Written on July 12th, 2007 at 12:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Speedlinking - 12 July 2007
- 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.
11 Responses to “Speedlinking - 12 July 2007”
Jason
July 12th, 2007 12:44 pm
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
Dan Cole
July 12th, 2007 1:11 pm
Cool… I when people tell me about websites they read.
Dan Cole
July 12th, 2007 1:26 pm
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.
Terra Andersen
July 12th, 2007 2:20 pm
Great link love! Thanks!
Terra Andersen
July 12th, 2007 2:31 pm
Great link love- Thanks!
Jeremy Steele
July 12th, 2007 3:49 pm
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.
Samir
July 12th, 2007 5:35 pm
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.
Shai Coggins
July 12th, 2007 5:37 pm
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/
Dean Hunt
July 12th, 2007 7:23 pm
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
Ari Shohat
July 13th, 2007 1:00 am
Darren, congrats to b5media with the new music channel, very nice and the blogs do look very interesting!
Fable
July 13th, 2007 7:41 pm
Another awesome post, Darren! Some very useful links for us to check out indeed. :)
Steve
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