Meme Trackers
7th of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Meme Trackers

Richard MacManus has a good round up post that takes a look at what he calls the increasing array of Meme Trackers that are pretty popular these days. He ranks Memorandum as the best (he’s a long time fan) but others that he looks at (some that I’d not come ...more
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Comment Design Showcase
7th of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Comment Design Showcase

Smiley Cat has put together a great idea over at their Comment Design Showcase. The page is a collection of screen caps from some beautifully designed comments sections which each link back to the blogs that they are from. It’s great to see them all side by side like that.
Blog Design
Blog Herald For Sale – Take 2
7th of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blog Herald For Sale – Take 2

Those of you who don’t read Blog Herald might have missed the news that the previous sale of that blog fell through in the last week. As a result they’ve started an auction process over at SitePoint Forums. Last time I checked the bidding had risen to $19,000 – still ...more
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Blog Stalkers – Personal Safety for Bloggers
7th of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blog Stalkers – Personal Safety for Bloggers

‘Stalker’ is such a harsh word and one not to be used lightly but in December of last year I realized that I had one. I’ve hinted at this once or twice in this blog and in my email newsletter and some ProBlogger readers did see a few of the ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
State of the Blogosphere – February 2006
6th of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

State of the Blogosphere – February 2006

David Sifry has posted the first part in his latest State of the Blogosphere series of posts. This first one as normal picks up the topic of ‘Blogosphere Growth’. The summary statements: Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half ...more
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How to Make Your Millions through Blogging???
6th of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Make Your Millions through Blogging???

I just saw a blog post on a blog (I’m not going to link to it because it’s a pretty spammy site that pushes splog software and was filled with lots of affiliate ads) that made me laugh (and feel a little depressed all at once). The topic of the ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
coComment – Tracking Blog Comments
6th of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

coComment – Tracking Blog Comments

There’s a fascinating idea being beta tested over at coComment which attempts to help those who leave comments on multiple blogs (as readers) to keep track of those conversations – all in the one place. It also gives you the ability to display these conversations on your own blog if ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Amazon to Launch Contextual Advertising
6th of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Amazon to Launch Contextual Advertising

The word coming out of Amazon today is that they are considering developing a contextual advertising system similar to AdSense. Up until now they have been using Google’s supply of advertisers to fill ads on their sites but wish to cut Google out of the equation and get into the ...more
Advertising
Post to Comment/Trackback Ratio
5th of February 2006 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Post to Comment/Trackback Ratio

Peter from pc4media has posted asking readers what their Post to Comment/Trackback Ratio? is. Peter’s PCTR (did I just make up a new acronym?) is 0.75 if he doesn’t include trackbacks and 0.66 if he does. Here’s his calculations: ‘1694/2245 = 0.75 (My old methodology.) 1694/ (2245+ 339) = 0.66 ...more
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