they read. Oops, I left out love in my other comment. I wish there was an edit or the ability for me to proofread… my mad.
Great link love! Thanks!
Great link love- Thanks!
Yeah the comment spam problem is getting nuts. Wrote an article about it earlier along with a quick suggestion: if you notice the same IP spamming you, run a search on it on a site like domainwhitepages.com and send a report to the abuse e-mail for that ISP. I started doing that a while back if I received more than 20 spam comments from the same IP, and within a few weeks the spam from that IP would stop.
Thanks for a great selection of links as always Darren.
The Common Craft behind the scenes is eye opening, and I hadn’t ever stumbled upon Self Made Minds so far. Seems to be filled with useful information. Thanks.
And, we’re running a contest giving away iPods, etc in a raffle (in connection with the b5 music channel launch) – http://www.b5media.com/music-channel-launch-contest-win-an-ipod-and-more/
Darren,
Thanks for the mention of the buzz and viral marketing case study. I hope you enjoy it.
I am also doing a “Blogging for charity” challenge at the moment. Where I am trying to guest blog on 150 blogs before christmas.
Contact me if you may be interested.
Speak soon.
Dean
Darren, congrats to b5media with the new music channel, very nice and the blogs do look very interesting!
Another awesome post, Darren! Some very useful links for us to check out indeed. :)
Steve