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Every few days someone asks me when I’m going to do another ‘poll of the week’. The reason I’ve not done any is that the plugin I was using to run them had some security problems and I was waiting for an update. This has recently come through so I’ve ...more

“English cricketer Jim Young, 57, carried on batting after a heart attack at the crease in Buntingford, Hertfordshire. He scored another 12 for his village team despite crushing chest pains. He collapsed to his knees and was taken off but went back after a glass of water and scored four ...more

Mark Styles has posted over at Weblog Tools a post on CAPTCHAs (wikipedia’s page on them here) which makes some good points about why they might not be the best solution for stopping comment spam on a blog. Here’s a few of his main points: Any extra work required to ...more

Clickz reports on the latest stats of online spending this holiday season. Spending online is up 24% (with last month totaling $11.75 billion) on last year and traffic is up 13% (it seems people are buying more per visit this year). Obviously those taking the majority of this income are ...more

Searching for a topic for a new blog? One approach is to look at what people are searching the web for and Yahoo! has helped out today by providing us all with a series of Top Ten Lists of 2006 in different categories. Of course there are only so many ...more

Two announcements are echoing around the blogosphere today: Jason Calacanis today announced he’s taken up a new job after leaving AOL Entrepreneur in Action (EIA) at Sequoia Capital. The Blog Herald’s new owners have been announced as a network called the Bloggy Network Ltd – not to be confused with ...more

I am regularly asked how I started blogging and whether I’ve always been into making money from them. My first entry into blogging around four years ago was on a free blogspot blog which was largely a personal blog in which I reflected upon many aspects of life including spirituality, ...more

Creating Passionate Users has a great post on building community which I think can be applied to building community around a blog. “The best way to grow a user community is to get even the beginners to start answering questions. The more they become involved, the more likely they are ...more

Have you ever wanted to test out AdWords to promote your blog? Google are currently running a promotion where you get a $50 Ad coupon when you sign up here. thanks to Jaro for the tip via email.