Are You a Music Blogger?
17th of May 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Are You a Music Blogger?

If you’re a blogger with a passion for music then the team over at b5media are keen to chat to you about the launch of our new b5media Music Channel. These are paid positions and we’re looking for bloggers to help us start new blogs. There are a large variety ...more
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Blog Bash Postponed – But ProBlogger Meetup to Happen
17th of May 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blog Bash Postponed – But ProBlogger Meetup to Happen

I’m sad to say that the b5media/ProBlogger NY Blog Bash event that was planned for 9 June has been postponed. The issue was not the level of interest from those wanting to attend (I’m confident that we’d have come close to selling out looking at the expressions interest we received ...more
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Speedlinking – 17 May 2007
17th of May 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Speedlinking – 17 May 2007

WordPress 2.2 is available for download Download and as always Aaron Brazell is releasing his article – the 10 Things you should know about WordPress 2.2. Gili has written a pretty detailed model (and calculator) for valuing blogging ventures – my own philosophy is that a blog is worth what ...more
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A Secret to My Productivity Success
17th of May 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

A Secret to My Productivity Success

One of the little tricks that I use every morning when I first log onto my computer that gets me off to a flying start is to open up my ‘StartUp Folder’ on Firefox. This is a bookmark folder that contains 15 or so key sites that quickly give me ...more
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Speedlinking – 16 May 2007
16th of May 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Speedlinking – 16 May 2007

Des asks – You’re a Nice Looking Blog – Who Owns You? – anonymous blogging anyone? Mani shares their 5 top mistakes when they started blogging (I think I could write a 50 part post on that topic :-) ) Daniel shares his Top 10 Underrated WordPress Plugin Chitika’s posted ...more
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How Not to become a Grumpy Old Blogger
16th of May 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How Not to become a Grumpy Old Blogger

Comment Spam, Trolls in Comments, Servers Crashing, Personal Attacks in Posts, Getting Hacked, Public Critique…. While there’s a lot of positive things to be said for blogging – there are also days where blogging can all get a little too much and get even the most positive of bloggers down. ...more
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Copywriting Contest – $10,000 in Prizes Up for Grabs
15th of May 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Copywriting Contest – $10,000 in Prizes Up for Grabs

Brian at Copyblogger has just announced a cool group copywriting project which I’m sure many of you will enjoy competing in. It’s all about creating irresistible offers using landing pages. There are $10,000 in prizes up for grabs and it will be a judged competition (I’m one of the judges ...more
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LineBuzz – Inline Comments
15th of May 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

LineBuzz – Inline Comments

LineBuzz is a new commenting solution for blogs that has got me a little curious. The concept is pretty simple – it allows your readers to comment on specific parts of your blog post by highlighting any text that you’ve written. It’s probably best to learn about it by seeing ...more
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Reflections on the Group Writing Project
15th of May 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Reflections on the Group Writing Project

A few people have been asking me to write a post summarizing the benefits of running last week’s ‘Top 5’ group writing project (GWP). I’d summarize it as being worth doing in five main areas (and will add a few ‘costs’ of doing it below also): 1. Participation The main ...more
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