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Compete – SnapShot is a tool that I’m sure some bloggers will find useful in their analysis of how their blog compares with others. Yes I know – it’s not cool to analyze your own stats too much but most of us do it from time to time on sites ...more

Mark Boulton is running a helpful series on Five Simple Steps to Designing With Colour which those of us who are ‘design-challenged’ might find helpful. He’s written two posts so far at here and here. Mark is also putting together a book called Five Simple Steps – Designing for the ...more

Voting is open for the $5000 Blogging Scholarship. There are some good bloggers in the list but after a bit of consideration I went with Paul Stamatiou (who I’m a regular reader of and admire as a blogger). It is a bit of a difficult one actually as there is ...more

A few weeks back I wrote a post titled 10 techniques to get more comments on your blog which got a bit of attention around the web after doing well on Digg. As usual – the comments that a post gets when it is featured highly on Digg were mixed ...more

One of the more recent additions to my RSS feed is more minimal – a blog about… minimalism. One of the latest posts on it relates to blogging – five ways to make your blog more readable. focus your content reduce the amount of text on your page stick with ...more

Google has continued to integrate blogs into their news site by extending their ‘Alerts’ service (that emails you any time any site in their new index writes on a particular keyword) to cover blogs also. This is very cool (I should say that the ‘idea’ is cool – I’m yet ...more

I’m back from our few days away. Thanks to everyone for your well wishes for our little break. It was a nice time away although we had some pretty below average weather and I’ve come back with the flu unfortunately. I hope you enjoyed the mini-archives series that I ran ...more

One of the simplest and yet most effective tips that I’ve got hidden away in my archives is one reflecting upon Product and Brand Names being the Best Keywords. The study that I linked to that stimulated the post is no longer live but luckily I took a quote from ...more

A friendly public service announcement for those engaging in global communications…. Daylight Savings started here in most parts of Australia over the weekend. I’m told it also ended in many parts of the northern hemisphere. While it signals the start of summer to us Aussies I generally find that over ...more