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28 million (or more) blogs are about to be given the opportunity to blog for money with the latest updates to MSN Spaces says eweek. The latest MSN Spaces update covers a number of areas as well as the option to run ads with Amazon and Kanoodle. That’s a lot ...more

Two important posts over at Jensense today (why news break every time I go away): 1. Google AdSense begins rich media beta test – very interesting news. Google are going beyond just text ads and are testing a variety of other types of ads including interstitial (I’m not a fan ...more

I’m just back from 24 hours away to escape the heat which Melbourne has been having (it’s been in the 40’s a bit this week – with lots of bush fires around our state adding a slight smokey smell to everythng). We stayed with the in-laws (who have air-conditioning) which ...more

Lots of webmasters are reporting changes with Google referral levels this week. Many believe it’s not a new update but a rolling out of changes already made in one or two datacenters. If you’re into tracking Google changes you can try make sense of it at the WMW discussion at ...more

Yesterday one of the bloggers on our b5media discussion forum asked for the rest of our opinions on how its best to display your name on a blog. The discussion was interesting with a variety of approaches put forward. Some bloggers preferred their first and surname, others a nick name ...more

I’ve been toying with writing this post for a number of weeks now after reading a number of posts on the death of Search Engine Optimization for Bloggers. Nick over at Performancing kicked it off (at least it was the first one I’d read for a while) with Why Bloggers ...more

b5media’s blogs have come to a standstill today. No its not server problems and no our bloggers have not started a mutiny. No it’s much more evil and sinister than that. In our private bloggers internal bloggers communications one of our bloggers, Jesse, introduced everyone to Escapa! Before you visit ...more

Evan Schaeffer posted a good list of blog resolutions back on 2 January that I only just spotted (via LexBlog). In it Evan gives 10 resolutions with quite a few good sub points under many of them. The only resolution I’d add to the list is ‘don’t post such a ...more

Rachel just pinged me on IM to let me know of post she’s just writtten which I really wish she’d written a year ago. It’s about a WP Plugin called WordPress FeedBurner Plugin which makes your Feedburner RSS feed (if you have one) the one that is autodiscovered by feedreaders ...more